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Album Review: Lisa Caruso release the highly impressive debut album ‘In Feelings’ and shares her favourite music.
The tracks on Lisa Caruso‘s new album ‘In Feelings’ provide a gloriously impassioned tableaux for emotion and pain: honestly expressed and rendered with a theatrical flourish and a hint of troubled glamour. Caruso recorded parts of the album back in 2018 in London with producer Ben Fletcher (Sarah Blasko and Marina and the Diamonds) before …
Say Psych: News: Tangerine Dream Share Track from Previously Unreleased ‘The Keep’ Soundtrack
Tangerine Dream are one of the true pioneers of electronic and ambient music, and the albums they recorded for Virgin Records between 1980 and 1983 remain classics of the genre. Tangerine Dream’s classic recordings for Virgin made between 1980 and 1983 are to be released in Purple Twilight – The Virgin recordings 1980 – …
SEE: Teen Creeps release new single, ‘Seeing Shapes’, ahead of second album
“SEEING Shapes’ is the first single taken from Forever, the new album by Belgian indie rockers Teen Creeps, set for release on January 22nd, 2021 on [PIAS] Recordings. An ode to 90s’ fuzz-drenched bands such as Dinosaur Jr., Superchunk and Sonic Youth, the trio are sure to tick all the right buttons for those nostalgia …
TRACK: Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto – ‘After After’: heady psych rock teases November album
WELL, there’s a proper getting together of headz, lads. This is gonna be fun, no doubt about that. Nottingham’s garage-psychesters Little Barrie have decided to get some infused-sugarcube groove on in the studio and lay down an album with none other than Heliocentrics’ guru Malcolm Catto. Electric music for the mind and body, for sure. …
Premiere: Apparitions give us an exclusive look at the video for their new single ‘The Sailor Orates’ (feat. Luke Henery)
Brisbane’s dynamic Apparitions are premiering their buzzing new single ‘The Sailor Orates’ here at Backseat Mafia. With a guest vocal from Luke Henery from one of Australia’s foremost post-punk bands, Violent Soho, this is a rough-hewn diamond of a track: low-fi, sincere and with a rumble that pulsates and resonates. ‘The Sailor Orates’ is filled …
News: Bowling For Soup Announce 2021 UK Tour With Lit And The Dollyrots
Bowling For Soup are returning to the UK in 2021 with hope of some fun in the sun! The Texan crown princes of pop punk will be jetting back to their home away from home to embark on their first ever UK tour completely focused on seaside towns. The tour will begin in the very grand …
NEWS: The Gun Club’s classic ’82 set ‘Miami’ gets expanded reissue
WHEN Jeffrey Lee Pierce and Brian Tristan first got together to form a band in Los Angeles in 1979, they were both fans; mega-fans. Jeffrey headed up the LA branch of the Blondie fan club; Brian, later better known as Kid Congo Powers, the Ramones fan club. But no one could’ve guessed, for all their …
TRACKS: King Creosote – ‘Susie Mullen’ and ‘Walter de La Mare’ – Domino 7″ follows
IT’S BEEN four long years since we’ve heard from Fife’s Kenny Anderson, better known to us all as King Creosote. By my reckoning, that’s definitely four years too long. Which makes the headlong pop-chant of “Susie Mullen” all the more sweet. It’s got vivacity and motorik like Too Pure-era Stereolab raised on cranachan. Modular synths …
News: Keith Richards And The X-Pensive Winos Live at the Hollywood Palladium
On December 15th, 1988, Keith Richards and his incomparable band, The X-Pensive Winos, played the Hollywood Palladium. It was the penultimate show in a 12 city US tour and a night both band and audience will never forget. Now this legendary concert is available for the first time as a limited edition box set. Across …
NEWS: THE WEDDING PRESENT AND FRIENDS TO RELEASE ALBUM OF BOND THEMES FOR CALM
Come Play With Me proudly presents a collection of 20 Bond themes covered by current and former members of The Wedding Present. This benefit album will be released on Friday 4th December as a double LP (including CD), CD, and digitally. 100% of the profits from its sale will be donated to ‘Campaign Against Living …