Indie
Track: Katie Grace – Tangled Up
Award-winning singer songwriter Katie Grace pays an emotional tribute to lifelong friends and her treasured North East on her emotive new single Tangled Up. Katie Grace comments: “I suppose Tangled Up is a reflection on how it felt for me as a teenager to come out of lockdown and suddenly realise how much older all …
News: The Ramona Flowers release new EP ‘Hey You’
The Ramona Flowers are back with their brand-new EP, Hey You, out now via Distiller Records. Listen to Hey You here. The 5 track EP was produced by Dimitri Tikovoi and engineered by Drew Bang. It includes released singles Hey You and Enter The Room, plus the unheard Weapons. The track slides effortlessly into place …
Track: ‘Hurt Me Harder’ – Jacob Fitzgerald unveils a masochistic urge with his sparkling, vivacious new single, ahead of tour.
Jacob Fitzgerald has an ability to craft heartfelt indie pop anthems that sparkle and shimmer with vivacity. His new single, ‘Hurt Me Harder’ is no exception: a bright bouncy track with a cyclic riff that has a thread of deep yearning throughout, aided by Fitzgerald’s velvet tonsils. A saxophone burst adds a lounge room burnish …
Track: Everything is ‘Bright’ for New Zealand’s Marmalade: a shimmering tasty dollop of sweet indie pop, with launch date announced.
Tāmaki Makaurau-based five-piece band Marmalade today release their new single ‘Bright’ – a jangly sparkling track laden with a dusting of melancholy and the sweetest harmonies to ever nest inside your head. With a chorus more expansive and beautiful than the Southern Alps, this is a shimmering piece of pure antipodean indie pop that floats …
Premiere: We are in the Big League now with their new single ‘Dine Out On The Subdivide’ and single launch party.
It is with the greatest of pleasure that we premiere the new single from Melbourne’s venerable Big League, the intriguingly titled ‘Dine Out On The Subdivide’. Driven by a wall of fuzzy guitars and pattering drums, the song crackles with a vitality and power – the high voltage riffs driven by powerful passionate harmony of …
Live Review: Wide Awake Festival – Brockwell Park, London 27.05.23
What a perfect weekend to kick start the festival season, than to head to London, to one of the many one day festivals taking place across the nation with Wide Awake Festival, which is set in Brockwell Park, a stone’s throw away from Brixton tube station. With minimal queues and not so intrusive security, festival …
News: Twisterella Festival Announce Latest Wave Of Acts Including Prima Queen & Shelf Lives And Un(Conference) Programme Announced
Middlesbrough’s forward-thinking music festival Twisterella has shared their latest wave of artists & (un)conference programme for this year’s October event. Newly announced artists include transatlantic duo Prima Queen, post punkers Shelf Lives, psychedelic country poppers Melin Melyn, VENUS GRRRLS, Alien Chicks, Dilettante & more. These acts and more join an already impressive music lineup which …
Track: ‘Shit’s a Thing’ – Super American Eagle are back with a vengeance with an excoriating single and live date.
We premiered Super American Eagle‘s debut single ‘Yes’ last year which received an enormous amount of interest and cleared out a few cobwebs from the brain. And that’s not surprising given the key constituents of the band. The band, based in Melbourne, consists of The Dandy Warhol’s drummer Bent DeBoer, Courtney Barnette’s drummer (playing bass) Dave …
Premiere: Keep a lookout – the forecast is a dreamy ‘Tropical’ blast from Melbourne outfit Old Etiquettes
It is with great pleasure we bring you an early listen to the dreamy track ‘Tropical’ from Melbourne band Old Etiquettes. Propelled by smooth, silky and scything guitars. ‘Tropical’ has a driving insistence with distant, observational, yearning vocals that recalls the louche swagger of bands like Dinosaur Jnr. The vast thunderous rhythms and anthemic choruses …
Track: Sheffield’s The Rosadocs releases a effervescent slice of indie pop with the anthemic ‘At Your Door’.
Straight out of Backseat Mafias’ hometown HQ Sheffield, The Rosadocs have delivered a rocket of a tune with ‘At Your Door’. With sky scraping choruses and a driving unrestrained blast of guitars, this has all the hallmarks of a stadium-filling anthem crafted with a full bellowing delivery. You can put them on the same shelf …