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News: Charity album released in aid of CALM/CALMzone
Out now on Bandcamp, is a charity album, called ‘Music Against Living Miserably’ supporting The CALMzone/ CALM (Campaign Against Living Miserably) featuring 20+ songs by UK Punk,Indie, Alternative Rock, Acoustic and Experimental bands and artists. These include, Fuzz and The Felts, Das Kapitans, The Scuts, Elvis Valentine and the ghosts of chance, Fyzz Wallis Band …
NEWS: Bill Callahan drops a gold record in September
EVERYONE’S favourite gravelly, bass-voiced, sad-eyed chronicler, Bill Callahan, has announced a new LP – Gold Record – just a year on since Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest. While Bill was preparing to take Shepherd In A Sheepskin Vest out on the road across the globe, for a period of perhaps a year, he opened the notebooks, pulled …
NEWS: Shop Assistants’ singer reported to have died
IT’S been reported across C86 newsgroups and fan sites over the past 48 hours that Alex Taylor, dulcet singer with Edinburgh’s great and ramshackle Shop Assistants and later of The Motorcycle Boy, has died – as long ago as 2005. The Shop Assistants formed in the Scottish capital in 1984, and were originally called Buba …
NEWS: tickets on sale Friday for rearranged Lanterns on the Lake tour
BELLA UNION’S premiere Geordie shoegazers Lanterns on the Lake, whose spring tour was pulled due to the covid-19 virus, have announced the rearranged dates for February and March 2021. And this has given the band a chance to expand the dates. The band said: “We have upgraded some of the venues that had sold out, …
News: BOB To release ‘You can stop that for a start’ album
80s/90s indie upstarts BOB have announced they are releasing a new album ‘You can stop that for a start’ via Optic Nerve on September 25th. The band, beloved of far too few people during their original existence despite three Peel sessions and the magnificent ‘Convenience’ featuring in the Festive Fifty of 1989. The release is …
Track: Phoebe Bridgers – I See You
Last month, Phoebe Bridgers confirmed details of her second solo album, Punisher, to be released via Dead Oceans on June 19th 2020.Today, she shares another song from the album. Originally entitled “ICU” the song’s spelling has been changed to “I See You” for its release on digital platforms. Bridgers explains the title change with: “*gestures …
News: Last Night From Glasgow to release fundraising compilation
Not-for-profit label Last Night From Glasgow have launched The Isolation Sessions, a compilation to be released on vinyl, CD and digital download in order to raise funds for their beloved Glasgow venues and record shops affected by the Covid-19 lockdown.Featuring artists from the label’s roster covering their favourite past releases from LNFG acts. The project …
TRACK / NEWS: JIMMY EAT WORLD RELEASES COVER OF CROOKED FINGERS’ “CALL TO LOVE” FEAT. BETHANY COSENTINO
They originally performed the song to conclude their special livestream on April 17th for Stinkweeds Records to commemorate what would have been Record Store Day. Frontman Jim Adkins and the band were joined by Best Coast’s Bethany Cosentino to perform a cover of Crooked Fingers’ “Call to Love”. It has now been released via RCA. “I thought I’d take advantage of the …
Track / News: Lucy Dacus Covers Tom Courtenay as Matador announces Yo La Tengo Electro-O-Pura reissue
Matador Records have announced the latest addition of their ‘Revisionist History’ series is the 25th anniversary reissue of Yo La Tengo’s 1995 album ‘Electro-o-pure’. Vinyl fans will be salivating at the album is now in a gatefold sleeve and has been cut from the 58 minute master. It’s pressed for the first time on two …
News: Oh Sees announce new UK & EU tour dates, plus Autumn North American tour
We all need something to look forward to once this lockdown eventually ends. Cue the best live band in the world (or so they’ve been billed as, and who are we to disagree) announcing their updated UK tour dates. Initially planned for May, the UK tour was postponed due to the cancellations caused by COVID-19. …