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See: Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever release playful video for ‘The Only One’ and announce tour news
With the magnificent album ‘Sideways to the New Italy‘ making Backseat Mafia’s top 50 albums for 2020 and my favourite 2020 music list from Australia and New Zealand, Rolling Blackouts Coastal Fever (RBCF) continue to sparkle with the release of a video from a track off the album and an announcement of a further gig …
News: PJ Harvey’s album ‘Stories from the city, stories from the sea’, gets a vinyl release along with a demos release
UMC/ Island will release the reissue of the vinyl of STORIES FROM THE CITY, STORIES FROM THE SEA, the fifth studio album by PJ Harvey, alongside a collection of unreleased demos which will be available on CD, vinyl and digital. All due 26 February Produced by PJ Harvey with Rob Ellis and Mick Harvey, and originally released …
PREMIERE: Ted Barnes and Sarah Johns Music Party – ‘Arrangements’: theatrical delicacy from returning Clayhill prodigal
YOU MAY or may not have been blessed enough to have swooned for Clayhill, the cruelly underrated trio who got lumped into the semi-trendy genre ‘The New Acoustic’ by the music press alongside the likes of Lowgold and Kings of Convenience, which definition did them a massive disservice. Seek ye their albums; for further evidence …
News: Cult of Luna reveals details for new EP, ‘The Raging River’ (featuring a guest appearance by Mark Lanegan)
Cult of Luna will release their new EP, entitled The Raging River due February 5th, via Red Creek (http://www.red-crk.com) – the band’s newly created record label. The EP will be physically distributed by Metal Blade Records (in North America) and Season of Mist (in Europe). Check out the track ‘Three Bridges’ we reviewed, here. Pre-order The Raging River now at: https://www.red-crk.com/ (limited …
News: COMATOSE – Debut album on the way!
Minnesota-based atmospheric rock/grungegaze unit COMATOSE – featuring members of Chrome Waves, Amiensus, and Fail To Decay – will release their A Way Back debut January 22nd, 2021 via Transcending Records. COMATOSE began in the winter of 2019/2020 with a group of musicians — Jacob Carlson (Fail To Decay), Daren Menz (Fail To Decay, Chrome Waves-live), …
NEWS: Come ‘see’ Skinshape – he’s live streaming a free gig tomorrow
AFTER a brace of luscious albums in the latter half of last year, Umoja and Arrogance Is The Death Of Men (check out our reviews here and here, respectively), Will Dorsey, aka Skinshape, is throwing open the curtains on 2021 with his very first Instagram live performance tomorrow, Thursday, January 14th, at 7pm Central European …
SEE: Visionist preludes his March album for Mute with ‘The Fold’
LONDON’S musical scryer Visionist has announced details of a new album, A Call To Arms which, after his 2017 LP Value for Big Dada, will be his debut for Mute. The album, which will be released come March 5th, sees a departure in aesthetic methods as for the first time he brings his own voice to …
News: DMA’s announce ‘Live at Brixton’ album and release exciting video for track ‘Lay Down (Live at Brixton)’
Sydney’s DMA’s made Backseat Mafia’s top 100 albums for 2020 for the brilliant album ‘Glow’ (review here) and following a spate of singles and a delayed opportunity to tour the album, they have just announced the release of a double album of their last proper live gig in Europe at Brixton O2 Centre in early …
Track: Nancy Sinatra releases ‘(L’été Indien) Indian Summer’ ahead of year long reissue series
Grammy winning reissue label Light In The Attic have announced a comprehensive definitive compilation of Nancy Sinatra’s 65-76 output in a campaign spread out over a year, to celebrate her 80th year. Confident that this is first time anyone has really done her career justice, there’s a lot more than maybe meets the eye to …
News: Extreme Metal Band Scour Announce An Exclusive Livestream January 29th With Special Guests Shock Narcotic
SCOUR, the extreme metal collective featuring Philip H. Anselmo (Pantera, Down, En Minor, et al), John Jarvis (Agoraphobic Nosebleed), Derek Engemann (Philip H. Anselmo & The Illegals), Mark Kloeppel (Misery Index), and Adam Jarvis (Pig Destroyer, Lock Up) will kick off 2021 with an exclusive livestream performance later this month! SCOUR released their long-anticipated The …