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NEWS: Dark Horse Records announce a career-spanning Joe Strummer comp featuring unreleased tracks
DARK HORSE RECORDS, the label founded by George Harrison in 1974, has announced that it is to issue a solo years-spanning best-of looking at Joe Strummer’s career after The Clash. It’s to be a 16-track compilation entitled Assembly, and will feature singles, favourites, and archive rarities, including a heretofore unheard acoustic take on “Junco Partner” …
SEE: Martha’s Vineyard Ferries – ‘Jail Material’: deliciously dirty US underground trio return
THE MARTHA’S VINEYARD FERRIES, the loud and deliciously, abrasively proud trio brought together by Shellac’s mighty Bob Weston, Chris Brokaw, of Come and Codeine, and Elisha Wiesner, otherwise of Kahoots, have dropped the video for a lip-curlingly LOUD and guitar heavy new song, “Jail Material” – you can take a dive down the bottom there. It’s …
SEE: Gary, Indiana game break with Alien 3
Manchester electronic post-punk outfit Gary, Indiana seem very much attuned to the habits of many bored-at-home UK residents, with the release of “Alien 3“, out now through Fire Talk Records. Bringing together clips from, among other things, hallowed video game Red Dead Redemption II (from what we spy… it could easily be an earlier instalment) …
EP Review: Hope D’s ‘Cash Only’ EP is a gorgeously textured, multi-layered and expressive pop delight.
Brisbane is battling for the title of the most creative indie pop centre of the southern hemisphere at the moment, epitomised by a number of acts like Hatchie and Mallrat featuring highly talented female artists that display a prodigious talent for songwriting. Brisbane’s Hope D is another case for the prosecution. Her new EP ‘Cash …
News: Sony launches XXIM progressive instrumental imprint: see Eydís Evensen’s ‘Brotin’
SONY has decided to get itself a little of the modern compositional pie and to that end, has set up a new progressive instrumental label, XXIM Records; which has opened its catalogue by introducing its first signing, Icelandic pianist and composer Eydís Evensen. To mark the label’s launch, she’s released her debut single, “Brotin”, the …
NEWS: Dark Tea announce new album, out April 30th on Fire Talk
FOR THOSE who don’t know the project, Dark Tea is Gary Canino’s solo project, taking advantage of a large group of collaborators in the New York scene. Spanning across mostly 80s-inspired songwriting styles, the project is quite characteristic but also classic-sounding, in its own way. Gary is now announcing a new record, out April 30th …
NEWS: Chad Vangaalen announces a March album for Sub Pop; see the properly brilliant animation for ‘Samurai Sword’
HE’S SO much fun, right? Sub Pop’s favourite Albertan singer-songwriter, Chad VanGaalen – he’s made his whimsical home at the Seattle imprint since 2006’s Skelliconnection – has revealed that actually, horticulturally speaking, he’s the World’s Most Stressed Out Gardener; well, actually that would be musically too, since that’s also how his new album will be …
News: Nightwish reschedule some dates for their 2021 European tour
Due to the ongoing Covid-19 pandemic, Nightwish have had to rescheduled some of their 2021 European tour dates. Previously purchased tickets will remain valid for all rescheduled dates. Finnish metal legends Amorphis will be special guests on this tour, with the billing completed by industrial band Turmion Kätilöt. NIGHTWISH EUROPEAN TOUR 2021w/ Amorphis + Turmion Kätilöt 17.11. IE Dublin – 3Arena18.11. UK …
