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EP: Against The Current – ‘Gravity’
With an ability to make each release their best yet, ‘Gravity’ presents and highlights a great deal of growth from the band in terms of maturity and musical understanding. Most important of all is that they know how to have fun doing what they love. Going with the title of the EP, it’s a release …
Track: Wire – ‘Joust and Jostle’ + Album & Tour news
‘Pink Flag’ by Wire has to be one of the most influential albums of all time. Released in 1977 it came in on the forefront of the new wave of music that followed the punk explosion of ‘76. Along with the likes of Gang of Four, and The Pop Group they took punk to a …
Track: Stillwave -‘Tarmac Plains’
Backseat Mafia favourites, and indeed friends, Stillwave released their latest single, ‘Tarmac Plains’ a few days ago. It’s another slab of reverb drenched guitars, soaring synth, drumbeats and ever so distinctive vocals, that once again make them stand out from the herd. Since first appearing on the pages of Backseat Mafia early last year, the …
See: Alex G – ‘Proof’ Music Video
Continuing with the idea of releasing a music video for every track from the debut album, Alex G has just released the video for ‘Proof’. What makes this one stand out is that it’s performed live from one take, although visually edited together from different takes, the audio represents the song in the best way …
Track: The Essence feat. J-Dubble – Love Thing
Just in time for Valentines day comes ‘Love Thing’, a new single from Rik Ducci & J-Dubble. Its the lead track from their upcoming collaborative album as ‘The Essence’, which drops on February 18th. Its more of a look back for the pair, as J-Dubble’s warm, approachable rhymes describe his affection for music, while Rik …
EP: Motsa – Time
Viennese producer Motsa, aka Varerio Dittrich has been attracting the attention of many observers with his pulsating, bass led electronic music over the last year. He’s appeared at the Red Bull Music Academy’s Bass Camp, had a track on the front of Mixmag, and done remixes for Sasha’s Last Night on Earth label. Now he’s …
Track: Nai Harvest – Sick on my Heart
Following in a (increasingly) long line of duo’s from the steel city, come singer/guitarist Ben Thompson and drummer Lew Currie, aka Nai Harvest. If you heard last years Buttercups single, or Hold Open Your Head EP, you’ll know that they’re equally at home making indie rock, garage punk and feedback laden-grunge, the pair are back …
Track: Sleaford Mods reveal two brilliant tracks, with Little Ditty / I’m shit at it
There’s not a band around at the moment like Sleaford Mods. The Nottingham two piece deliver minimalist beats punk beats courtesy of Andrew Fearn, and the people’s poetry of Jason Williamson, at once commenting on the social issues that affect us all, at another full of enthusiasm and humour, has this startlingly abrupt brilliance about …
See: Madonna releases new video, “Living For Love”
24 hours after been the first superstar to use Snap Channel, (on Snapchat Discover), to premiere her latest video, Madonna has now made it available to all via Vevo. Immediately after posting the video on Snapchat it became the number one trending topic on Facebook, leading Forbes news agency to claim “Even after all these …
See: Legendary Aussie band The Church unveil new single/video Vanishing Man
These seemingly eternal warriors of psychedelia are on the move again – The Church have only just released their album Further/Deeper in the US (we glowingly reviewed this treasure last October) and will be undertaking an extensive North American tour in the coming months. Read my review of their remarkable gig in Sydney here and make sure you …