Indie
News: Thurston Moore to perform Pussy Riot’s Zona.Media event
Thurston Moore has announced that he will be headlining a guerrilla show, in support of Pussy Riot, at London’s Village Underground tonight. Moore is billed to appear along with his band, which includes among its ranks My Bloody Valentine’s former bass player, Debbie Googe. Explaining his support for the Pussy Riot cause, Moore stated that: …
Premiere: Geno Carrapetta – The Guru
We love the off kilter, psych infused Pop of Geno Carrapetta, and we’ve premiered things of his before, so when the opportunity to do so again came up, we jumped all over it. The Guru is taken from the London based Australian’s forthcoming album The Lost Wave, due out on Piscean Records later in the …
Not Forgotten – Billy Bragg – Talking With the Taxman About Poetry
Life’s a Riot With Spy vs. Spy and Brewing Up With Billy Bragg had found Billy Bragg marking out a sonic territory that was a million miles away from the synthetic sounds and plastic production methods that so much 80s music had been blighted with. Having already established his twin songwriting themes of social commentary …
See: Sweet Baboo reveals new video for Got to Hang on to you
Ahead of the release of his fifth album, The Boombox Ballads, out on August 14th through Moshi Moshi, Sweet Baboo aka Stephen Black has released a video for his latest single, Got to hang on to you, which comes out the same day as his album. Black describes Got to hang on to you as …
Track: The Retrospectives – Confusion
Sheffield duo The Retrospectives, aka guitarist Tom Galton and bassist Will Stocks, are back with a new single, Confusion, out tomorrow (June 29th). Taking inspiration from the classic rock of Elvis Costello, Tom Petty, Ryan Adams and The Rolling Stones, the band make very definite guitar music, but judging by previous singles Insane and Gold …
Track: The Earlies – Abandon, plus live shows
It doesn’t seem that long since The Earlies released their debut album, These Were the Earlies, an album that fizzled with this indie neo-psych that drew admirers far and wide. This despite the band having a transatlantic split, with JM Lapham and Brandon Carr residing in Texas, whole Christian Madden and Giles Hatton are the …
Track: Star Horse – Slower Now
We’ve written about Stockholm shoegazers Star Horse before. and so to discover they’re back with a new single, out now through Häxrummet Records on 7” vinyl with B-side ‘Wherever You’ (you can be ordered over at the groups bandcamp) was too good an opportunity to miss. Described by the band as ‘A melancholy ode to …
Not Forgotten: They Might Be Giants – Apollo 18
Apollo 18 is the album that cemented They Might Be Giants as an act that would endure rather than burn briefly. Sure, the hit single “Birdhouse in Your Soul” had dragged its parent album, Flood into the charts in its wake, but TMBG already felt the need to play around with their sound, resulting in …
Track: The Radio Dept. – Occupied
Swedish dream poppers The Radio Dept. returned, rather unexpectedly last September after a four year absence, with a track, Death to Fascism, just in time (or timed perfectly?) for the Swedish elections. Now they’re back for real, with Occupied, taken from their long awaited fourth album, and available now on 12″ limited edition vinyl and …
Psych Insight: EP Review – Array 1 by Loop
When the Pixies released the first of their three EPs after a prolonged absence, back in 2013, many suspected that the decision to stagger their new material was deliberately made to circumvent the critical emphasis that would have been inevitably placed on the songs, had they been released together in the traditional album format. It’s …