Music
Track: Silver Wilson – George Town
If your heart broke when Nottingham band Gorgeous Chans announced the end of their musical journey last month then fear not: Silver Wilson are here to pick up the pieces. Featuring three members of the recently disbanded group, Silver Wilson are here to pursue where the Gorgeous Chans left off; making exquisite indie music with an …
Track: Tuska – We could be alone
Brighton duo Tuska, aka Richard Sturgess & Rob Weaver announced their arrival with the scuzzy psych pop of Fine, and now their back to build on that success with a new track, We Could Be Alone, available for free download from March 11th. We Could be Alone continues along the path from their debut, a …
New Music: Malcolm Middleton – You & I, plus album news
Oh Malcolm Middleton – its been a while. Some seven years in fact, since his last (solo) album Waxing Gibbons. We’ve missed that poetry and prose, that wit and anger and charm and emotion, and for all the listening back over Arab Strap records its nice to have something new to get your teeth into, …
News: DIIV announce Spring European Tour
Brooklyn based shoegazers DIIV are gearing up to the release of their second album, Is The Is Are, a 17 song double album out this Friday (5th Feb) via Captured Tracks. Ahead of that, the follow up to critically acclaimed debut Oshin,they’ve announced a mammoth European tour this Spring taking in a handful of dates …
Track: Heron Oblivion – Your Hollows
Heron Oblivion are making it easy for us to love them with their new single Your Hollows. Although they’re a new band out of San Francisco, they boast members of Sic Alps, Six Organs of Admittance, Howlin’ Rain and Feral Ohms amongst others, as well as Meg Baird of Espers. Taken from their debut self-titled …
See: Steve Mason releases new video for “Planet Sizes”
In the past, former Beta Band frontman Steve Mason has been both crippled by both debt and depression, but it looks as though he might be in a better place right now with the forthcoming ‘Meet the Humans’ album out on February 26th via Double Six. Planet Sizes is the first track to be taken …
Album Review: Turbo Kid – Hard Times In The Wasteland
So last Friday night I watched one of the best low budget sci fi epics I’ve seen in a very long time. I think had I seen this movie when I was 10 years old I’d probably still look at it as a classic now. As it stands, this movie didn’t exist when I was 10. …
Say Psych: Album Review, TBWNIAS Live 2010 Dominion Tavern
If you are reading this chances are that you love genuinely independent music (not the sort that is passed off as independent by big corporations), and support bands, labels and others who love to promote music for music’s sake and not to feed a business machine. Part of this eco-system are countless numbers of radio …
News: Fatherson announce sophomore album ‘Open Book’
Scottish trio Fatherson have announced details of their new album Open Book, which will be released on 3rd June 2016. Their latest single ‘Lost Little Boys’ premiered on Huw Stephen’s Radio 1 programme this week, introducing fans to tales of friendship, growing up, and the band’s journey through the music industry. Fatherson have managed to …
Track: The KVB – In Deep, plus European tour dates
Out on March 11th via Geoff Barrows Invada label is the new studio album from London duo The KVB, aka Nicholas Wood & Kat Day. From it, the bands fifth LP since 2010, the pair have released a single, In Deep. Described by Wood as being about longing, “there is definitely a romantic undercurrent to …