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NEWS: Cory Hanson announces second solo LP; see the country-psych grace of ‘Paper Fog’
CORY HANSON, singer-guitarist with LA psych seducers Wand, has today unveiled the video for “Paper Fog”, a very first preview of what’s to come from his second extra-curricular outing, Pale Horse Rider, due from the dependably lovely Drag City come spring. Watch the video, below. Drag City say “it’s a record as much about Los Angeles …
NEWS: The Orb announce live stream date and remixes album – hear David Harrow’s rerub of ‘Haze’
SEMINAL techno groovesters and occasional pranksters of legend The Orb have a brace of excellently exciting news announcements for all you space cadets out there. Firstly, they’re gonna play their first-ever livestream gig to bring a little festive cheer, from 10pm on Saturday, December 19th, entitled ‘This Is Not Here’. What promises to be an immersive, …
NEWS: M. Ward announces Billie Holiday covers album; hear ‘For Heaven’s Sake’
YOUR humble scribe has loved Portland’s M. Ward since right back in the days of The Transfiguration of St Vincent – his beautiful 2003 album full of his mellifluous voice, incredible guitar skills (if you’ve ever seen him live, you can pay testament to him somehow being two or three guitarists at once) and songs …
NEWS: Hanya announce tour dates; hear ‘Monochrome’
BRIGHTON’S gorgeous rising dreampop outfit Hanya, who we last heard of back in July, when they declared hometown label Austerity Records’ Cassette Club open with their very fine Sea Shoes EP (read our review), have dropped a new single, “Monochrome”; take a listen below. “Monochrome” is an effortless glide of sweet indie pop with a …
NEWS: The Wedding Present announce album of lockdown versions and more – see the stripped back ‘Crawl’
ALL THIS viral mess around us: it’s meant musicians have had to lock and load, get going as the going got tough. Plates, stepped up to. New ways adopted. New records made. And you can bet your bottom dollar that David Gedge’s The Wedding Present wouldn’t sit back and let it wash it over them. …
NEWS: The Lathums’ one-only 7″ ‘The Snake’ raises £4,000 for the Latics
BACK in September we reported on Wigan’s indie chosen few, The Lathums, and the equal parts excellent and fun fundraising idea they’d got going in order to raise funds for their hometown football club, Wigan Athletic, and its community trust: they were gonna record a cover of Al Wilson’s legendary northern soul classic, “The Snake”; …
NEWS: Gazelle Twin & NYX announce March album – hear their distention of The Wicker Man’s ‘Fireleap’
GAZELLE TWIN: love her or baffled by her, you cannot deny the deep, artful, playful, pranksterish, eerie, sheer damn potency of her work. The creative extension of composer Elizabeth Bernholz, her last album, Pastoral, held a mirror up to the steadfast old folk tales and traditions of Merrie England, fucked that mirror into unimaginable and truer …
NEWS: Martha Ffion to play live-streamed session this week – see “Rosalie”
LOST MAP’s smoothly sweet singer-songwriter Martha Ffion is pleased as punch to announce (as should we be) a live-streamed session this week. The live sesh has been commissioned by Lost Map as part of the label’s Postmap Club: a proper, old-fashioned club with real actual postcards, badges, first dibs on things, newsletters, remixes, exclusive tracks, …
TRACK: Phoebe Bridgers releases EP of orchestral reversions; hear ‘Kyoto’
LA’S lovely Phoebe Bridgers releases a new four-track EP, Copycat Killer, on Dead Oceans on December 4th; it features all-new recordings of songs from her critically acclaimed album Punisher from earlier this year. She’s given them a different spin from the Punisher versions, pulling them away from their adorable lo-fi roots and towards a cinematic, …
NEWS: TAAHLIAH makes history, scooping twice at the Scottish Alternative Music Awards
THE ELEVENTH Scottish Alternative Music Awards (SAMA) ceremony was held – with the privations of the virus this year – online on Wednesday gone, November 18th. This year’s virtual ceremony to recognise the best new Scottish music was streamed globally via Twitch, with viewers from across Europe, the USA and even Brazil. Radio DJ and …