Indie
Track: Ded Rabbit – Only Dating
It’s all coming out of Scotland at the moment, masses of ‘next big things’ sending their catchy, if rather jagged, indie pop our way. Latest in the long line is Edinburgh’s Ded Rabbit, and their new track Only Dating. Written after watching The Imitation Game, its a bawdy, swaggering piece of singalong pop – ridiculously …
Track: Thomas Cohen – Hazy Shades, plus UK tour dates
In some ways, its almost remarkable that former S.C.U.M frontman Thomas Cohen’s album Bloom Forever is being released at all. Its an album that chronicles the songs Cohen wrote between 2012 and 2015, including the period immediately after the unthinkable death of his wife Peaches at the age of just 25. Rather than abandon the …
News: Placebo celebrates 20 year anniversary with World Tour
Legendary alt-rockers Placebo are to celebrate the 20th anniversary of the release of their self-titled platinum selling debut album by heading out on a World tour in October. Kicking off in Denmark on October 13th, the tour passes through the UK in December for a handful of dates. Singer Brian Molko teases “Let’s just say …
Track: Why We Run – A Moment to Return
One of my favourite local Sydney bands, Why We Run, is back with no sign of a waning of their incredible talent. In fact, quite the opposite. I reviewed the debut single, ‘Comfortable Lie’, last year and follow-up release, ‘Ignites’ from with great enthusiasm, and they just keep getting better. Their atmospheric, enigmatic songs fuse …
Album Review: Thao & The Get Down Stay Down – A Man Alive
I’ve always been a big fan of girls with guitars. The nineties brought us a whole new generation of ladies who could rock out. The likes of PJ Harvey, Kristin Hersh and Courtney Love with her band Hole introduced us to those big fuzzy guitars that defined an era, all with added oestrogen. Twenty odd …
Album Review: LNZNDRF – LNZNDRF
Once in a great while a record comes out and completely catches me off guard. Sometimes for the better and sometimes for the worse. With the debut record of LNZNDRF it’s definitely for the better. It’s one of those debuts that comes out of the gate and grabs you instantly. Part euro pop, part Krautrock …
News: Live At Leeds 2016 announce new wave of artists
Live At Leeds returns to celebrate their 10th anniversary this year on Saturday 30th April 2016. Grab a wristband and off you go: it’s your challenge to see as many acts as possible in just one day of live music. This year’s festival headliners are billed as Jess Glynne, Circa Waves, Mystery Jets, Band of Skulls, We …
New Music: Spookyland – Big Head
Isn’t everyone heading to SXSW (well, no – because we aren’t..) this next week. Certainly Sydney quartet Spookyland are one of the hot ticket/next big things that a lot of people are looking forward to. With their debut album Beauty already Beautiful dropping on May 6th via Play it again Sam, the band have released …
Album Review: They Might Be Giants – Phone Power
The third album to be compiled from tracks that They Might Be Giants released on their rebooted Dial-A-Song service on YouTube during 2015, Phone Power has been released as a pay-what-you-want download, and will be released in more traditional formats in the future. So far, so Radiohead. TMBG fans knew that a third album of …
See: Clean Cut Kid release new video for In your eyes
Ahead of their record store release ‘Pick me Up’, Liverpool four piece Clean Cut Kid have released the b-side ‘In your eyes’. It comes on the back of their two previous singles ‘Vitamin C’ and ‘Runaway’, and sees the band poised to go across and play SXSW, having sold out their forthcoming headline dates, which …