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NEWS: Evanescence announce release date for their new album, ‘The Bitter Truth’
EVANESCENCE’S first album of original music in a decade, The Bitter Truth, will be released on March 26th next year Sony Music, and pre-orders are now live. The band’s latest single, “Yeah Right”, is also out now to whet our appetites for what’s to come. Listen to it below! You can pre-order The Bitter Truth …
News: Larkin Poe bring us some festive cheer with Christmas live streaming event
2020 has put the brakes on for so many artists, but Larkin Poe haven’t slowed down at all. In June the Atlanta-born Nashville-based multi-instrumentalist sister duo Rebecca and Megan Lovell released their fifth studio album, Self Made Man, which combined their full-throttle roots-rock with a refreshing positivity. Barely pausing for breath, last month they released …
NEWS: The Telescopes guitarist David Fitzgerald dies
A REALLY sad loss to the world of early Nineties British independent guitar music this evening, as news began to circulate on Facebook that David Fitzgerald, the original guitarist with Burton-on-Trent’s psych-noise genii The Telescopes, has died. In a statement on Facebook, Wrong Way Records posted: “Haven’t posted of here for quite a while, but …
Track: The Chills – You’re Immortal
The Chills have provided a very nice end of the year surprise in the form of a new single ‘You’re Immortal’, and all the horrors of 2020 suddenly seem to dissipate ever so slightly, like memories of a bad dream. ‘You’re Immortal’ has that baroque pop elegance full of pomp and circumstance that the The …
TRACK: Madmess – ‘Ignition’: Portuguese psych trio sign and reissue debut EP
HASSLE RECORDS, home to such guitar assault squads as raging post-feminist outfit Petrol Girls and Belgian hardcore/mathrock band Brutus, has enticed a blurrily excellent act through its doors: the London-based Portuguese psych trio Madmess. The label begins its relationship with the trio – guitarist and vocalist Sam Paio, bassist Vasco Vasconcelos, and drummer-cum-vocalist Luis Moura …
Aaron Lee Tasjan – ‘Computer Of Love’; Nashville troubadour’s new album is out in February
NASHVILLE Americana troubadour Aaron Lee Tasjan, who’s been far from idle this year with the release of two digital-only EPs, the two-volume Found Songs, has dropped one final, finely sculpted kiss-off to the year, “Computer Of Love” and accompanying intergalactic visuals – have a peek for yourself. Aaron, who’s collaborated with everyone from Sean Lennon …
TRACK: John Paul Keith – ‘How Can You Walk Away’; a love letter to the Memphis sound
MEMPHIS’ John Paul Keith, an artist deeply embedded in the raunch and the blues of his home city, has announced the follow-up to his 2018 album Heart Shaped Shadow; it’ll be out on Wild Honey Records come February 19th and it’s entitled The Rhythm Of The City. He’s shared the album’s opening track, “How Can …
Track: EWAH and the Vision of Paradise return with single Vanishing Point
The arctic and chiming sounds of EWAH and the Vision of Paradise somehow echo and reflect the geographical landscapes of Tasmania and the southern climate – wild, unpredictable and ever so cool. The new single ‘Vanishing Point’ is delectable: mesmerising, hypnotic and crystalline with such a posed sense of style. Guitars scythe their way through …
TRACKS: See the video for Femi Kuti’s ‘Pà Pá Pà’ and hear Made Kuti’s ‘Your Enemy’ ahead of February’s twin albums
AFROBEAT founding father and steely political activist Fela Kuti gifted us a wondrous back catalogue investigating jazz, funk, hiphop, rock, traditional Nigerian musics, so much more, before passing in 1997. Of course, he also gifted us his son, Femi; and in turn Femi’s gifted us his son, Made, to continue that legacy and take it …
SEE: Arlo Parks – ‘Caroline’: extra UK dates for next summer
MAY WE talk of one of the artists to properly keep an eye on in ’21? We may? Excellent. Arlo Parks grew up in South-West London, a self-confessed tomboy, super-sensitive, who sums her teenage self up as “a black kid who can’t dance for shit, listens to emo music and currently has a crush on …