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News: Magma to release new album “Zëss”, see review trailer
Legendary French experimental/prog band Magma have announced they are to release a new album – “Zëss” on June 28th via Seventh Records. It’s taken the band some time to pull it together into a studio recording because the first drafts were made in 1977. After a gradual process finishing the record, the band debuted it on …
News: Madonna, Eurovision, Future and Daring Greatly
At last night’s Eurovision Song Contest, Madonna performed two songs: ‘Like a Prayer’ and her new song ‘Future.’ The vocals were not in tune. People threw shade, dissed the costume, said she should retire. This morning I listened to ‘Future’ carefully from here. It’s actually pretty good, its just better as a studio track than …
Track: BLACK STAR RIDERS – ‘Another State of Grace’ and New Album News
Nuclear Blast are delighted to announce the release of Black Star Riders new studio album “Another State Of Grace” on the 6thSeptember 2019. The band will support the record with a full UK and Ireland tour in October 2019 with additional dates in other territories to be announced in the near future. Listen to the …
Track: COMBICHRIST – “Understand” and New Album news
The fire is aroused – Combichrist are back, with their full arsenal on show. Precise. Lurking. Merciless. The bands ninth studio album “One Fire“ will be released on 7th of June, and it shows a band at the top of their game. Watch ‘Understand’ Here: Cold industrial, heavy riffs seal a sinister alliance, …
Track: Imperial Daze – People are Animals
Following a brilliant debut last year with one of my favourite singles of last year, ‘Always Settling’, Peckham’s Imperial Daze are back with another fantastic single ‘People are Animals’. Of the release, the band says it “hints at the glaring contradiction that, although we are ever more digitally connected, these digital connections can ultimately be …
Track: Penelope Trappes – Carry Me (Cosey Fanni Tutti remix)
Remix albums seem to fall into two different categories at times. There is the seemingly avaricious cash grab element where instead of releasing for free or pay-what-you-want on digital platforms for remixes that are just… eurgh… We’ve all picked up one of those remix albums. Or “bonus track” digipacks if you were a metal fan …
Track: Wasuremono – Self-Help plus tour dates
It’s been a busy few weeks for Bradford-on-Avon quartet WASUREMONO. Throughout this month, the group have played a handful of dates, including festivals Live at Leeds, Stag and Dagger and The Great Escape with more to follow (see bottom of the post), along with the release of their latest single, “Self-Help.” Having been spun on Steve …
Track: Wildhoney – Naive Castle
Slumberland Records have been a mighty presence within the independent community since their formation 30 years ago. This is a label who have worked with such indie luminaries as The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, Stereolab, Dum Dum Girls and even Flying Nun alum Robert Scott via. The Bats. Risky to some but perhaps …
News: New Model Army reveal new album and UK/European tour news
After 40 years Bradford’s national institiution New Model Army show no signs of slowing down, indeed hugely acclaimed albums Between Dog And Wolf (2013) and Winter(2016) showed that the band, with singer and original member Justin Sullivan could still make music that was literate and more important relevant. And now the band are back with a new album, From …
News: Mute to reissue Suicide’s self-titled debut as part of the Art of the Album series
Suicide, the highly influential art-noise project of Alan Vega and Marty Rev, is having Mute’s Art of the Album treatment in a reisue of their 1977 debut album, due out on July 12th. As with the other releases in the series, there are no extra tracks, it is just the album as it was, remastered …