Indie
Live Review: DMA’S / Pacific Avenue – Roundhouse, London 29.10.2022
Packed with singalong anthems The DMA’s Perform an electrifying show at the Roundhouse and this is their first major UK show since upping the notch and playing the iconic Alexandra Palace back at the tail end of 2021 with a large production value. The three piece band formed in Sydney in 2012 and are composed …
News: The legendary Yo La Tengo announce new album ‘This Stupid World’ with single ‘Fallout’ as a tasty aperitif.
Yo La Tengo have been on the forefront of indelibly melodic indie pop for decades and it is comforting to see their return with the announcement of a new album – their sixteenth – ‘This Stupid World’, due out on 10 February 2023 through Matador Records/Remote Control Records. As a first taste of what’s to …
News: Stockton Calling Announces 2023 Festival Headliners
Organisers have announced the first of their headliners for Stockton Calling 2023, a day-long music festival which takes place in Stockton-On-Tees across multiple venues and spaces on Saturday 8 April 2023. The melodic indie rock outfit Circa Waves will be the headline act for The Point stage at ARC, Stockton Arts Centre. Circa Waves were …
News: Stella Donnelly has announced a tour in support of her acclaimed new album ‘Flood’
Stella Donnelly will be bringing her ‘Flood’ tour to Australia.
Track: The Lathums – Say My Name; Announce New Album And UK Tour
Wigan’s The Lathums have announced the release of their second album ‘From Nothing To A Little Bit More’ due 24th February 2023 via Island Records with the huge new single ‘Say My Name’. The band have also announced their biggest UK tour to date. Reflecting on the track, Singer Alex Moore comments: “’Say My Name’ is …
Track: Last Living Cannibal – Samson
Last Living Cannibal (Hastings based Allister Kellaway) has released the video for his latest single, ‘Samson’ featuring Norwegian art-pop star Eera on backing vocals. The single is taken from his forthcoming EP, ‘On A Perfect Earth’ due on the 25th of November via Nothing Fancy. Kellaway explains: “’Samson’ is about feeling like things are crumbling around you a bit, like at any moment things could give way and the house …
Track: Balancing Act Share Video For Track ‘Cold’
With their debut EP ‘Malice In Tone’, due 4th November, indie rockers Balancing Act have shared the video for track ‘Cold’. The band comments: ‘‘Cold’ was the first song written where we felt as though we’d struck on a sound that was uniquely ours. After that the rest of the songs on this EP started …
Live Review: Carm Supporting Bon Iver – Wembley Arena, London 25.10.2022
Opening the show for Bon Iver is a huge honour and no mean feat for any artist. However, CJ Camerieri has worked with Justin Vernon before as a member of Bon Iver and has his own impressive list of collaborators; Paul Simon, Sufjan Stevens, The National, John Legend and co-founder of the classical ensemble yMusic, …
EP: Salarymen bring a ray of heady sunshine with their ‘Head In The Sand’.
Salarymen have perfected a luminescent sixties-infected pop sunshine buzz in their songs, which have been collected in a dazzling array in their new EP ‘Head In The Sand’. Opening track ‘Summer’s Coming’ is blinding with its light headed optimism and positively bounces as it extols the virtues of sunshine and holidays with tongue-in-cheek anodyne lyrics: …
Album Review: Tanya-Lee Davies is in ‘Dreamland’: a wonderful realm of slow burning vignettes that simmer with a melodic intensity.
The music of Melbourne’s Tanya-Lee Davies has a sixties beehive velvet blush about it – a sort of Dusty Springfield/Nancy Sinatra slow waltz to something powered by Burt Bacharach or Jimmy Webb, with a touch of self-deprecating antipodean humour. Her album ‘Dreamland’ is a wonderful collection of wry, bittersweet tunes that are infused with a …