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News: Ash To Release Vinyl Reissue Of Free All Angels + Three Full Album Shows
FREE ALL ANGELS LP // 16 SEPTEMBER NEWLY REMASTERED SPLATTER EDITION VINYL REISSUE BAND CELEBRATE THE 21ST ANNIVERSARY BY PLAYING THE ALBUM IN FULL WITH CHARLOTTE HATHERLEY ASH have announced the reissue on newly remastered splatter vinyl of their hugely successful and beloved FREE ALL ANGELS album on 16 September. The release follows the reissue …
News: The Pretty Reckless To Release New Acoustic Album, Other Worlds For November & Already A Recent Video For The Remix Of Got So High
OTHER WORLDS LP // 4 NOVEMBER 2022 GOT SO HIGH REMIX // NOW, SEE BELOW THE PRETTY RECKLESS – Taylor Momsen (vocals and guitar) Ben Phillips (guitar, keyboards and piano) Mark Damon (bass) and Jamie Perkins (drums) – are proud to announce the release of their new album OTHER WORLDS, a new collection that arrives …
News: Fight Like Apes Announce Return For One Night Only With 3Olympia Dublin Show.
Fight Like Apes Announce Return For One Night Only With 3Olympia Show on Friday 24th March 2023 Tickets on sale this Friday, 17th June Fourteen years since the release of their acclaimed debut album Flight Like Apes and The Mystery of The Golden Medallion, and almost six years since they announced their split as a band, Dublin alternative …
News: Darwin Deez announces UK & Irish dates +10 years reissue of debut album
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of his debut album – DARWIN DEEZ – will be embarking on a string of UK + IRISH live dates this Spring. With 10 dates altogether, Deez will be performing the album live and in-full at the following cities: LIVE DATES 202207/05 – Huddersfield, Parish08/05 – Newcastle, UK – The Riverside (14+)09/05 – Glasgow …
See: Krautjazz quintet Fazer offer an ode to a weird year ending in the whimsical but classy ‘Dezember’
WITH the recent album by Spiritczualic Enhancement Center (which, not to blow our own trumpet, we reviewed here) and others, it very much looks like one of the current leftfield trends to be ear to the ground for as 2021 melts inexorably into 2022 is krautjazz; that scene fermenting in city basements and performance spaces …
News: Blue Lab Beats will release their debut album for Blue Note in February: hear the sunbright Afro grooves of ‘Motherland Journey’ feat. Fela Kuti and KillBeatz
IT’S A meeting of musical values as well being a perfect colour match: the none-more-esteemed Blue Note Records, 82 years in the game, has announced that the latest addition to its proud roster, the bright Afrojazz textures of London’s Blue Lab Beats, will release their first album for the label, Motherland Journey, on February 25th. …
See: The Delines sleep all day to escape in delicate country-soul togetherness ‘Past The Shadows’
PORTLAND’S lovely The Delines have a first full album in three years coming to us in February, in which they cross country to the Gulf Coast, from there to bring you 11 beautifully wrought tales of lives lived, unremarkable and yet also wholly remarkable, all couched in empathetic retro-soul, lush horns and strings. The album’s …
Track: Washington’s Weeed bring an opulent flute sway to the psych of ‘Do You Fall?’
WEEED are a psych-stoner quartet who began hanging out and rocking the weirder, spliffy end of music together as teenagers, growing up so near yet quite separately to one of America’s big guitar band meccas, Seattle; they hail from across the water in Bainbridge Island, immersed in the glow from the lights from the city, …
See: Telefís – ‘Falun Gong Dancer’: Cathal Coughlan leads us round the weary world in sparse, grandstanding piano
CATHAL COUGHLAN has always been the straight-As kid with the (slightly demonic) pearly white smile and the pocket of stinkbombs in the school hall of indie music; he can’t resist pulling things sideways, to see how they look from somewhere to left of where they might otherwise or properly be. But he does it with …
News: Christian Death’s defining US goth debut ‘Only Theatre Of Pain’ receives an expanded, deluxe reissue in the new year
LOVERS of all things Eighties (read: proper) goth, your attention please; LA’s Frontier Records, in partnership with Cult Epics, has announced it is to reissue Christian Death’s defining debut album, Only Theatre Of Pain, to mark its 40th anniversary in January. And it’s not going to be any old repress, oh no: it’s gonna come …