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News: Squarepusher’s thrilling, insane ‘Feed Me Weird Things’ gets a silver jubilee reissue; revel in the deep acid of ‘Theme From Ernest Borgnine’
NOW THIS … this is sexy news for the lover of the weird and the wired and the warped (and, serendipitously, the Warp). Squarepusher’s hyperactive, insane, thrilling debut album for Warp, Feed Me Weird Things, is to get a 25th (what now?) anniversary reissue on June 4th. Stand back, light the touchpaper. Not only will …
See: Helvetia – ‘New Mess’: Duster and Built to Spill’s Jason Albertini makes a righteous fuzz racket with an album to follow
TIME to get dirty and righteously fuzz-rocky, with a Swiss angle; Helvetia is the solo project of multi-instrumentalist Jason Albertini, exactly one third of San Jose’s Duster and bassist for the lovely Built to Spill from 2012 to 2018. Helvetia are releasing their tenth album and fifth for Joyful Noise, Essential Aliens on June 25th; by way of bringing that news to …
Track: Dave Keuning – ‘The Fountain’: The Killers’ guitarist readies to spread his wings with a second solo album – hear a cracking first track
SPREADING his creative wings for a second time following 2019’s surnamed-only outing Prismism, The Killers guitarist and founding member Dave Keuning is due to release a long-player, A Mild Case of Everything, via his own Pretty Faithful Records imprint come midsummer. due out 25th June on his label, Pretty Faithful Records. A Mild Case of Everything comprises 16 …
Track: Birmingham’s The Novus serves out a vituperative challenge to orthodoxy with the brilliant ‘I Serve Not’ and announce new EP ‘Thaleia Standing’
‘I Serve Not’ is The Novus waving two fingers at the establishment in a visceral, thundering explosion of a track that draws in the anger and violence of Nine Inch Nails with a punk rock sneer and lyrical acidity. It is an utterly cathartic attack on today’s selfish society – on those in power that …
News: Late seventies Sydney punk legends Lipstick Killers to get definitive anthology release through Grown Up Wrong! Records
The Lipstick Killers have a special place in the late seventies music scene – a brash attitude laden band that inspired many, but had a chequered career of their own. They were an integral part of the late ‘70s post-Radio Birdman Sydney indie scene before gigging with the likes of the Gun Club and the …
Say Psych: News: A Place to Bury Strangers announce new line up, new EP and share new track End of the Night
Brooklyn’s A Place To Bury Strangers announce their new EP, Hologram, will be released on 16th July on founding member Oliver Ackermann’s label Dedstrange. Hologram is the anticipated follow-up to 2018’s Pinned and will be capped by a world tour in early 2022. In 2003, A Place To Bury Strangers emerged on the scene out of Ackermann’s psychotropic …
Say Psych: News: Manchester Psych Fest reveals full line up for 2021
Manchester Psych Fest has today revealed the full line up for its return on 4 September 2021. It includes Malian rebel rockers Tinariwen as co-headliners with Stereolab, feted post-punk outfit Dry Cleaning, afrobeat eight-piece Kokoroko and Japanese psych veterans Kikagaku Moyo. Elsewhere on the bill Billy Nomates, Porridge Radio, Jadu Heart, Crack Cloud, Pins, Los Bitchos and The Mysterines join a mighty bill that already features Stealing Sheep, …
News: Kevin Richard Martin of The Bug returns with a June rescoring of Tarkovsky’s ‘Solaris’; hear a taster, ‘In Love With A Ghost’
WORKING with huge acclaim in the shadowier textures of electronic music now for longer than we care to recall, Kevin Richard Martin – aka The Bug, King Midas Sound, Techno Animal – has composed a new score for Andrei Tarkovsky’s incredible 1972 sci-fi Solaris, which will be released on Phantom Limb on June 25th. Based …
Track: The Goa Express take off with the shimmering track ‘Second Time’ and announces tour
Last year, The Goa Express released a gorgeous track ‘Be My Friend’ – a shouty, slightly snotty and utterly endearing post-punk blast of energy – and this year follow up with a shimmering and melodic ‘Second Time’. This is classic indie pop – jangling, sparkling guitars and an air of wistfulness. Again mixed by the …
Track: The legendary The Scientists blast back into the universe with ‘Outsider’ and album news.
It’s been a long time between drinks, but the legendary The Scientists are back with a blistering new single and news of their first album in 35 years, ‘Negativity’, due out in June 2021 through In The Red Records. The line up consists of singer-guitarist Kim Salmon, lead guitarist Tony Thewlis, bassist Boris Sujdovic and …