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News: Mongolian Folk Metal Pioneers Nine Treasures to Release ‘Best Of’ Record
Few bands can claim to have an identity and sound as remarkable as Nine Treasures. Forming in 2010, one of the original Mongolian Folk Metal bands have one simple goal: to take Mongolian heavy metal worldwide. Now, a decade on; three albums, millions of streams and several European tours and festival shows (Wacken Open Air, Woodstock …
Track: Charlie Clark releases the glorious and chiming single ‘Don’t Have A Cow, Man!’ and announces solo album for 2021
With an impressive CV behind him, Scottish musician Charlie Clark has struck out on his own with the most brilliant, chiming single ‘Don’t Have A Cow, Man!’. This is a pulse quickening bell that rings out with jangling guitars, lush choruses and a sense of strength and rebirth. With mastering from Ride’s Mark Gardener and …
Track: Apollo Junction release the stomping single On the Ropes and announce live shows
Leeds five-piece Apollo Junction may be new on the horizon (to me at least) but their new single ‘On The Ropes’ has all the hallmarks of a seasoned and experienced indie band with attitude and poise. The single slams along at a heady pace with a glam stomp, electronic-spined throb and sky-high choruses – really …
TRACKS: Clémentine March – ‘Into The Distance’/’Éternité’
AN ECLECTIC, alt.folk(ish) singer-songwriter with a lovely, raggedy edge to her song fashioning, French-born but London based Clémentine March is close to a perfect match for Johnny Lynch’s Lost Map imprint, homespun and vital, operating from the fastnesses of the Inner Hebridean island of Eigg (current pop: 47). She debuted for Lost Map last year …
News: Enforcer To Release Live Album and shares first single ‘From Beyond (Live)’
Swedish heavy metal band Enforcer are proud to present their second live album, Live By Fire II, due 19th March via Nuclear Blast Records. The band have also released a live video for the first single ‘From Beyond’. Olof Wikstrand comments: “‘From Beyond’ has, since the release of that album, become a live favourite both for the band and the …
NEWS: Telex announce ‘This Is Telex’ comp for Mute; see ‘Moskow Diskow’
BELGIAN synthpop originators ‘n’ pranksters Telex have announced they’re going into partnership with Mute, the very first realisation of which is a career retrospective in This is Telex, a new 14-track compilation, featuring new mixes of 12 classics from the oeuvre and a brace of previously unreleased tracks. This is Telex will be released on limited …
TRACK: Bill Stone – ‘Purple’: lost psych-folk nugget gets a reissue
YOU MAY think we’ve been there, got the T-shirt, seen it all where it comes to long-lost psych singer-songwriters of the Sixties and Seventies. Yep, we’ve adored and come to revise the place of history for artists like Bill Fay, Vashti, Gary Higgins; Linda Perhacs. They’re embraced, lauded, careers rejuvenated. We’ve mined it dry; we …
Track: Field Music release new single ‘Orion from the Street’, plus new tour dates
Perennial Backseat Mafia favourites Field Music, aka Peter and David Brewis are back with a new song, ‘Orion from the street,’, is out now via Memphis Industries and the first glimpse of a new studio album due out later in the year. Of the new track, Peter says “I wrote it in a daze – …
News: Stiff Little Fingers Announce March 2022 UK Shows
Eternal Punk Rockers STIFF LITTLE FINGERS have announced their annual UK tour, scheduled to start on March 4th in Bristol, has been put back to 2022 for reasons we will all be very much aware of by now. The dates originally booked for March 2020 and cancelled after three shows due to the Covid outbreak were originally rescheduled …
SEE: CHAOS E.T. SEXUAL – TOMORROW, PRUDENCE
2020 was, for want of better words, a real piece of work. Despite everything though, musically there were a few bright spots – one of which in his writer’s humble opinion being the release of French noise-rock trio Chaos E.T. Sexual‘s album Only Human Crust. The doomy, gritty music that Chaos, E.T. and Sexual committed …