Meet: The Clockworks on recording at Abbey Road studios, getting a manager during a pandemic, and that support slot with the Pixies in the USA…..
The Clockworks headlined a gig as part of Independent Venue Week at The Factory in Worthing on 2 Feb 2022 supported by Cheap Teeth and Niches. During that set they played 5 singles and a staggering 10 more tracks which were new for the audience. It’s been six months since previous single ‘Throw It All …
TRACK: Baba Ali release new single ‘Black & Blue’ via Yard Act’s Zen F.C. label, the first non-Yard Act release.
Baba Ali have released new single ‘Black & Blue‘ via Yard Act‘s Zen F.C. label. This is from their double A-side ‘Living It Up’ / Black & Blue‘. It is a synth-laden track of heavy electronica, full of beats and with a slightly distorted vocal creating a dancefloor friendly clanking industrial soundscape. Baba Ali are …
Track: Fontaines D.C. release new single ‘I Love You’, the second from forthcoming album Skinty Fia due out on 22 April
Fontaines D.C. have released ‘I Love You‘, the second single to be taken from their forthcoming album Skinty Fia which will be released on 22 April via Partisan Records. The band continue to follow their own path. Rather than return to the frantic energy of debut album Dogrel, here we have a track full of …
Live Review: The Clockworks / Cheap Teeth / Niches (IVW)- The Factory, Worthing 02.02.2022 plus gallery
What an absolute joy to see gigs back up and down the country to celebrate Independent Venue Week for 2022. I travelled to The Factory in Worthing to see The Clockworks supported by Cheap Teeth and Niches. This is grassroots, and perhaps in one of the more unlikely music venue locations. With Brighton just down …
SEE: Wallis Bird releases video for current single ‘What’s Wrong with Changing?’
Irish born and Berlin based Wallis Bird has released a video for her current single ‘What’s Wrong with Changing?’, the first track to be taken from her forthcoming album Hands due out on 27th May 2022.Whoever is the editor of the video deserves a massive round of applause! The idea to chop and change various characters …
Live Review: Smoove and Turrell / Vandebilt – Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh 29.01.2022
So here we are at last – the long awaited album launch show for Stratos Bleu released June 2020 on Jalapenos Records. Smoove and Turrell returned to the Voodoo Rooms in Edinburgh after a stomping gig in 2018. It’s quite rightly a sold out show although the current circumstances mean the room is not full …
Track: NOBRO release the glorious garage punk of Bye Bye Baby
This is EXACTLY what is need to blast away any January blues. Canada’s NOBRO have released new single ‘Bye Bye Baby‘ which is taken from their forthcoming EP Live Your Truth Shred Some Gnar scheduled for release on 23 February 2022 via Big Scary Monsters. Goodness this is glorious garage rock with a twist of punk. Full throttle …
See: Lady Bird release video for single Bludsuckers
Kent punks Lady Bird have released a video for their latest single ‘Bludsuckers’, the final preview before the release of their debut album WE set for release 25 February via Alcopop! Records. Lady Bird is Don Bird (vocals/guitar/organ), Alex Deadman (guitar), Joe Walker (drums) and discussing the video, the band explained: “You know how it is… Creativity works in mysterious ways. right? Mother in law inspires song, Bludsuckers becomes its …
TRACK: Bodega release new single, Thrown, along with lyric video
Bodega have released new single ‘Thrown‘ ahead of the album Broken Equipment set for release on 11 March via What’s Your Rupture? The accompanying lyric video targets the 21st century’s constant productivity/positivity cycle. ‘Thrown’ has that recognisable driving rhythm that Bodega do so well. Part punk, park art-rock it is angular and sharp with the …
Track: Sprints release new single ‘Little Fix’
Sprints have released new track ‘Little Fix’ taken from their upcoming EP A Modern Job, which is out 11th March 2022 on Nice Swan Records. The Dublin band who have been quoted on a number of Ones To Watch lists for 2022 open their account for the year with this banger. Explosive and instantly attention grabbing Sprints continue to create energising music blending the …