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SEE: The lyric video for Drive-By Truckers’ ‘Tough To Let Go’
IT’S AN album that came out of nowhere; Drive-By Truckers’ The New OK grew from a lockdown EP, something to occupy crack musicians after their last album, The Unraveling, collecting together some pretty powerful odds and ends from those Memphis sessions, including a fiery ‘n’ fun run-through Ramones’ “The KKK Took My Baby Away” as …
SEE: New Bums – ‘Tuned To Graffiti’: insouciant, folksy beauty trails for March album
NEW BUMS is the freewheelin’ two-hander of two very fine songwriters in their own right: Ben Chasny, aka psychotropic voyaging genius Six Organs of Admittance; and Donovan Quinn, formerly of the truly lovely and cultist Jagjaguwar baroque-psych-folk outfit Skygreen Leopards. They’ve got together before, almost seven years back, for the loose ‘n’ lovely Voices In …
SEE: Kalbells – ‘Purplepink’: cosmic psychedelic disco to the max
KALBELLS are one of those fun, creative side gigs, an adjunct to another band which, having animated with the spark of lifeforce, has gained a vitality all of its own. The band was conceived as a little place for Kalmia Traver to shake a solo thang, outside of the cute-as, lo-fi Brooklyn pop outfit Rubblebucket …
SEE: Cory Hanson – ‘Angeles’: mellow LA country-psych with the darkest heart
BY DAY Cory Hanson is singer-guitarist with LA psych quintet Wand, but he also pursues a rather seductive solo vision: a very LA blur of blissful, rootsy psych, part-Laurel Canyon, part-peyote in the deserts out past city limits. He’s got only his second full-length solo outing, Pale Horse Rider, due for release on Drag City …
SEE: The lyric video for Counterpunch’s ‘Handbook For The Recently Debriefed’
ILLINOIS skatepunks Counterpunch are ready to acid drop into the new year with a new single – yay! It’s coming out on 7″, so that’s a proper single in my book – entitled “Handbook For The Recently Debriefed.” Even better? They’ve put together a little lyric video for the track, which we’re more than a …
PREMIERE: The Ricos – ‘What Comes Next?’: the big question posed as a righteous noise-pop surge
RISING Philadelphia indie outfit The Ricos, who we last touched base with on these pages when we took a look at and really, really liked their Spirit State EP back in high summer, are back with a cracker of a new single, “What Comes Next?” which they’re releasing this Bandcamp Friday. We’re delighted to be …
SEE: The video for Fleet Foxes’ ‘Can I Believe You’, from their surprise fourth
IT CAME as a surprise to most when, on last month’s autumn equinox, Fleet Foxes suddenly unveiled their new album, Shore. It’s full of the same wonderful, ethereal and warm folk harmonies we’ve come to expect from them across their 14-year recording career, a career that’s featured such breathless peaks as Helplessness Blues. Do you …
NEWS: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah announce new album and tour dates; hear ‘Hesitating Nation’ and ‘Thousand Oaks’
ALEC OUNSWORTH’S superb guitar pop outfit Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are excited to announce a new album for the new year: it’s to be entitled New Fragility, and it’ll be hitting the racks on January 29th. And to ring in the announcement, they’ve released a double A-side: “Hesitating Nation” and “Thousand Oaks”. Do you know what, we …
TRACK: Dope Body – ‘Mutant Being’: they’re ready to hurt those guitars, bwoy
BALTIMORE’S Dope Body are so back; they’re so ready for this and they need to make their guitars howwwwl. They’ve dropped anudda new track to usher you towards the noise explosion of their comeback LP, Crack A Light, which is only three weeks away now … T minus … “Mutant Being”, the beast in question, …