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NEWS: Horsemeat Disco get back on the floor with Kathy Sledge
GLITTERBOX, Defected’s boutique disco imprint inspired by the Ibiza club night of the same name, has released a second collaborative single by the Horse Meat Disco boys and Sister Sledge legend Kathy Sledge. Following on from last year’s “Falling Deep In Love”, “Jump Into The Light” has everything you need: choppy, funky Fender Strat hooks, …
SEE: California COMEDOWN by Geno Carrapetta
Full of reminiscence and nostalgia for an epic Californian road trip, making memories on the beach.
NEWS: Tom Meighan departs Kasabian
A SHOCK announcement has come at the top end of the indie music world, with a statement being issued to the effect that vocalist Tom Meighan has left Kasabian “by mutual consent”. The statement continues: “Tom has struggled with personal issues that have affected his behaviour for quite some time and now wants to concentrate …
NEWS: Soundtrack legend Ennio Morricone has died
ITALIAN soundtrack scion Ennio Morricone has died, aged 91, in his birth city of Rome. Morricone’s life almost took an entirely different path: a talented footballer, he signed for his hometown club AS Roma. But it was to be his other talent, the trumpet, which won the day. Stints playing in jazz bands in the …
NEWS: Left Banke bassist and singer Tom Finn dead at 71
IT HAS been reported the founder member and bassist with seminal American baroque pop outfit The Left Banke, Tom Finn, has died at the age of 71. The Left Banke, perhaps unfairly known on British shores for authoring, but not their performance of, “Walk Away Renee” – as taken to the upper reaches of the …
NEWS: Bjork to stream shows from Reykavik
HOT on the heels of Nick Cave’s live stream from Ally Pally, announced yesterday, comes news from Iceland: Björk is to stream three matinee performances from Reykjavík’s Harpa Hall, to take place on August 9th, 15th and 23rd. The event, which has been put together with Iceland Airwaves, intends to raise money for a domestic …
NEWS: Red River Dialect’s gorgeous surprise EP, ‘Overabundance’
CORNISH-English folk-rock sextet Red River Dialect have released a surprise three-track, digital EP, Overabundance, book-ending the album from last year, Abundance Welcoming. The EP, which features three tracks recorded at sessions for the album in Carmarthenshire in late 2018, is out on Paradise of Bachelors today (July 3rd). Singer-songwriter and guitarist David Morris writes: “Three …
Track: Fontaines D.C. -Televised Mind plus tour news
The mighty Fontaines D.C. are warming up to the release of their much anticipated second album ‘A Heroes Death’ on 31 July 2020 (through Partisan Records) with another tasty morsel: ‘Televised Mind’. Providing a thicker more complex sound palette, ‘Televised Mind’ maintains the almost stream of consciousness poetic exhortations of singer Grian Chatten, building and …
Track: Calvin Decline Band – Taxi
Sweden is fast becoming a hot bed of new and exciting underground bands, with a resurgence of new music coming from the older established bands and the new kids on the block, from the likes of Rotten Mind and Beat City Tubeworks to the now resurfaced Calvin Decline Band from their seedy underground bunker/studio in …
NEWS: Nick Cave to live stream from Ally Pally, solo
Nick Cave has announced a live solo performance at the piano from London’s Alexandra Palace, to be streamed on July 23rd. The event, entitled Idiot Prayer: Nick Cave Alone at Alexandra Palace, is a film shot during June. The film will be streamed as live on July 23rd across three different time zones: in Australia …