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See: We Melt Chocolate – Blue Hair Girl
Florentine band We Melt Chocolate are an indelible part of Italy’s explosive indie music scene along with bands like Unruly Girls, Rev Rev Rev and the many magnificent psych bands covered recently on Backseat Mafia’s series on Italian psych music. We Melt Chocolate have just released an engrossing video for the song ‘Blue Hair Girl’ …
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News: El-P reissues Fantastic Damage – Out Now via Fat Possum
Iconic rapper and producer El-P, perhaps best known as one half of powerhouse rap duo Run the Jewels, recently announced an extensive reissue campaign of his full solo catalog via Fat Possum Records. Unavailable for nearly a decade, January 2020 marked the digital release of I’ll Sleep When You’re Dead, on streaming services for the …
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Droppin’ Knowledge: New Album from Damu The Fudgemunk, Raw Poetic & Jazz Great Archie Shepp
Earl “Damu the Fudgemunk” Davis, musician, producer and impresario of Redefinition Records, has teamed up with frequent partner Raw Poetic and jazz great Archie Sheep for the album, Ocean Bridges. The album, which drops today, is available on the Redefinition Bandcamp page. All tracks on the album were produced by Raw Poetic, who is also …
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Track: Self Defense Family – Make Me a Pallet Fire on Your Floor
Following ‘Leeds’, which dropped last month, and ‘Long Island’, which they released earlier this month, prolific Cohoes, New York-based post-punk collective Self Defense Family have unveiled ‘Australia’, the latest in a series of 7″ singles the band have named after their recording locations. The single’s A-side is titled ‘Make Me a Pallet Fire on Your …
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Track: Sergeant BuzFuz – Theresa McKee, plus new album news
Sheffield punk-folk stalwarts ‘Sergeant BuzFuz’ are gearing up to release a highly anticipated seventh album ‘Fox Pop’ on July 3rd via their DIY label Blang Records It’s been 5 years since the last Sergeant Buzfuz album, 2015’s ‘Balloons For Thin Linda’. Band leader Joe Murphy has lost both parents, got married, been a victim of a smear campaign (as a whistleblowing …