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Track: Julia Holter – Sea Calls Me Home
Ahead of the release of her fourth album, Have you in My Wilderness, Los Angeles based singer songwriter Julia Holter has shown a second glimpse of the new record in the shape of a song, Sea Calls Me Home. The track, which Holter describes as being “about moving away from things that trap you, the …
Track: Squeeze – Happy Days, plus new album details
With the exception of Then Jericho (no, I don’t expect you to remember) the only band of any note that I can remember playing in the close vicinity during my earlier teenage years was Squeeze. Purveyors of pop at its most perfect for some time even at that juncture, the band had found its way …
Track: The Enemy – It’s Automatic
Despite still being in their (admittedly late) twenties, it seems the enemy have been around forever. In fact, their multiple platinum debut album actually reached number one back in 2007. Sad they prepare for the release of album number four, It’s Automatic, out via Warner Records this coming October, the band are ready for a …
Album Review: Yo La Tengo – Stuff Like That There
In the scheme of things, I have to be honest and say I’d prefer a new Yo La Tengo album filled with original songs. That’s just how I feel. Sorry Ira, James, and Georgia. I’d much rather hear newly-penned, original tunes coming out of the YLT camp any day of the week over covers. But …
News: Universal to reissue All About Eve’s first two albums
I think I just felt, deep in the very bottom of my heart, a little jump. It’s been buried there for a good amount of years, but just the mention of All About Eve made it jump. At first, at least for me and All About Eve, it was Julianne Regan, the beautiful, alluring singer …
Track: Blonde Summer – Blazed
Los Angeles four piece Blonde Summer have released their new EP Paradise, and have been gaining attention with their sun drenched stoner rock, which nods to the likes of Tame Impala and their ilk. From the EP take a listen to lead track Blazed, which right from the off has this carefree swagger about it. …
Exclusive: The Half Earth records session track ‘The Balance’ for Backseat Mafia
If you’ve not heard of The Half Earth, essentially the project of Blackpool born, Sheffield based artist Conor Stephenson, then your surely about to. He’s been making achingly beautiful songs that have caught the attention of not only the movers and shakers in the music press but also of woman of the moment Soak, who’s …
Live Review: Sex Witch at Green Man Festival 22.08.15
There had been much curiosity surrounding the identity of the mystery guests who were booked in the Saturday evening of Green Man festival. Names had been thrown around, but no one really knew for certain. With the lack of internet in the Brecon Beacons, it remained to be seen who would the big name would …
Album Review: Bang Gang- The Wolves are Whispering
Iceland act Gang Bang are essentially the project of artist Bardi Johansson, who’s been coming and going from the music scene since 1996. Counting three album releases already in his cannon, his sophomore album in particular highlighted Johansson’s talents – his sense of the melancholy, mostly transmitted by the smooth hypnotical sound of his voice …
See: Sewer Rats release video for Money Maker
Since crawling out of the dark, fetid squalor of a disused fish market, the aptly named, Sewer Rats have been whisked down South and spent the past few months tearing London’s live circuit apart at the seams. Snapped up by Fluffer Records -who picked them as the perfect band to follow up their Love Buzzard …