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News: Mdou Moctar Announces New Album ‘Tears For Injustice’ Out Feb 28 via Matador Records
If ‘Funeral For Justice’ was the sound of outrage, ‘Tears Of Injustice’ is the sound of grief. Mdou Moctar’s new album is ‘Funeral For Justice’ completely re-recorded and rearranged for acoustic and traditional instruments. It is an evolution of the band’s critically-adored breakout – the meditative mirror-image to the blistering original. Listen to ‘Imajighen (Injustice Version)’, below: In July of 2023, …
Track: Mdou Moctar Share Track ‘Oh France’; New Album Out Now
Mdou Moctar have released their much-anticipated new album, ‘Funeral for Justice’. Along with the album release the band have shared the record’s penultimate track, ‘Oh France’, a fiery indictment of French colonialism that stands among the group’s heaviest songs to date. A full five minutes of fretboard-melting guitar virtuoso with a thunderous backing and Moctar’s melodic …
Track: Mdou Moctar – Imouhar
Mdou Moctar have shared the video, directed by Laura Greenhall, for their second single ‘Imouhar’, taken from the bands forthcoming album, ‘Funeral For Justice’, due out on the 3rd of May via Matador. ‘Imouhar’ calls on the Tuareg people to which the band belong to preserve their Tamasheq language – it’s at risk of dying out, …
Track: Mdou Moctar – Funeral For Justice
Nigerien quartet Mdou Moctar are set to release their new album ‘Funeral For Justice’ on the 3rd of May. Recorded at the close of two years spent touring the globe following the release of 2019 breakout Afrique Victime, it captures the Nigerien quartet consisting of Moctar, rhythm guitarist Ahmoudou Madassane, drummer Souleymane Ibrahim, and American bassist and …
News: Fucked Up Release ‘44th & Vanderbilt’ EP, ‘The Chemistry Of Common Life’ 15th Anniversary Vinyl Edition Out Now
Last autumn, we celebrated the 15th anniversary of Fucked Up’s The Chemistry of Common Life – an era-defining punk LP that also just so happened to be the Canadian band’s Matador Records debut. This Friday, our long-in-the-works orange vinyl 2xLP reissue will finally arrive on shelves. Find that HERE. Today, you can listen to a …
News: Fucked Up To Release ‘The Chemistry of Life’ 15th Anniversary Vinyl Edition, Watch New Video For ‘Black Albino Bones’
Originally released October 7th, 2008, ‘The Chemistry of Common Life’ is the second album by Toronto punk band Fucked Up. Today, we celebrate the record’s 15th anniversary with the promise of a fresh-looking orange vinyl reissue due out February 23rd. Pre-order it HERE. The band has also completed a new video for the song “Black …
News: Cool London indie trio bar italia sign to Matador and release the slow burning track ‘Nurse!’ and UK/European tour dates.
London trio bar italia have been building quite a reputation for their minimalist brand of cool indie rock, and this has lead to their signing with iconic US label Matador and the release of new single ‘Nurse!’. With its louche, laconic style and dual vocals, this is an enigmatic and slow burning fuse of a …
News: The legendary Yo La Tengo announce new album ‘This Stupid World’ with single ‘Fallout’ as a tasty aperitif.
Yo La Tengo have been on the forefront of indelibly melodic indie pop for decades and it is comforting to see their return with the announcement of a new album – their sixteenth – ‘This Stupid World’, due out on 10 February 2023 through Matador Records/Remote Control Records. As a first taste of what’s to …
News: Horsegirl release ‘History Lesson Part 2’ (Minutemen Cover)
HORSEGIRL RELEASE‘HISTORY LESSON PART 2’(MINUTEMEN COVER) DEBUT ALBUMVERSIONS OF MODERN PERFORMANCEOUT NOW VIA MATADOR Horsegirl has had a stellar year. Versions of Modern Performance, out now on Matador, “is such a realised debut that it may itself influence a later generation down the road” (Ringer, Best Albums of 2022 So Far). It received glowing praise from The New …
News: Algiers announce new album for February and release new single featuring Zack De La Rocha & tour dates
ALGIERS ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUMSHOOKFEBRUARY 24 LISTEN TO NEW SINGLE‘IRREVERSIBLE DAMAGE’ FEAT. ZACK DE LA ROCHA AN ALBUM RECORDED WITH BIG RUBE (THE DUNGEON FAMILY), ZACK DE LA ROCHA, BILLY WOODS, BACKXWASH, MARK CISNEROS (HAMMERED HULLS), SAMUEL T. HERRING (FUTURE ISLANDS), JAE MATTHEWS (BOY HARSHER), LATOYA KENT (MOURNING [A] BLKSTAR), NADAH EL SHAZLY, DEFORREST BROWN JR. …