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Premiere: Michael Ian Cummings of SKATERS returns with ‘Contemporary Me’
If you were a fan of New Yorkers SKATERS, you’ll probably remember that they went from a major label deal to disappearing after the release of their second album within 5 years, chewed up and spat out during a transitional period for the wider music industry. Band leader Michael Ian Cummings has been off radar …
Premiere: The Mortal Prophets return with title track from new album ‘Deeley Plaza Blues’
Toward the end of last year, the John Beckmann-fronted New York band The Mortal Prophets released their debut album Me and the Devil, and you would have expected them to slow down a little bit after that but that isn’t the case at all. Just a month later, Beckmann released a solo piano record, which …
Premiere: Homeschool trails new EP with self-acceptance banger ‘My Only Enemy’
You may remember back in February when we premiered New Yorker Tom D’Agustino’s most recent single as Homeschool, ‘Bound to Be’. At the time, all we could say was there was more to come from them this year, with no indication of what form that might take. Well, it turns out there’s a new EP …
Premiere: Rose Haze stun with the epic sweep of ‘Slow Decay’
If you haven’t heard of Kate Ramsey before, you’ve got plenty to catch up on, but her new song as Rose Haze is a good place to start. In just the last year, she’s released both a full-band album called Maximum Security Prism and an atmospheric instrumental counterpart called Contemplations in the Desert. If you’re …
Premiere: Sunnsetter shares ‘The Whole World That Turns Around Itself’ with new album out today
The new record from Andrew McLeod has this hazy, perfectly timed early-springtime air about it. One part shoegaze and one part ambience, it’s all them. The Norfolk County, Ontario-based artist is also part of Zoon, but under his solo guise Sunnsetter makes music that’s a little more wistful, surprisingly meditative and prone to exploration. ‘The …
Premiere: Cary LaScala is ‘For Real’ a Solo Artist Now, Shares Debut as Bloody Bananas
You probably shouldn’t eat Bloody Bananas. Or beetroots for that matter. However, Cary LaScala’s needed a little extra time for his solo career under that name to ripen and now it’s ready to be picked. We’re all out of fruit metaphors so that means we can move on to the music. A Bay Area transplant, …
Premiere: Matteo DeBenedetti has trust issues on ‘sleeping’; debut album as Charlie & Margot out next month
Here’s another album for you to keep an ear out for next month: the debut album from New Jersey’s Charlie & Margot. The project is not made up of two people, it’s important to note; it’s a solo project from Matteo DeBenedetti, named after the two dogs belonging to him and his wife. A very …
Premiere: Camp Bedford set the past alight on empowering new song ‘Jupiter’
There’s still time to get on the Camp Bedford hype train before it leaves the station at the end of the month, and you better believe us when we say their new song is brilliant. The Brooklyn queer folk-pop trio blend elements of everything from the expected Americana and bluegrass to the maximalism of hyperpop …
Premiere: Sunnsetter lifts themselves out of a dark place on the shimmering ‘Surely Everything’s Alright’ ahead of new album next month
This is one of those songs you can get lost in, or pull around you for some extra warmth and feel fine for three-and-a-half minutes. This is new from Ontario’s Sunnsetter, and if warm, shoegazey textures are your kind of thing then you’re gonna love their new record. It’s a solo project from Andrew McLeod, …
PREMIERE: Grant Summerland doesn’t want to be a ‘Real Boy’, shares indie-punk scorcher ahead of new EP next month
Meet Grant Summerland. He’s been away for a little bit. OK, three years. That’s not important; what you need to know is that he’s back. The Californian had the bad fortune to release his debut album Bigfoot Museum the same week his home state shut down everything in the midst of an unfolding pandemic. You’d …