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Track: Jack Cooper – Fat Old Sun, plus European Tour Dates
Who doesn’t like a good Pink Floyd song? Certainly Jack Cooper, also of Ultimate Painting, does because he’s released his own cover of Floyd’s Fat Old Sun. Of the cover he says “I was selling merch at the last show of my US tour and a guy who had bought a record told me that …
New: Charlie Barnes announces UK tour dates
Sometime Bastille touring sideman Charlie Barnes has announced a full-band UK tour ahead of the release of his sophomore album ‘Oceanography’ ‘Oceanography’, his second album for Superball Music is the follow up to 2015’s post-pop monster ‘More Stately Mansions’, finds Barnes in a different place in his life. The past two years have seen huge …
Track: Sunflower Bean – Crisis Fest, plus album news
Sunflower Bean announce their new album and share the life-affirming power-pop of new single ‘Crisis Fest’. Sunflower Bean have announced the release of their second album ‘Twentytwo in Blue’ (released on 23 March via Lucky Number), which will come out when all three members of the New York band will be 22 years old – …
News: Charlotte Gainsbourg announces European/Japanese tour dates
With the sound of her current single ‘Songbird in a cage’, co-written by Sir Paul McCartney, rattling around your radios, Charlotte Gainsbourg had revealed a run of European and Japanese tour dates, including a show at London’s Village Underground on March 29th. It’ll be her first appearance on the capital since her acclaimed performance at …
See: Car Seat Headrest reveals video for Nervous Young Inhumans, plus album news and tour dates
“It was never a finished work,” Will Toledo aka Car Seat Headrest says of his 2011 Bandcamp album Twin Fantasy, “and it wasn’t until last year that I figured out how to finish it.” With the success he’s had over the last year, he’s now tackled the record again, re-recorded and re-imagined it, and it …
Track: Ezra Furman – Suck the blood from my wound, plus UK tour dates
His new album ‘Transangelic Exodus’ is still a month away from its 9th February release on Bella Union, and already Ezra Furman has released a couple of singles from it in the shape of ‘Driving Down To L.A.’ and ‘Love You So Bad’. Add to that a third now with ‘Suck the blood from my …
News: The Low Anthem reveal new concept album, watch album trailer
The eminent classical avant garde composer John Cage visited the music college I attended in my youth. Little did he expect, I’m sure, after a detailed explanation of his chance music and various prepared piano experiments to be asked questions which included ‘Do you like fish and chips?’ and ‘Do you want to come with …
Track: Superchunk – Erasure, plus new album news and UK/European tour dates
Out on February 16th on the ever brilliant Merge Records, What a time to be alive is the new album from legendary alt rockers Superchunk. It features a host of guest backing vocalists including Sabrina Ellis (A Giant Dog, Sweet Spirit), Skylar Gudasz, and David Bazan “Part of that was wanting a feeling of community,” …
News: Bradford to reissue Shouting Quietly plus extras via A Turntable friend
Ah, Bradford. If you’ve followed Backseat Mafia through the years, you’ll be well aware of our devotion to Blackburns skinhead indie soulboys Bradford. A light that shines so brightly it caught Morrisseys attention, who covered the fantastic Skin Storm, and was blown away by bad luck – namely the collapse of Rough Trade distribution and …
See: Pale Waves release video for New Year’s Eve / announce North American tour, plus UK/EU dates
Manchester three piece Pale Waves have today been announced as part of the prestigious BBC Sound of 2018 Shortlist, taking the #5 spot. It the latest in a spectaular year for the band, who have been the toast of tastemaker town (I just thought of that, is it too cheesy) with much expected of their …