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Track: The shimmering Salarymen are back with their effervescent new single ‘All In Vain’ and tour news.
Sydney duo Salarymen have about them a sixties-infused sparkle that recollects artists like St Etienne and Lily Allen – bright and effervescent pop that seem to emit a healthy glow while touched with that essential pop ingredient: a sprinkle of melancholia. Their new single ‘All In Vain’ contains all these essential parts: it is a …
News: Behemoth Extend Playback Of Anniversary ‘XXX Years Ov Blasphemy’ Global Livestream Moment; Until Sunday 7th November
On Halloween (Sun 31st Oct), Polish heretics BEHEMOTH raised their own livestream bar with the premiere of their second streaming spectacle, ‘XXX Years Ov Blasphemy’, hosted by the premium social live media platform, Moment House. The event marked their 30th Anniversary with three separate sets in three amazing locations, commemorating the band’s three decades making music and …
News: Mysterious Bristol breaks scientist Claude Cooper announces a full album for January and drops ‘Stan’s Plan’; it’s so deliciously dirty
IMAGINE for a second we’re sat in a great pub, in Bristol – say The Christmas Steps, maybe, or the Bag O’Nails – and let’s further push the fanciful that I’m Brad Pitt-as-Tyler Durden (yep, I wholly over-flatter myself here, but a scribe can dream); and I lean over, conspiratorially, to whisper to you. And …
News: Penelope Isles’ second glorious album for Bella Union arrives this week – there’s an extensive UK tour, too
PENELOPE ISLES, the gorgeous Brighton via Cornwall and Isle of Man combo led by brother and sister Jack and Lily Wolter, have some rather excellent news for lovers of bright, nuanced shoegazey guitar pop; their second album, Which Way To Happy is out digitally this Friday, November 5th, with CD and cassette formats also up …
News: The Enemy announce 2022 reunion tour dates
Oh, 2007 was a year. Especially for The Enemy, who blasted out of Coventry to become one of the biggest new bands in the country, with their debut album ‘We’ll live and die in these towns’ going straight to number one, and be certified platinum. Across another two top ten albums, a couple of top …
News: Riverside Celebrate Their 20th Anniversary With A special New Song Entitled ‘Story of My Dream’
Polish rock masters RIVERSIDE are celebrating their 20th band-anniversary in 2021 and have decided to record a very special new song entitled “Story of My Dream” to enhance the celebration. RIVERSIDE’s Mariusz Duda checked in to comment about the new track as follows: “Story of My Dream” is a composition prepared especially for our 20th …
News: Death Angel Announce The Release Of A New Live Record Titled The Bastard Tracks; See Video for The First Single
Bay Area thrash legends Death Angel have announced plans to release a new live record titled The Bastard Tracks on Black Friday, November 26th via Nuclear Blast. Recorded live at The Great American Music Hall in their hometown of San Francisco on May 22nd 2021, and streamed live soon after, The Bastard Tracks is a deep cuts collection of rarely and never performed songs from …
News: Russian house revivalists ‘Love Object’ announce debut album ‘New Flesh’ coming in December via Italians Do It Better: Watch video for single ‘The Kill’
Love Object were first introduced to the world on Italians Do It Better’s After Dark 3 compilation, via their pulsating EBM/disco single Holodnoe Solnce. Now they return to deliver yet another assault from the electro underground, sharing lead single and video for The Kill, as well as news of debut album New Flesh out on …
Track: Nova Scotia’s Century Egg pick themselves up and dust themselves down with the cutesy-punk thrash of ‘Moving On’
COMIN’ atcha out of Halifax, Nova Scotia, garage punksters Century Egg would have absolutely no qualms about leaving you for dead if you so much as cross ’em on the strength of this latest fizzin’ nugget, which they’ve dropped today. Boy/girl vocals, dirty devil-may-care guitars and a ‘Yep, I definitely so will survive’ lyrical self-pride …
News: She Drew The Gun announces February 2022 Panopticon tour dates
On the back of the release of her much lauded album ‘Behave Myself’, singer-songwriter Louisa Roach aka She Drew The Gun has announced a new UK tour, named the Panopticon tour, that will take place in February next year. It will be a chance for her fans to see her notoriously powerful and affecting live …