Swedish, London based band Francobollo have returned with new single ‘Hoo Ha’ — the first material since their acclaimed 2017 debut album ‘Long Live Life’. Produced by Charlie Andrew (alt-J, Sivu, Marika Hackman, MONEY etc) -‘Hoo Ha’ is an exemplary return from the unpredictable 4-piece. Speaking a little more on the new track, frontman Simon […]
Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley (White Fence) have teamed up for a second album as DRINKS. The new album, Hippo Lite, will be released on Drag City worldwide on April 20, 2018. DRINKS began in 2015 with the release of their debut LP, Hermits on Holiday on Presley’s own Birth Records. Today they’ve shared […]
Currently in the middle of their sold-out UK tour supported by Phill Jupitus as Porky The Poet and Mr Ben and The Bens, The Lovely Eggs reveal the mind-melting new video for their new single “Wiggy Giggy”, which is due out on 7″ on Friday 16 February, from the album This Is Eggland, out on […]
With her spell-binding fourth album, ‘Dead Magic’ set for release on March 2nd 2018 via City Slang, Anna von Hausswolff has shared second track ‘The Truth, The Glow, The Fall’ from the record. ‘Dead Magic’, Anna von Hausswolff’s fourth album, is five songs extending over 47 minutes and 20 seconds and was composed in the […]
Spanish quartet Hinds – Carlotta Cosials, Ana Perrotte, Ade Martin and Amber Grimbergen – have announced their long-awaited second record ‘I Don’t Run’. Out April 6th via Lucky Number, the new album shows a bigger, better, faster, funnier, more dexterous Hinds. Co-produced by the band and Gordon Raphael [The Strokes, Regina Spektor], and engineered by […]
Amyl and the Sniffers are a punk band possessed by the spirit of seventies Australian rock. Amy Taylor (vocals), Bryce Wilson (drums), Dec Martens (guitar) and Gus Romer (bass) are former housemates who formed the band, wrote a handful of tunes and released their debut EP, Giddy Up, all in a span of 12 hours. […]
London-based post-punk four-piece H.Grimace have shared the new video for their album track ‘Lipsyncer’. Director Kris Rimmer explained the video, “Hannah (the lead singer) and I wanted to create a video that echoed the contemporary issues raised in the song’s lyrics. In her own words, the track is about “young men or women attempting to replicate […]
This is the year that Mo Kenney plugs in, the Canadian singer recently released new album The Details including track ‘Unglued’; plus Mo has announced a string of UK tour dates in the new year including a show at The Eagle in Manchester on Sunday 11th February. MO KENNEY FEBRUARY 2018 UK TOUR DATES Saturday […]
As 2017 draws to a close, Fuzz Club announce Reverb Conspiracy Vol 5, due for release Friday 19th January 2018. Joining a number of Fuzz Club’s own artists – including 10,000 Russos, The Gluts and JuJu – will be physical exclusives from TRAAMS and their biting motorik post-punk, cult Italian psych-rockers Julie’s Haircut and the harrowing psychedelic snarl of Portsmouth upstarts Melt Dunes and many, many […]
Anna von Hausswolff has announced her fourth album, Dead Magic for release on Friday 2nd March 2018 via City Slang worldwide. Along with the announcement, she has unleashed a first track, ‘The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra’. Dead Magic tracklisting: 1. The Truth, The Glow, The Fall (12:58) 2. The Mysterious Vanishing of Electra (7:00) 3. Ugly […]
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