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Track: Hate World Hero – The Beast Has Awoken
Finnish Rovaniemi-based melodic metal band Hate World Hero released a new single ‘The Beast Has Awoken’ via Inverse Records. The band comments: “The Beast Has Awoken is about the awakening or waking up of The Beast. The Beast itself can signify anyone or anything, even an object or an experience. In life we face setbacks, doubts and …
PREMIERE: LUMBEROB serves up some ‘FRIEDLEGGINGS’ as he releases his debut album
No idea what Rob Erickson is doing in that press photo up there but we’d be doing the same thing if we had an album out today. Speaking of, New Yorker Erickson—otherwise known as the caps-lock key-destroying LUMBEROB—has an album out today! It’s called LANGUAGE LEARNER and it’s a hell of a trip, a 22-track …
TRACK: Baba Ali release new single ‘Black & Blue’ via Yard Act’s Zen F.C. label, the first non-Yard Act release.
Baba Ali have released new single ‘Black & Blue‘ via Yard Act‘s Zen F.C. label. This is from their double A-side ‘Living It Up’ / Black & Blue‘. It is a synth-laden track of heavy electronica, full of beats and with a slightly distorted vocal creating a dancefloor friendly clanking industrial soundscape. Baba Ali are …
Track: Fontaines D.C. release new single ‘I Love You’, the second from forthcoming album Skinty Fia due out on 22 April
Fontaines D.C. have released ‘I Love You‘, the second single to be taken from their forthcoming album Skinty Fia which will be released on 22 April via Partisan Records. The band continue to follow their own path. Rather than return to the frantic energy of debut album Dogrel, here we have a track full of …
Tracks: Opus Kink Announce Debut EP & Share Lead Single ‘I Love You, Baby’
Brightons own Opus Kink have shared their new single ‘I Love You, Baby’, taken from the collective’s debut EP arriving this summer via Nice Swan Records. Speaking about the single release, the band explained: “‘I Love You, Baby’ is a sweet, tender love song charting one careless heart’s adventure through purgatory. Signed with a sticky kiss from Opus Kink to you”. …
Track: Bishopskin – I Was Born On An Island
Starting out as a lockdown project between vocalist Tiger Nicholson and guitarist James Donovan (elsewhere seen playing for HMLTD), Bishopskin have become so much more than that: there isn’t quite another band, nor possibly has there ever been, that sounds like they do, or that tried to do what they’re bent on achieving. Anyone who …
Track: Global beat fusionists The Bongo Hop drop ‘The Red Hill’, prime Latin hip hop vibes to announce soon come mini album.
French musician/producer Etienne Sevet (aka. The Bongo Hop), traveller, sound selector, trumpeter has his finger on so many pulses. Funk, soul, jazz, afro-grooves all pumped up with that racy Latin heartbeat from his one time home Colombia. It’s a blend that makes for a distinct Bongo Hop sound, rhythmically slick, smartly arranged songs for head, …
Tracks: Mountain Party – Hell, I Don’t Know
Formed in the heart of Georgia, Mountain Party makes music inspired by the working class and the everyday tragedy and celebration of American life. ‘Hell, I Don’t Know’ is the band’s first new release in nearly two years. Gritty vocals deliver attention grabbing lyrics as a cascade of music from the rolling drums and gentle picked guitar. The …
Track: Sydney’s Jet City Sports Club unveil a spirited, jangling slice of heavenly melancholic pop in track ‘She Don’t Need No One’ and announce launch date.
With a genetic make up that has hints of The Sundays and The Cranberries as well as an antipodean bloodline stretching back to bands like Even As We Speak, The Killjoys and The Clouds, Sydney band Jet City Sports Club have released the sparkling ‘She Don’t Need One’. It’s jingle jangle guitars aplenty with with …
News: Sydney’s fizzing pop punksters Down For Tomorrow are up for a national tour and entice with anthemic single ‘Dark Comedy’ – a zesty track capturing the zeitgeist with an explosive thrill.
Sydney outfit Down For Tomorrow continue their skyward trajectory with their new single ‘Dark Comedy’. Chainsaw guitars tear apart the sonic landscape under the urgent excoriating vocals. This track has the bite and thunder of something like The Vines – indelible melodies that arch over the thunderous instrumentation, imbued with power and passion and a …