Indie
Track: Desperate Journalist “Perfect Health” Plus tour dates
Desperate Journalist continue to impress and rise above the current indie scene with their latest offering, 5 track EP ‘Good Luck’. Indicating a slight change of perspective for the band, promo-track ‘Perfect Health’ displays all the traits of an indie classic. At first coming across as a sweet reminisce of youthful love, on closer inspection …
Track: The Orielles – Joey Says We Got It, plus tour news
The Orielles are back with a brand new single thoroughly convince you that they’re worth your time. The infuriatingly young trio have consistently impressed us with their tracks – their previous single ‘Space Doubt’ was stuck in my head for days and they always put on a great live show. ‘Joey Says We Got It’ will …
See: Longfellow release video for ‘Choose’
Independent record label Fierce Panda have been around for 21 years, supporting the likes of Death Cab For Cutie and The Crookes, and they’ve reached another milestone this September with the release of their 300th single. The celebratory landmark has been gifted to none other than London-based Longfellow with their song ‘Choose’, a soulful song …
Live Review: St Etienne play Foxbase Alpha, Hebden Bridge Trades Club
They say if you can remember the sixties you weren’t there and the same is true for the rave generation of the nineties. Once they’d got back home from a banging rave in a field the chilled tones of St Etienne’s Foxbase Alpha always helped them return from whichever dimension they’d visited and here are …
Track: The Lion and the Wolf – My Fathers Eyes
Tom George, aka The Lion and the Wolf, is back with a new, second release, My Fathers Eyes. Available as a limited edition 7inch, George is releasing a second single, Bar Stools, from the release. It tells the story of a drunken walk home. “The song is about a time I made a stupid decision …
See: Lionlimb release new video for Turnstile
Out on the 18th September via Bayonet Records comes the new single from Lionlimb – aka Angel Olsen collaborators Stewart Bronaugh and Joshua Jaeger. It comes hot on the heels of a recent tour with Whitney and playing at Shea Stadium in Brooklyn with Frankie Cosmos. It’s full of trippy drums and winding synth lines, …
News: Damaged Goods to release Thee Headcoats singles compilation
Formed by the irrepressibly prolific Billy Childish out of the ashes of his previous band Thee Mighty Ceasars, Thee Headcoats – Childish (Git/Vox) Bruce Brand (Drums) and Johnny Johnson (bass), formed in 1989 they’d already released something like 6 albums and 15 singles by 1992. Continuing at a pace, they released handfuls more records – …
Album Review: Low — Ones and Sixes
Twenty-one years is a long time to be in a band. It’s quite a long time to be married. It’s a really, unbelievably long time to be married to someone in your band. Such is the case with Low’s Alan Sparkhawk and Mimi Parker, whose eleventh album, Ones and Sixes, is out today. Alan’s and …
See: Sweet Baboo reveals new video for Walking in the Rain, plus UK tour dates
He’s been busy, that Steven Black, aka Sweet Baboo. The Welsh troubadour has just released his new album, The Boombox Ballads, and recently played no less than five times at Green Man Festival. Clearly not one for resting on his laurels, he has a new single ‘Walking in the Rain’, out on October 23rd and …
Track: Broken Hands – Who Sent You
Who Sent You, the new single from Canteburys Broken Hands is, according to frontman Dale Norton, a description of “the moment when paranoia takes over from fun experiences and the strange other worldly voice enters your thoughts. You start to question your own trajectory; even asking your friends “is everything okay here?” as if they …