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News: Fuzztones celebrate their 40 year anniversary with new studio album – NYC
Garage Rock Revivalists Fuzztones Celebrate Their 40 Year Anniversary With A Heartfelt Love Letter To Their Home City On New Album! The city of New York has been the epicenter of American music ever since Duke Ellington told composer Billy Strayhorn to take the “A” train from Brooklyn to Harlem in 1940. Sinatra, The Dolls, …
TRACK: Little Barrie & Malcolm Catto – ‘After After’: heady psych rock teases November album
WELL, there’s a proper getting together of headz, lads. This is gonna be fun, no doubt about that. Nottingham’s garage-psychesters Little Barrie have decided to get some infused-sugarcube groove on in the studio and lay down an album with none other than Heliocentrics’ guru Malcolm Catto. Electric music for the mind and body, for sure. …
News: Bowling For Soup Announce 2021 UK Tour With Lit And The Dollyrots
Bowling For Soup are returning to the UK in 2021 with hope of some fun in the sun! The Texan crown princes of pop punk will be jetting back to their home away from home to embark on their first ever UK tour completely focused on seaside towns. The tour will begin in the very grand …
NEWS: The Gun Club’s classic ’82 set ‘Miami’ gets expanded reissue
WHEN Jeffrey Lee Pierce and Brian Tristan first got together to form a band in Los Angeles in 1979, they were both fans; mega-fans. Jeffrey headed up the LA branch of the Blondie fan club; Brian, later better known as Kid Congo Powers, the Ramones fan club. But no one could’ve guessed, for all their …
TRACK: Cabaret Voltaire – ‘The Power (Of Their Knowledge)’: eerie and portentous tronica for our world today
SHEFFIELD’S Cabaret Voltaire, poised to release their first new album in more than a quarter-century for Mute next month, have dropped another chill, single-track postcard portent from the electronic edge in “The Power (Of Their Knowledge)”. Take a listen with us. The new album, Shadow Of Fear, is the Cabs’ first release with Richard H Kirk as sole …
TRACK: Lee Fields & The Expressions – ‘Two Timer’: crackin’ soul from the Big Crown vaults
BROOKLYN’S unparalleled Big Crown, who know soul and a brilliant retro groove when they see one, have decided to go a-peerin’ into the vaults, bringing some lost session treasure into the light; and to this end they’re launching a new series that does exactly what it says on the tin: Big Crown Vaults. The label …
NEWS: BFI to premiere new Delia Derbyshire film – watch the trailer
CAROLINE CATZ’S hotly anticipated new film about the life of Doctor Who theme writer and all-round early electronica genius Delia Derbyshire: The Myths & The Legendary Tapes is to be premiered by the British Film Institute as part of the 2020 London Film Festival in the middle of this month. The conceptual, atmospheric journey into the …
TRACKS: Actress shares two new tracks from his new album for Ninja
IF ONE artist was going to send out a press release for their new record styled on the redacted copy of a government report it is Darren Cunningham, aka Actress. Cryptic, obtuse, secretive and illusive, Cunningham has been the checkpoint of the techno/electronic border crossing for over a decade now. There have been seminal releases …
NEWS: Oneohtrix Point Never announces October album; hear the prelude suite
DANIEL LOPATIN, the boundary-pushing New York producer behind the Oneohtrix Point Never moniker, has announced a new album with Bridget Riley-style eye-dazzling cover art – and equally potent and bewitching sonics contained within. Magic Oneohtrix Point Never will be with us on October 30th on Warp, and keeps the conceptual flow going. 2018’s acclaimed Age …
SEE: Quantic – ‘Theme From Selva’: vinyl to follow, Selva label comp announced
WILL HOLLAND, the Brooklyn-based, British-born musician who dazzles us with his absolute nous in a array of deeply danceable styles, has announced a twin celebration for the first anniversary of his imprint, Selva Records. He’s releasing a compilation looking back at the eclectic grooves he’s been producing in his long-dreamt of, handcrafted studio this year, …