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NEWS: Slam Dunk Festival Announce Last Bands For 2019 Lineup
The organisers over at Slam Dunk festival have hit us with not one, not two, but THREE announcements this past couple of weeks. The good news is, the lineup is now complete so final plans for bands to catch can now commence! Announced just today and completing the lineup are pop-punk staples Neck Deep, As …
Say Psych: News: Death Valley Girls announce European Tour & Share video for ‘Street Justice’
After releasing their album Darkness Rains last year via Suicide Squeeze Records, Los Angeles’ Death Valley Girls share a new video for ‘Street Justice’ and announce a European tour. Speaking about the single, Bonnie Bloomgarden said “This country is so messed up politically right now. Everyday we wake up it feels like we are stuck in a fucking haunted house. But we know in …
New Track: Fontaines D.C. – Big, Plus Album and tour news
The stupendous Fontaines D.C. are back with a blistering new single, “Big”. It may clock in at a warp speed of 1 minute and forty-five seconds yet it is, no exaggeration, safeguarding the future of intelligent, dirty rock’n’roll. “Big” is swaggering punk poetry at its best, continuing a line of brilliant singles released by the …
New Track: Greta Stanley – Kick
Last year we reviewed a single from Queensland’s Greta Stanley off her marvelous debut album ‘Fully Grown” and now she’s back with a new gorgeous single, “Kick”. Stanley’s vocals are languorous, velvety and smooth as she croons over a surprisingly electronic thumping spine.”Kick” is an extremely seductive pop song about surviving dark times. Stanley says …
New Track: Thomas Keating – Today, I’m Staying Home
‘Today, I’m Staying Home’ is a glorious, anthemic paean to cocooning from a prodigious new talent, Thomas Keating. A rippling acoustic bedrock underpins Keatings open heartfelt singing and chorus as wide and open as the Simpson Desert. This is a catchy, jaunty pop song whose lyrics are contrastingly tinged with a hint of regret and …
New Music: Edith Thomas Furey – Sleep Well, My Love (EP)
Dark, brooding, gothic and mysterious. Music to my ears and music indeed from the latest treasure uncovered by the prestigious and productive Valley Heat Records in the form of Edith Thomas Furey‘s new EP, “Sleep Well My Love” and the single “Wednesday”. That something so wintery could emanate from a place as bright and bouncy …
Album Review: Manic Street Preachers – This Is My Truth: Tell Me Yours (20th Year Collectors Edition)
I remember moving to London during the peak of the Brit Pop years in the midst of the Blur versus Oasis hyperbole. But the albums from that era that really struck me were Pulp’s “Different Class”, The Verve’s “Urban Hymns” and most of all, “This is My Truth Tell Me Yours” from The Manic Street …
News: Bowling For Soup To Bring Early Festive Cheer To The UK!
It’s coming up to the festive period and what better way to get your Christmas bells jingling than an evening with Pop Punk legends Bowling For Soup?! After the success of the ‘Get Happy’ tour at the start of the year, BFS are bringing their unique brand of pop punk back to the UK for …
Say Psych: News: TAU announce new album and first single ‘It’s Already Written’
Berlin based TAU are back, with a new track. ‘It’s Already Written’ is the first single lifted from forthcoming second album TAU and the Drones of Praise, set for release in Februrary. It’s a one chord scorcher full of mantras inspired by the cosmic serpent and its relation to DNA theory. The song is powered …
Say Psych: News: Bauhaus to release The Bela Session
Leaving Records, in partnership with Stones Throw Records have announced that they will release The Bela Session by Bauhaus on 23rd November on vinyl and digital platforms. The Bela Session captures the first time Bauhaus recorded together, just six weeks after forming as a band, on 26th January 1979. This is the first release of …