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Premiere: Golden Fang – Don’t Take Your God To Town
We are delighted to premiere the blistering new single from Sydney band Golden Fang – a cool, rumbling track imbued with swagger and attitude and a wall of tasty guitars. And a great pop sensibility. Golden Fang have the essential ingredients for delivering gritty and passionate music as well as an insouciance and attitude that …
TRACK: The Seshen – ‘Still Dreaming’: luscious future beats
SAN FRAN area septet The Seshen have been nothing if not productive this year. They released their third album, Cyan, earlier this year with Brighton’s eclectic beat hounds Tru Thoughts. They’ve since taken three singles from Cyan: the crisp soul electro of “Dive”, the beautiful acoustic grace of “Don’t Answer” and cool breaks torchsong “Take …
Track: Cucamaras – Keep It Cool
With a buzz saw drive and the most louche sardonic vocals you could hear, Cucumara‘s new single ‘Keep It Cool’ is the very definition of cool. Imbued with a healthy self-deprecating sense of humor in the wry lyrics, delivered in an urgent studied style with tongue firmly planted in cheek, Cucamaras have a delectable swagger …
Track: Isle of Wight beach punks REMINDERS share new single ‘Seaside Scampi’
Isle of Wight beach punks Reminders are back with a pre lock down demo song that was sitting around gathering dust, due to the lack of togetherness that bands normally require to feed the artistic hunger, they have blown the dust away and worked their magic on a track that now gets it’s pride of …
TRACK: William Shatner and Canned Heat decide: ‘Let’s Work Together’
AND now he’s back. From outer space. The rebellious re-interpreter of “Mr Tambourine Man” and “Lucy in the Sky in Diamonds” on his album, The Transformed Man, in 1968. Brilliant bewitcher and bemuser of lyricist Bernie Taupin at the 1978 Science Fiction Film Awards in his theatrical, declamatory, absolutely seminal take on “Rocket Man”. And …
TRACK: Bill Callahan makes it a Monday quartet with ‘Protest Song’
BILL CALLAHAN’S ongoing Monday afternoon pledge to gift us a song from his September Gold Record reached its fourth instalment today, with the downhome and evocative porchside “Protest Song”. Today’s is a bluesy, spontaneous and raggy fragment, with the meta-theme of being a protest song about a protest song on the television. “Somebody must stop …
TRACK: IYEARA bring the darkwave to Mark Lanegan’s ‘Playing Nero’
IF THERE’S any musician out there currently writing and recording who you can say has absolutely lived it, that accolade must surely go to former Screaming Trees man Mark Lanegan. His gravelly, seductive voice graces a body of work that never ceases to explore and which expands steadily. And the latest chapter in Lanegan’s oeuvre …
TRACK: Mary Lattimore – ‘Sometimes He’s In My Dreams’: ethereal delicacy with Slowdive’s Neil
IT’S a collaboration to make any lover of ethereal soundscapery’s mouth water. Last heard of, solo, with her luscious Hundreds of Days set back in 2018, Los Angeleno harpist Mary Lattimore has been busy recording a new album in Cornwall – under the aegis of longtime Kernow resident, Slowdive’s Neil Halstead. Her new album, Silver …
TRACK: Nick Faber – ‘Soon You’ll Be Mine’: bringing back the bayou
SOMETIMES inspiration hits in the most unexpected circumstances: a chance trigger, if you will, that sets you on a new course. And so it was with Fabyl and Appleseed Cast man Nick Faber who, off on a deep vinyl crate-diggin’ session across Florida, came across an unknown and weatherbeaten busker, his music macerated in deep …
TRACK: Fair Mothers’ ‘Monochrome’ is unflinching, stark and so beautiful
YOU’LL never be able to accuse Kevin Allan, the creative force behind Scottish folk outfit Fair Mothers, of dashing off a quick, vapid pop hit for the lulz. That isn’t to say he isn’t capable – the musicianship he presents is deep and adept; but whereas for some music is a career, for Kevin, it’s …