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Track: The Besnard Lakes – Raindrops plus album news
The new single from Canadian band The Besnard Lakes is nothing short of magnificent. It has all the euphoria and pulse-racing joy you find in the works of bands like Sigur Ros, with Beach Boys/The Mamas and the Papas harmonies and a dream-like psychedelic shimmer reminiscent of The Verve or The Cocteau Twins. According to …
NEWS: The Lathums announce Blackpool Tower live stream
WIGAN’S current chosen indiepop few, The Lathums, have announced a return to live performance for the first time since their sold-out February tour when they play the historic Blackpool Tower, just up the M6 in coastal Lancs, with the show streaming in HD audio and video – for free – from 8pm British Summer Time next Wednesday, October 28th. The …
See: Young Marble Giants live video ahead of Colossal Youth 40th anniversary edition
Out on November 27th via the ever brilliant Domino Recordings Is the 40th anniversary edition of Young Marble Giant’s one and only album Colossal Youth. The Cardiff trio, guitarist-songwriter Stuart Moxham, brother and bassist Philip, and singer Alison Statton, have curated a package that includes the album, as well as songs from Salad Days, Is The War …
TRACK: The Kinks announce 50th anniversary reissue of ‘Lola vs. Powerman …’ – hear new track, ‘Any Time 2020’
THE KINKS’ eighth studio album, Lola Versus Powerman and the Moneygoround, Part One, is just celebrating its half-century … a scary thought. A concept album without the twiddly bits, but stuffed with classic songs such as “Lola”, “Get Back In Line” and “Apeman”, it followed 1968’s The Kinks Are The Village Green Preservation Society and …
NEWS: Alan McGee announces Creation Day festival for May ’21; tickets on sale tomorrow
A NEW festival has been announced for 2021 with a blast from the past … Creation Day, featuring Editors, Friendly Fires, Happy Mondays, Echo & The Bunnymen, Sleeper, Glasvegas and many more. The festival is the vision of Creation Records founder Alan McGee, and will take place at Wolverhampton West Park over the weekend of …
NEWS: Damaged Goods announce Heavenly and Talulah Gosh singles comps in time for Christmas!
NOW that’s the kinda Christmas present every proper indiekid needs. Damaged Goods have announced a 2xLP and CD reissue of their classic round-up of Talulah Gosh’s entire recorded output, Was It Just A Dream? – and as if that wasn’t enough to make December already a far more welcoming prospect, they’ve also, in the absolute …
NEWS: Clap Your Hands Say Yeah announce new album and tour dates; hear ‘Hesitating Nation’ and ‘Thousand Oaks’
ALEC OUNSWORTH’S superb guitar pop outfit Clap Your Hands Say Yeah are excited to announce a new album for the new year: it’s to be entitled New Fragility, and it’ll be hitting the racks on January 29th. And to ring in the announcement, they’ve released a double A-side: “Hesitating Nation” and “Thousand Oaks”. Do you know what, we …
NEWS: Rozi Plain concludes subscriber-only V I S I T ▲ T I O N S series for Lost Map
LOST MAP RECORDS, the beautifully curated imprint run by The Pictish Trail’s Johnny Lynch from the Scottish island Eigg, has a second series of V I S I T ▲ T I O N S ready for you: a subscriber-only, three-part set of special limited-edition releases, written and recorded in rural seclusion in a “bothy” cabin …
News: Korn Joins Forces with World of Tanks Blitz for Halloween Event
Korn have collaborated with Wargaming and free-to-play video game titan, World of Tanks Blitz for a special Halloween event, to reveal the music video for Finally Free, taken from the band’s latest studio album, The Nothing. The video sets the stage for World of Tanks Blitz’s brand new Halloween mode: Burning Games. The clip for Finally Free tells the story …
News: The Pretty Things to reissue 50th anniversary edition of Parachute
To celebrate the 50th anniversary of The Pretty Things 5th album Parachute from 1970, Madfish Records have an announced a new reissue of the album, cut directly from the original Abbey Road master tapes. With a second LP featuring one side of rare singles and B-sides, and one with an original etching by Phil May, …