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News: Hear a first track as Field Works announce a companion to the arboreally beautiful ‘Cedars’ entitled ‘Maples, Ash, And Oaks: Cedars Instrumentals’
BACK in spring we both reviewed and adored an album from Field Works: less a band, more a collective exploration of the various musics that cross over and find each other out on the edges of their respective stylistic disciplines, fuse, enter the wider sphere of the ambient, all overseen by Indianapolis multidisciplinary artist and …
See: Adelaide’s Teenage Joans release a dynamic video for the effervescent single ‘Wine’, and announce Australian tour
Adelaide duo Teenage Joans mix a hard edge guitar drive with scaling choruses and exuberant melodies in their single ‘Wine’. Steeped in an unashamed Australian accent expressed through vocals that range from emotive, whiskey-soaked rawness to celestial heights, ‘Wine’ is a satisfying mix of grunge and sixties pop sensibilities with lyrics that reflect youth and …
See: Chris Liebing propels you into the quietly epic, dancefloor mantra of ‘Something Half Way’ – he’s also playing a string of dates across Europe
ONE OF the founding fathers of the techno scene in financial hub of Frankfurt, Chris Liebing, is blazing a trail towards the release of his first album in more than three years for Mute this November with a second single drop, “Something Half Way”, which we’ve got for you below. A chattering, clicking, supremely textural …
News: As Coventry assumes the mantle of City of Culture, The Pop Group and Dennis Bovell are confirmed for a July live premiere of ‘Y Dub’, with a Mute release following
THE CRADLE of Two Tone, Coventry, is busy donning its finery as it assumes the mantle of UK City of Culture 2021; and none other than Terry Hall himself is bringing a series of great gigs to the city entitled Terry Hall Presents At Home Sessions. And one of the most eye-opening bills during the …
News: Colin Moulding (XTC) announces release of his first solo CD – the delightfully pastoral pop of ‘The Hardest Battle’
It’s been over 3 years since ex XTC singer/bass player Colin Moulding teamed up with ex-XTC drummer Terry Chambers under the moniker TC&I to record the brilliant EP ‘Great Aspirations’ and the follow up live album ‘Naked Flames: Live at Swindon Arts Centre’. I interviewed Colin back in 2018 about his return to music – …
Track: The exultant sounds of Eilish Gilligan return in ‘Get Well Soon’ as she announces new EP ‘First One To Leave The Party’ and launch dates.
Melbourne-based multi-talented artist Eilish Gilligan‘s collaborations continue, this time with Gab Strum (Japanese Wallpaper) and Lach Bostock (Mansionair), in her gorgeous new track ‘Get Well Soon’. Gilligan’s new material is a bright and shining beacon when all else around is dark (see our review of May single ‘Up All Night’), and ‘Get Well Soon’ has a …
News: Halestorm Announce Special ‘An Evening With’ Tour Dates
Hot on the heels of announcing their Nov/Dec 2021 US touring extravaganza with Evanescence, US rockers Halestorm are delighted to confirm new tour plans for the UK/Europe in Feb/Mar 2022. The shows will be “An Evening With…” performance in smaller than usual venues, making the band’s patiently awaited return to the stage an intimate and special experience, …
News: Metallica Celebrate The 30th Anniversary Of The Black Album; Hear Miley Cyrus’s Version Of Nothing Else Matters
Metallica marks the 30th anniversary of its self-titled fifth album — a/k/a The Black Album — with two landmark releases, both out September 10th on the band’s own Blackened Recordings: Watch the trailer, below: The Black Album is one of the most commercially successful and critically acclaimed records of all time. Its 1991 release not …
News: Sarah Davachi announces an autumn album, ‘Antiphonals’; hear a first track, ‘Rushes Recede’
WHAT is a drone? Over the last decade it’s become a word associated with surveillance, voyeurism, secrecy, stealth and those tired sweeping aerial shots that plague every other film that blasts onto our screens. So maybe we need our sonic explorers and sound adventurers to remind us of the drone’s real roots, the powerful hypnotic …
News: Manchester’s legendary Band on the Wall launches a singles club with the lush future soul of Mali Hayes’ ‘Forgive You’
A VENUE legendary across the North-West, with bands gracing its hallowed boards at least since a stage was installed 90 or so years ago (when it was The George & Dragon), Band on the Wall, up at the top of the Northern Quarter, is branching out with its own label, launching a singles club next …