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Premiere: It’s all ‘Black & White’ for Sydney singer/songwriter Charlie Gradon – a thundering anthemic world. Plus live shows anounced.
We are honoured to premiere the scything, visceral single and video for ‘Black & White’ from Sydney singer/songwriter Charlie Gradon today. This is an epic and grand track – Gradon’s voice is high and impassioned with a searing quality, driving a dynamic melody and thundering rhythms in a relentless onslaught. Gradon has a mesmerising enigmatic …
Premiere: Blackbirds F.C. exclusively unveil an evocative video for ‘Magiclands’, title track of new album, ahead of album launch.
Blackbirds F.C. have cornered the market in folk-tinged antipodean pop, basking in the radiant sunshine of a nostalgic world that draws in inspiration for the world around them in wry, observational vignettes. This magical land is perfectly encapsulated in the title track to their new album ‘Magiclands’ and the evocative video we are premiering here …
Track: The buoyant and irrepressible Brighton indie popsters Thrillhouse have a ‘Fatal Flaw’ that’s as infectious as it is thrilling.
Brighton outfit Thrillhouse have an inherent ability to deliver the most buoyant and sparkling tracks that combine a degree of hyperactivity with a pop sensibility that positively shimmers. I’ve written this before and will write it again: I just cannot see for the life of me why this band isn’t bigger. They marry an accomplished …
Track: R.J. Andrew (Underground Lovers) releases the gorgeous track ‘The Fates’ ahead of album and gig news
Richard Andrew has a very important day job as the vital provider of beats to the legendary Underground Lovers, and has been moonlighting a solo project under his own name R.J. Andrew. Andrew has many strings to his bow, though – he is an accomplished multi-instrumentalist and composer. This man of many talents has just …
Premiere: Sydney trio Motion Sickness steady the waves with the enigmatic video for the driving, shimmering single ‘This Body’, and announce live dates.
Back in August we were very honoured to bring you the single from Sydney auteur Maia Marsh, and the pleasure is doubled with an exclusive look at the new video from her band Motion Sickness for the track ‘This Body’. ‘This Body’ oozes with a delicious frisson of excitement: a snaky driving bass creates an …
Live Review: Jamie T/ 86TV’s – o2 Academy, Birmingham, 11.11.22
Fresh off the back of his latest album release, Jamie T brings his “The Theory of Whatever Tour” to a sold out Birmingham o2 Academy. The queue to get into the o2 Academy was huge upon arrival, the waiting crowd already in chorus’s of “Jamie, Jamie, Jamie, ******* T”, whilst excitedly entering the Academy. First …
Premiere: Rodney Cromwell unveils the aquatic, effervescent single ‘The Winter Palace’ along with b-side ‘Rod, Jane and Freddy’.
We are very pleased to premiere the electric new single ‘The Winter Palace’ from Rodney Cromwell, the nom de guerre of musician Adam Cresswell, backed by the instrumental ‘Rod, Jane and Freddy’. ‘The Winter Palace’ is a rich and luscious track, opening up with an atmospheric Vangelis-like Blade Runner fugue before launching into an aquatic …
Track: Jet City Sports Club are ‘Feeling It All’: a sprightly, jaunty, bliss bomb slice of pop.
Sydney’s Jet City Sports Club have emanated radiant waves of jangle pop indie joy through their past releases, and in their new single ‘Feeling It All’ they have shrugged off all restraints and unleashed a day-glo bright pop blast that positively shimmers and shakes in the golden sunshine. The high stepping mountain scaling melodies and …
News: Gena Rose Bruce announces new album and unveils the title track ‘Deep Is The Way’, a simmering and beautiful new collaboration with Bill Callahan
The brilliant Gena Rose Bruce has followed up September’s single ‘Foolishly in Love’ with another Bill Callahan (SMOG) collaboration, the beautiful track ‘Deep Is The Way’. This time Callahan not only throws in with songwriting, but he contributes vocals as well. This single is the title track to Bruce’s newly announced album, scheduled for release …
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 …