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Say Psych: Track: RF Shannon – Tooth Ache
RF Shannon is the psychedelic-folk project of Shane Renfro. Having recently returned to the US from a European tour playing alongside Jess Williamson supporting Kevin Morby, Renfro is gearing up for the release of his new full-length album, Trickster Blues, on 4th May on Fuzz Club Records in Europe and Cosmic Dreamer in the US. …
Album Review : Holy Wave’s ‘Adult Fear’
There’s a dusty, ‘road trip to nowhere good’ vibe to Holy Wave. They make the kind of grainy, 8mm-type of garage rock that feels like one of those gloomy yard sale finds. Searching through a damp cardboard box of LPs marked “.50 or best offer” you find various copies of Herb Albert & The Tiujana …
See: Watch the new video from Ben Millburn for his track ‘I’ll Go’
If his first EP, Part One – Strange love and consequence, was about a recurring dream, then the latest in a set of EPs entitled ‘The Balance EP’s’ from Louisiana born and Austin based singer-songwriter Ben Millburn is about dealing with them. Whereas it’s predecessor was a loud affair, so this new EP, Local Honey …
Album Review: Purple – Bodacious
Texas three piece Purple have released their latest album Bodacious, through PIAS. If you’re unfamiliar with their work, think noisey, frayed at the edges power-pop, with a heap of punk attitude and some wonky arty chord progressions thrown in for good measure. It’s this mixture of the quirky and the catchy and the sour that …
See: Holy Wave release new video for ‘Minstrel’s Gallop’
Austin, Texas based five piece Holy Wave have released some new visuals for their track Minstrel’s Gallop, taken from their latest album Freaks of Nurture, out now on The Reverberation Appreciation Society records. It has this frankly gorgeous swirl about the whole thing, as these guitar riffs and accompanying organ sweep under the vocals, which …
Streets of Laredo – Hey Rose
Despite obvious problems with their national rugby union side, I have a massive soft spot for Kiwis. I didn’t know this bunch were from NZ (albeit now based in Brooklyn in New York), but I’m also a sucker for country and a bit of folk and their name seemed to fit that bracket. I was …