indie tracks
Track: Ty Segall & Cory Hanson – She’s a Beam single resurfaces
Half a decade ago, the Aussie garage rock dynamo teamed with Cory Hanson of Wand to create this single and it’s equally enthralling B-side “Milk Bird Flyer”. Swiftly becoming a feverish Reddit discussion, “She’s a Beam” was first debuted as a similar but tamer acoustic version, before recently being rediscovered. All profits of the initial week’s sales …
Track: Skullcrusher – Don’t Show
You must be thinking is it thrash, doom or drone? None of these – Skullcrusher is the project of LA based songwriter Helen Ballentine who makes rich acoustic sounds that lean in the new folk direction. Having shifted from an art college/gallery pathway to focus all her creative energy on music, Ballentine seems to have …
Gettin’ under the covers: Death Valley Girls new 7″
LA glam-punkers Death Valley Girls are looking to drill further into that hole in yo’ soul with a brace of cover versions out on limited 7” from this Friday, June 12th. And they’ve shared the title track online to lure you in. The title track is “Breakthrough”, a cover of the heavy scented organ boogie …
Track: Andy Bell remixes bdrmm’s ‘Reason To Celebrate’
IT’S a marriage made in (sonic) heaven: new-skool Yorkshire shoegazers bdrmm have debuted a remix of their current single, “Reason To Celebrate” by Ride man Andy Bell. Working under his GLOK nom-de-plume, Andy has taken the anthemic original – with its yearning refrain and towering guitars very much in the early Creation-era Ride vein and …
Track: Wee Cherubs – Dreaming
Originally out in 1984 on the short-lived Glasgow based label Bogatan, Dreaming was Glasgows the Wee Cherubs only commercial release, written by Martin Cotter who found (relative in comparison) fame in The Bachelor Pad. Backed by a version of The Velvet Underground’s ‘Waiting for my Man’, it’s original run didn’t sell well, due in part …
Track: LIFE – Switching On (Idles Remix)
Following on from the release of their recent single Switching On, Hull band LIFE have shared a new remix by Bristol’s Mercury nominated scamps, Idles. The remix was done by the bands guitarist and friends of LIFE, Mark Bowen, who says of the remix:“I have watched LIFE play live well over 100 times and one …
Track: Bo Ningen – Minimal
London based Japanese band Bo Ningen have been steadily evolving their cathartic noise rock statements into something more expansive and diverse over the last few years. In fact even at their most Melt Banana they have always injected some melodic psyche overtones and a feel for song structure into their music. Now after three LPs …
Track: Blue River – ‘Tetsuo’
Out this Friday from These Bloody Thieves Records, the new single from Cornwall band Blue River with Tetsuo. We are thrilled to host this track ahead of release. The track is a powerful stomping shot of rock and roll adrenaline. Taken from the Japanese for ‘clear thinking man’ the track the band states is about …
News: PJ Harvey – Entire Back Catalogue Reissued On Vinyl Also Release Of Dry-Demos
UMC/Island and Beggars today announce a comprehensive reissue campaign which will see PJ Harvey’s entire back catalogue – plus her two albums in collaboration with John Parish – released on vinyl over the next 12 months. For the first time, each of PJ Harvey’s album demos will be available as a stand-alone album on digital and vinyl. This catalogue …
Track: Trent Halliday – Get Close
Essex Singer-songwriter Trent Halliday has released a new track ‘Get Close’, written this year and taken from a forthcoming album, details of which to follow. Trent says of the process and the current climate, “….I have been recording a new album. All of the songs for it have been written this year. Those written before …