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SEE: King Charles’ plea to ‘Feel These Heavy Times’
DANDYISH London troubadour King Charles has released the video for a new lockdown song, “Feel These Heavy Times”. It’s a sweet and hushed pleas for togetherness and love in straitened times: “I know you know life’s not fair / Maybe that’s why revolution’s in the air”. The video features self-filmed clips of fans at home …
Track: Frank Turner covers NOFX Falling In Love Taken From Split Album With NOFX
Frank Turner has just released a cover of NOFX’s ‘Falling In Love’, taken from the forthcoming split covers album West Coast Vs. Wessex between himself and NOFX, which is due for release via Fat Mike’s own Fat Wreck Chords label on July 31, 2020. Both artists take five tracks each. As well as Franks five covers, West Coast Vs. Wessex, captures NOFX filtering …
Album Review: Wino – Forever Gone
US doom legend Scott “Wino” Weinrich (The Obsessed, Saint Vitus), is set to release an acoustic record on June 26th via Ripple Music. Titled ‘Forever Gone’ it will be his first acoustic record since ‘Adrift’, and also marks the launch of Ripple’s ‘Blood and Strings’ vinyl series.Produced by Frank Marchand, ‘Forever Gone’ reflects the inexhaustible creativity of …
Track: Trent Halliday – Get Close
Essex Singer-songwriter Trent Halliday has released a new track ‘Get Close’, written this year and taken from a forthcoming album, details of which to follow. Trent says of the process and the current climate, “….I have been recording a new album. All of the songs for it have been written this year. Those written before …
Track: Nobody – Stronger Than Blood
Tuomas Kauppinen is the Finnish one-man acoustic black metal troubadour, known as Nobody. He is set to release a debut album Atmosfear on June 26th 2020 via Inverse Records. Tuomas Kauppinen comments: “Stronger than blood is a musical journey inside the mind of a great manipulator, who can persuade children to turn against their parents and …
Track: Scott ‘Wino’ Weinrich – The Song’s At The Bottom Of The Bottle
Doom metal godfather Scott “Wino” Weinrich unveils a new track taken from his forthcoming solo album ‘Forever Gone’, out on June 26th on Ripple Music. Titled ‘The Song’s At The Bottom OF The Bottle’ this new track comes after his recent sharing of his cover of Joy Division’s Isolation. Wino gives more insight on “The Song’s at the …
Track: Mark Lanegan – Stockholm City Blues
With the release of Mark’s new album ‘ Straight Songs of Sorrow’ due 8th May via Heavenly Recordings we have the pleasure of sharing a track from the album – ‘Stockholm City Blues’ Stockholm City Blues is sparse and beautiful with strings and finger-picking accompanying lyrics on the remorse code of addiction. Trademark Lanegan and …
Album Review : Jeff Tweedy’s ‘Together At Last’
As I sat listening to Jeff Tweedy’s newest collection of acoustic covers called Together At Last, the thing that hit me first was how much my friend Mark would’ve loved it. Wilco, and in particular Jeff Tweedy, was one of the things we bonded over when we first got to know each other. Wilco and …
Elkhorn Release ‘The Black River’ on Debacle Records.
I first heard Elkhorn, the New York City based, long term friends, Jesse Shepard and Drew Gardner, whilst searching out new and interesting sounds to balance my equilibrium. The duelling duo had just digitally released the name your price ‘LIVE at Rhizome’. An album featuring tracks from their eponymous debut release ‘Elkhorn’ on fellow NYC …
Track: Josh Kemp – U.R.
Nottingham singer-songwriter Josh Kemp has returned with a brand new EP, titled A Wonderful World, complete with new music video for the single ‘U.R.’ The EP features previously released songs ‘Imaginary Friend’ and ‘Leap Of Faith’, and is available on Spotify now. “The last 12 months have been pretty turbulent globally and personally,” Josh explains, choosing …