Alt-Rock
Track: Bruising – Rest In Peace Kurt Donald Cobain (1967-1994) plus UK tour dates
Leeds quartet Bruising have just shared a new track online, ‘Rest In Peace Kurt Donald Cobain (1967-1994)’ which acts as the b-side to their forthcoming single ‘I Don’t Mind’ – out on December 2nd via Beech Coma. Although many artists state their love for the sadly missed Cobain, Bruising take things one step further, although …
Live Review: Justin Currie and the RSNO – Paisley Abbey 17 October 2016 Plus Gallery
Justin Currie, with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, performed tracks from his solo albums and the Del Amitri back catalogue to a reverent congregation of fans and festival goers. A sold-out Paisley Abbey was the beautiful venue for this collaboration between orchestra and songwriter – now a well-established part of the Paisley Spree Festival programme. …
Album Review: Folk Devils – Beautiful Monsters; Singles and Demo Recordings 1984-86
Filed firmly under the criminally ignored banner during their lifetime, a brief flame that was snuffed out almost as soon as it has caught fire in the middle of the 80’s. It’s a light that didn’t look likely reignite either, despite this (and previous) retrospectives, due to the death of frontman Ian Lowery back in …
See: Lanterns on the lake reveal video for ‘The Crawl’, plus your dates
Lanterns On The Lake have been quiet of late, however, they’ve seen fit to furnish us with this sumptuous video for ‘The Crawl’, one of the stand out tracks from recent album ‘Beings’. As singer Hazel puts it; “The Crawl is an invitation to someone. It’s about a magic escapism that transcends the shallow everyday …
Tracks: Picture Atlantic – Billy Banker
San Francisco quartet Picture Atlantic have released their new single Billy Banker, the second single taken from their forthcoming new album, Assouf. The song itself is described by singer/guitarist Nikolaus Bartunek as being “…the satirical archetype for all the young A&R and label reps we’d meet or had met in the past. It’s not so …
See: Jupiter Cats release video for A disengagement party
Balaclava clad London alt-rockers Kupiter Cats are preparing for the release of their first album ‘The truant’, out later this month (the 17th, to be accurate) on Foof records, and it’s preceded by a single, A disengagement party, which is out now as a free download. Almost like two songs welded together, it’s joyous, melodic …
See: Jackal Onasis release new video for album title track Big Deal Party
Brooklyn trio Jackal Onasis (yeah, great name) are Alex Molini (Stove, Big Putts, ex-Dirty Dishes), Jordyn Blakely (Stove, ex-Butter The Children, ex-Night Manager) and Ghoul Man (Sickhead). They’re about to release their debut album, Big Deal Party through Exploding in Sound Records on June 24th, but before that they’ve released some visuals for the albums …
Gallery: Courage My Love – Leeds Milo’s Bar, 21/05/16
Inside the tin can sweat box that is Milo’s Bar in the centre of Leeds a whole cluster of local bands along side Italian rockers Over and headliners, Canadian three piece Courage My Love are ready to showcase themselves. This is Courage My Love’s first ever time in the UK let alone headlining. Made up …
See: Arkells release new video for Private School
Describing Morning Report, the new album from Hamilton quintet Arkells, singer Max Kerman says “Many of the songs are inspired by friends and family: I have a lot of interesting characters in my life and take a lot of joy in being able to write about them. “A lot of songs start from what happened …
Track: Band Of Skulls – So Good
Southampton three piece Band of Skulls follow on from their recent track Killer in offering a new insight into their forthcoming ‘By Default’ album (out 27th May) with a new single, So Good. It begins with echo soaked atmospherics before the vocal lands, and it turns out to be something of a surprise with bassist …