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Track: Augustines – When things fall apart, plus UK tour dates
When things fall apart is the new single from Brooklyn’s Augustines, and is taken from their forthcoming This Is Your Life LP, the bands first new material since their self-titled debut, which dropped in in 2014. The band recorded the album with Joe Chiccarelli and Peter Katis at studios in New York and Los Angeles. …
See: Flatbush Zombies release new video for ‘This is it’
Brooklyn rap trio Flatbush Zombies, aka Meechy Darko, Zombie Juice and Erick Arc Elliott are one of the hottest acts in Hip-Hop right now, having released a couple of mixtapes and their highly regarded Clockwork Indigo EP since their inception in 2012. Ahead of their debut album 3001: A laced Odyssey the band are following …
Track: Take Berlin – Motion
Out today is Motion, the new track from Brooklyn duo Take Berlin. It took a chance meeting between the pair, both musicians, Yvonne Ambrée who does backings for little boots and sleigh bells on occasion, and Jesse Barnes, who plays guitar in aloe blacc’s band. We asked the band “are you guys always in “motion”? …
Album Review: Sunflower Bean – Human Ceremony
By Ryan Jameson Weaver Our music industry moves so fast that a band can come out with something so unique and amazing that it is relevant for a week and then bounces into waves anonymity right after. Take for example, the last My Bloody Valentine album, MBV, an album 20 years in the making, from …
Track: We Are Temporary – Who’s going to love me now?
“I feel left out by all of the love around. / What absorbs me, holds me in?” questions Brooklyn’s Mark Roberts, aka We Are Temporary in his new single, Who’s going to love me now? Written while separated from his wife, it’s a raw and almost desperate song. Taken from his debut album Crossing Over, …
Track: Charles Bradley – Change for the World
Since when was an album by a 67 year old viewed as one of the most anticipated albums of the year? Well, it transpires since Brooklyn soul singer Charles Bradley announced his new record, Changes, out on April 1st via Dunham / Daptone records. Before being discovered, Bradley had led a hard, unremitting life struggling …
News: DIIV announce Spring European Tour
Brooklyn based shoegazers DIIV are gearing up to the release of their second album, Is The Is Are, a 17 song double album out this Friday (5th Feb) via Captured Tracks. Ahead of that, the follow up to critically acclaimed debut Oshin,they’ve announced a mammoth European tour this Spring taking in a handful of dates …
Track: Dead Stars – In My Mind
In My Mind, the new single from Brooklyn trio Dead Stars owes a lot to the 90s indie (power) pop of the likes of Weezer, Dinosaur Jr and The Lemonheads, but there’s something more than that. There’s still the wash of guitars and the slacker rock vocal lines and the slightly angsty feeling that permeates …
Track: Joseph Sant – Nor’easter
Joseph Sant, originally from Seattle but now ensconced in Brooklyn is about to release his debut EP, Sea White Salt, on January 14th next year. It’s wrapped up in tales of the forces of nature, love, dreams and hopes and a whole lot of things inbetween. It was recorded with Gabriel Gavin during a few …
See: FaltyDL releases new video for “The Ah Track”
Out last week on the brilliant Ninja Tune label was the new 12″ from Brooklyn-based DJ and producer Drew Lustman, aka FaltyDL. It follows on from his recent Rich Prick Poor Dick 12″, and featured two tracks, The Ah Track and Visceral. He’s now released a video for the former track, a real dancefloor filler …