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Track: Erin Rae glides into an album and tour in the new year on the psych-country of ‘Candy & Curry’
WITH a sweet, hook-laden but straighter country-pop number, “Modern Woman”, dropping last month, Nashville’s Erin Rae has revealed a more gossamer, delicate psych-folk side to her forthcoming third album in the lighter-than-air “Candy & Curry”, sprinkled with a little retro synth and possessed of a real Margo Guryan harmonic feel; you can swoon for that …
Track: Piel break out of LA with the sleek, filmic funk pop of ‘Custodian’
AFTER taking part in one of NPR’s essential Tiny Desk Concerts last week, which’ve hosted pretty much anyone who’s anyone in indie music, Los Angelino quartet Piel have released the elegant, dreamy, whisper of “Custodian”, which rolls forward on choppy funk guitars and finely-honed crescendos. To me it sounds like it could have come from …
News: New Zealand’s pop prodigy BENEE announces world tour for 2022 and releases exquisite shimmering single ‘Doesn’t Matter’
New Zealand pop sensation BENEE has just announced her first world tour since the pandemic struck, with forty shows scheduled in the northern hemisphere (Europe and the UK in April-May and North America in June) well as new and rescheduled shows on her New Zealand tour in February-March, followed by her return to Australia – for the …
See: North Carolina’s Owen FitzGerald invites you to his outsider country confessional, ‘Bismuth, The Last Gentleman’
HE’S a gentleman of the leftfield country music scene, is Durham, North Carolina’s Owen FitzGerald who, after appearing in the music world as Jokes&Jokes&Jokes awhile, has returned to his ‘government name’ – the name under which he snuck out two fine if lyrically troubled and akimbo albums digitally in 2015, Tight Gyre and Pointer. That …
News: Sweeping Promises sign for Sub Pop and bring you the post-punk stomp of ‘Pain Without A Touch’, reveal tour dates our side of the pond
SUB POP has made another fine addition to its roster with Sweeping Promises, who come extruding outta the campus town of Lawrence, Kansas with the post-punkery of “Pain Without A Touch” and a comprehensive British and European tour ready to roll. Listen to one and find out more about the other, below. Sweeping Promises is …
NEWS: Hiatus Kaiyote share enchantingly lit new video for single ‘And We Go Gentle’ + announce 2022 EU/UK tour
Hiatus Kaiyote have shared their intoxicating and captivating new video for the effortless groove that is And We Go Gentle, directed by frequent collaborator Jeremy Koren, aka Grey Ghost (Get Sun and Canopic Jar). The Melbourne-based group have also shared their 2022 EU/UK tour dates, which will begin in Berlin on 29 September and take …
News: Tears For Fears announce North American leg of The Tipping Point world tour 2022
Legendary UK synth-pop duo Tears for Fears have announced the North American leg of their Tipping Point World Tour in 2022, with Garbage in support. Kicking off in Cincinnati, OH on May 20th, the tour will see the band performing in over twenty cities across North America before capping off with their last show in Wantagh, …
See: LA’s Independent Project unveil Alison Clancy with the brooding, potent ‘Mutant Gifts – Live At St John’s’
SHE’S a multivalent creative force who moved from the mountains of California up to New York to pursue a creative life; but the potent, brooding and mantric gem that is Alison Clancy’s “Mutant Gifts – Live At St John’s” came about mainly as her then-day job went on hold thanks to that viral wrecking ball. …
Track: North Carolina’s Boulevards sings an addiction siren song in ‘Better Off Dead’ – an album follows in February
WE’RE born of the good earth, and thence shall we return. Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Mud to mud. It’s that thick, wet, good earth of home that keeps up a siren song to songwriter Jamil Rashad, who trades in and around the musical frontier posts as Boulevards; time and time again he leaves …
News: In Flames announce re-scheduled UK Tour Dates For March 2022
Swedish melodic metal giants In Flames are pleased to announce that they will be returning to our UK shores in March 2022, for a string of 9 re-scheduled tour dates! Support acts will be announced later. In Flames stated, “We’re excited to announce our return to the road in the UK! Tickets are available NOW.Previously purchased tickets will …