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TRACK: Milky Wimpshake’s tweepunk starburst ‘You Make A Nice Piece Of Art’ leads for October LP
IF YOU like your indiepop punky and proud, erudite and bearing a manifesto – yeah, like it used to – then Newcastle’s Milky Wimpshake should so be on your shopping list. The thrashy twee punk project of Pete Dale that has been releasing lofi sherbet grenades of purest bouncealong thrashpop for a quarter-century now – …
News: Semisonic Release First New Music In Twenty Years With EP – ‘You’re Not Alone’
Today, the Grammy-nominated trio Semisonic released “You’re Not Alone,” the group’s first new song in nearly 20 years. The single is the opening track from their forthcoming five-song EP You’re Not Alone out on September 18 via Pleasuresonic Recordings/Megaforce Records. “I wrote ‘You’re Not Alone’ a couple of years ago at a time when a lot of people, including me, were …
NEWS: Peter Green, RIP: Fleetwood Mac guitarist dies at 73
A GREAT of the guitar world has left us: it has been announced that Fleetwood Mac founder member Peter Green has died at the age of 73. The news was revealed in a short statement from his family solicitors, Swan Turton, which reads as follows: “It is with great sadness that the family of Peter …
NEWS: mod revival nearly men The V.I.P.’s get an Optic compilation
OPTIC NERVE is really becoming the go-to mecca for wax heads who want pristine vinyl reissues of lost, past greats; an Edsel for the 21st century. The latest cult musical waifs to receive the label’s loving care is British powerpop/mod outfit The V.I.P.’s. The V.I.P.’s are notable, besides perhaps an over-blessing of punctuation, for never …
NEWS: vinyl for Chemical Brothers’ ‘Got To Keep On’; museum exhibition
ATTENTION wax heads: in conjunction with The Design Museum in London, The Chemical Brothers have announced a limited edition pink vinyl 12” of the award-winning single “Got To Keep On”, the mesmerising video to which you can watch below. The museum, in Kensington, is reopening with the lead exhibition Electronic: From Kraftwerk To The Chemical …
Track: Tourists – Lego Man plus news of signing to Modern Sky
Torquay five piece Tourists have released a shimmering new single, ‘Lego Man’, in anticipation of a much awaited new album later this year, and on announcing news of signing to record label Modern Sky. Singer Jamie Giles describes Lego Man as: …a song about love turning sour. It fascinates me how love can turn into something dark, …
News: Korpiklaani Premier The Video For Their 2016 Masters Of Rock Performance
The folk metal superstars Korpiklaani have premiered their new Masters of Rock live video of their 2016 performance at the festival and proves once again the live power and energy of Korpiklaani. The band comments:“Ever since Sami joined us, we would often joke how we could have Sami run offstage after the first song on one …
NEWS: Tim Smith of Cardiacs passes aged 59
THE world of quirky indie music was left a little darker this morning with the news that Tim Smith, singer with eternally loved, eternal outsiders the Cardiacs, has died at the age of 59. Sadly, the man who brought us such quirkball, wonderfully English eccentric classics such as “Big Ship” and “All His Geese Are …
News: The Chills’ classic albums to be re-issued through Fire Records
It’s no secret that I am a huge fan of the New Zealand indie music scene ever since the heady days of the eighties, with the Dunedin music scene, spearheaded by the legendary Flying Nun Records, the explosive ingredient. And, at the head of the vanguard was, of course, the delectable The Chills. Fire Records …
NEWS: ‘One-man Beatles’ Emitt Rhodes dies aged 70
IT HAS been reported from the States that the psych-pop singer-songwriter once dubbed ‘the one-man Beatles’, Emitt Rhodes, has died at the age of 70. Californian-born Emitt moved through a brace of teenage bands, The Palace Guard and The Merry-Go-Round, before striking out on his own after the latter outfit disbanded in 1969. He recorded …