US alt – Backseat Mafia

See: Midlake drop a live performance video for ‘Meanwhile …’ – they’re back with tour dates and an album for Bella Union in March

IT WAS a real boon for lovers of expansive, harmonic, suede-jacketed Americana back in October when Denton, Texas’s Midlake announced they were reconvening for their first album in jeez, nine…

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See: koleżanka takes empathetic flight with the lush, modular indie of ‘In A Meeting’

KRISTINA MOORE it is who guises as koleżanka for her particular lusciously free, electronica- and folksily informed guitar music; and the New York-via-deepest Arizona songstress will surely be tempting her…

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See: Helvetia ask ‘Does It Go Backwards’ through your TV screen in gentle, plaintive lo-fi

HELVETIA is the current musical doings of fine lo-fi songsmith Jason Albertini, otherwise known to your American alt.rock-lovin’ ears as precisely 33% of San Jose’s Duster; and time spent wisely as bassist…

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Album review: Lou Barlow – ‘Reason To Live’: a crisp Americana homecoming that reveals its beauties slowly

NOTHING less than absolute royalty of the US alt.rock scene, Lou Barlow, formerly of Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh and Sentridoh, The Folk Implosion, is set to grace our ears with his…

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See: Lou Barlow – ‘Into My Arms’: Lou welcomes you into his warm, lo-fi embrace; it’s good to be back

AN ABSOLUTE statesman of the American alt.rock scene, whose easy and innate way with a tune has led us forward from Dinosaur Jr. through Sebadoh (I mean, m’lud: “Flame”? Case…

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See: Helvetia – ‘Rocks On The Ramp’: a lo-fi basement shuffle sidles into your affections

HELVETIA – besides being the female national symbol of the Swiss, we’ll leave that aside for now, is the latest musical doings of Jason Albertini, otherwise known to your American…

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Premiere: The Ricos – ‘What Comes Next?’: Philly’s excellent indie four-piece drop a video for their righteous noise-pop single

PHILADELPHIA indie outfit The Ricos, whose Spirit State EP we adored last year in the heights of lockdown summer, have put together a video for their cracking single, “What Comes…

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See: The lyric video for the cosmic Americana pop drop of Lou Barlow’s ‘Love Intervene’

WITH a first solo album in nigh on six years just cusping the horizon – it’s called Reason to Live, it’ll be out at the end of the month on Joyful Noise Recordings,…

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See: Helvetia – ‘New Mess’: Duster and Built to Spill’s Jason Albertini makes a righteous fuzz racket with an album to follow

TIME to get dirty and righteously fuzz-rocky, with a Swiss angle; Helvetia is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Jason Albertini, exactly one third of San Jose’s Duster and bassist for the lovely Built to Spill from…

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News: Lou Barlow set for a solo album in late May; see the video for ‘Over You’

NOTHING less than absolute royalty of the US alt.rock scene, Lou Barlow, formerly of Dinosaur Jr., Sebadoh and Sentridoh, The Folk Implosion, is set to grace our ears with his…

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