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Premiere: The Holiday Crowd release video for Cheer Up
Toronto indie pop quartet The Holiday Crowd have released a new video for ‘Cheer Up’, debuting here today on Backseat Mafia. It was the first single to be taken from the bands self-titled sophomore effort, which dropped last month on the Shelflife label. Cheer up is this picture-postcard indie pop (postcard being the operative word …
Premiere: Studio Montaigne – Believe (Tëro remix)
French producer, composer and arranger Studio Montaigne aka Martin Helleu is about to drop his latest EP, Believe – and from it we are delighted to premiere the Tëro remix of the track. Influenced by the likes of Daft Punk to Michael Jackson, Armand Van Helden to Visage, Helleu has made what is essentially a …
Premiere: Low Cut Connie release video for Revolution Rock n Roll
What happens when things get rather out of hand. Low Cut Connie Frontman / songwriter Adam Weiner describes a night thats been documented in their new video for Revolution Rock n Roll as one where “the room was throbbing with existential tension and orgiastic release…our fans showed up stressed and depressed and we gave them …
Premiere: Equators – Second Wind
Equators are essentially the project of Trevor H, and they make rather lovely psychedelic pop out of San Francisco, CA. Describing their output as being an attempt to “break away from a (sometimes) forced or narrow structure within pop/rock music to conjure sounds/textures/melodies based on off-the-cuff exercises creating something charged with immediacy…little by little the …
Premiere: Pocket Dragon reveal video for new single ‘Vagabond Capulet’
Five piece alternative Funk / jazz band Pocket Dragon have just announced a new double A side single ‘35 Degrees’/‘Vagabond Capulet’. It sees the band, who have been honing their skills both in the studio and playing at the likes of Cheltenham and Cambridge jazz festival give their neo-soul/fusion funk even more of a twist. …
Premiere: The Sly Persuaders – TFD + Interview
Full of surf tinged psychosis, and the cock sure swagger of a 50’s knife gang, London ‘billy-punks, The Sly Persuaders follow up what seems like an endless stream of live dates with their long awaited debut album. Drawing comparisons to the likes of The Gun Club, The Cramps, and The Birthday Party, they bring their …
Premiere: Black Mamba Fever reveal video for Fake Blood
Theres a whiff of The Cramps, Television, Gang of Four and their post-punk ilk about Sheffield indie rockers Black Mamba Fever, but they manage to create a sound all of their own, wiry muscular guitars and the dark baritone of Louis Ashman draped all over a melodies that stick in your mind. We’re very pleased …
Exclusive: Rhys Bloodjoy- Psyche Attack Theories
Teetering on the peripherals of space and time, one man psych-assassin, Rhys Bloodjoy, once again ventures into the darker side of things to bring you his latest offering, the Psyche Attack Theories. Five songs that, as the man himself puts it, “all relate to ways in which unseen, dark forces can play havoc with the …
Premiere: Hope & Social reveal video for Come What May
We’re delighted to premiere ‘Come What May’ the latest video from Leeds DIY collective Hope & Social’s recent Feel album. They’ve always done things a little differently, have Hope & Social. Musically, they beg steal and borrow from just about everywhere – indie, folk, pop, theatre even, to make these beautiful harmony riddled tales, spruced …
Say Psych: Premiere, Loomis by The Band Whose Name Is A Symbol
OK here’s the thing, every year we hope against all hope that this year is going to be a great year for music. I’m pretty convinced that 2016, for all its issues elsewhere, has been a bloody fine one when it comes to psychedelic sonic adventures. A key ingredient of this for me was …