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Track: Didirri releases dreamy single ‘The Critic’ and announces news of EP ‘Sold for Sale’
Australia’s Didirri is a singular and prodigious talent – we have long followed his career in Backseat Mafia, reviewing his earlier singles – layered, melodic and refreshing indie tracks. Didirri has just announced news of an EP – ‘Sold for Sale’ – available on 25 September which will be supported by a series of live-streamed …
TRACK: Hear Mort Garson’s ‘This Is My Beloved’: Sacred Bones to release quartet of albums
THE WORLD of 60s’ and early 70s’ electronica was full of fascinating, creative mavericks: scientists, polymaths, creatives, all deeply fascinated by the weird things that were happening with the pure and random sound of circuitry. Foremost among them was the Canadian Mort Garson, who began his career with the fantastic space age astrological trippiness of …
TRACK: Martha Fffion – ‘Nights To Forget’: intelligent pop about those evenings you wished you hadn’t
GLASGOW-based, Irish singer-songwriter Claire McKay, better known to acoustic pop aficionados as Martha Ffion and whose 2018 LP Sunday Best was packed to the rafters with sparkling and confessional songwriting, all draped in her clear, sweet tones, has announced a new album – her first for the label that gave her first single release, Lost …
NEWS: MOTORHEAD ALBUM ACE OF SPADES GETS EXCITING 40th ANNIVERSARY REBIRTH
Upon its release in 1980, the ‘Ace Of Spades’ album was nothing short of a game changer for all forms of hard rock. Like lightning in a bottle, it perfectly captured everything great about hard rock, heavy metal, and punk, amped it all up to 11, and came racing out of the gates at what felt like a …
NEWS: Super Furries’ Cian Ciaran marks Hiroshima 75th with six-hour live stream today
AT 4.15AM Japanese time on August 6th, 1945, the world changed forever. The Boeing B-29 Superfortress Enola Gay, of the USAF 393d Bombardment Squadron and named after the pilot Colonel Paul W Tibbet’s mother, operating under call sign Dimples 82, arrived over the Japanese city of Hiroshima and discharged the world’s first atomic strike. An …
NEWS: Live-stream shows from And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead: UK ‘date’ this Friday
FACED by the reality that any chance of getting some gigs under their belt for 2020 was vanishing like a mirage, Austin, TX guitar deities …And You Will Know Us by the Trail of Dead have gone some way to assuaging our collective need by announcing a trio of live-stream shows, with a date especially …
NEWS: MASTODON TURNS 20 & CELEBRATES WITH RELEASE OF AN UNRELEASED SONG ‘FALLEN TORCHES’
Atlanta hard rock juggernaut Mastodon turns 20 this year! Whilst hard at work on their long awaited ninth full-length album, the band have chosen to celebrating two decades together, by releasing a rarities collection, ‘Medium Rarities’, this September 11th, on all formats including a pink vinyl pressing via Reprise Records. Among the many rare highlights included here …
NEWS: LAMB OF GOD ANNOUNCE RESCHEDULED DATES FOR FIRST UK HEADLINE TOUR IN NEARLY EIGHT YEARS
Grammy Award-winning, uncompromising Virginia natives Lamb Of God are pleased to announce they’ve rescheduled their European tour dates, which had been postponed/cancelled due to the Covid-19 pandemic.Originally intended for April 2020, the dates will now be in November & December 2021. Reconfirmed to join them as special guests are labelmates, German thrash classics Kreator, with Texan thrash squad Power …
News: New music venue Future Yard to open in Birkenhead this autumn
A new live music venue will open in Birkenhead this autumn called Future Yard. The venue will follow guidelines in order to launch with ‘Near Normal’ – a series of socially-distanced and digitally streamed shows. Dates for gigs are already in place, starting with a limited capacity show from She Drew The Gun in September …
News: Babybird to release King of Nothing compilation
Like an albatross around his neck, Babybird (the work of Stephen Jones) will always be known for the massive hit ‘You’re Gorgeous‘ – a song that amusingly featured in many a wedding ceremony without people realising its horrifically dark subject matter of abuse and exploitation. And there is no doubt that this is a magnificent …