Track / Video
Track: Grand Cousin – Oxygen
Best Friends since their freshman year alongside being Grand Cousin (singular rather than actual, you know, cousins) Henry Hall (songwriter / vocals / guitar) Robby Caplan (bass) and Evan Low (drums) have already been kicking up some interest in the local New York area, and that’s only set to continue with the release of their …
See: Thus Owls release video for How in My Bones
Thus Owls are husband and wife duo Erika and Simon Angell. Their new record Turning Rocks was split between the two protagonists homelands, and home cities of Montreal and Stockholm. The album itself takes two separate ideas – stories and memories from a tiny island called Orust, just north of Gothenburg, supplied by Erika’s Grandmother …
See: Cut Throat Logic release video for Stay True
If there’s anyone that knows the inside story of chasing fame, its Arizona hip-hop duo, Cut Throat Logic. In the decade since the two, JustUs and Deonte got together, they worked hard tirelessly promoting their shows using street teams, flyers, merchandising and networking. That has brought them shows with heavyweights such as KRS- One, Raekwon, …
Track: Screaming Maldini reveal new single, Islands
April has drawn to a close but the journey is just beginning for the bright Sheffield band Screaming Maldini. Since their debut album in February 2013, the band have vowed to gift fans with a new track for every month in 2014, accumulating to a “mysterious finale” in December of this year. The first three months …
Track: The Library is on Fire – 1913
Out right now is Brooklyn three piece The Library is on Fire’s new album, Halcyon and Surrounding Areas and third single to be taken from it 1913. The band, Steve Five, Pete Sustarsic and Travin Tonn, make this kind of shoegaze, gothy music that has these dreamy shards of hopefulness, joy even, that sparkle particularly …
Track: Alpha Consumer – Miss Positron
Minnesota’s Alpha Consumer nearly dropped off the radar. But in the end, we couldn’t resist their b-movie indie charm, their forever evolving songs, and their frankly winning melodies. In fact half the reason we’ve taken so long about it is that we’ve struggled to get it off the playlist. Their new track, taken from their …
Track: Vasa – ‘Not A Cop’, plus tour dates.
Contrary to popular belief, and much to the bewilderment of many, I do only have one pair of hands and can still only be in one place at any one given time. This can be quite frustrating at times, especially when you really want to do one thing, but you also really want to do …
See: Thot. release new video for ‘HTRZ’
‘Here mate. Do you fancy a bit of vegetal noise music?’ Don’t know about where you live, but it’s the sort of question we get asked all the time round here. Usual response to the question is ‘Yeah, but only if you’ve got some of that industrial strength stuff.You know the stuff I mean – …
Track: Cate Le Bon – Sisters
Have you heard Cate Le Bon? You haven’t? Well go grab Television’s Marquee Moon, The Strokes’ Is This It, and a couple Nico albums. Now put them all in a blender, sprinkle with a smattering of 60s garage rock and The Owls Daughters and Suns, have Deerhoof give their blessing, then hit “liquify”. What you …
See: Blood Red Shoes; Banned video ‘Speech Coma’
I sometimes wonder why they have buttons on remote controls that allow you to change channels, switch it on or off etc. Why? Because it would appear that some people don’t think you are capable of making that judgement for yourself. People such as MTV who have decided for you that the new video from …