Heartbreak, working shitty jobs to survive and the loneliness of public transport in a city, Craig Dermody knows no other way than heart-on-sleeve. Hailing from Australia but now living in New York, Dermody’s debut album under the moniker Scott and Charlene’s Wedding is due for release on Critical Heights in November. ‘Para Vista Social Club’ […]
TOKOLOSH is the coming together of a collection of Manchester musicians, Christian and Nicky Madden and Richard Young from The Earlies, Nathan Sudders from The Whip and Liam Frost. Liam, who is the band’s sole lyricist, describes the lyrical content of the songs as “a slant on the desperate and obsessive nature of love and […]
Great Pagans are the third act to release on Anti-Ghost Moon Ray Records, the Brighton DIY Label/Collective that put out Gazelle Twin’s critically acclaimed debut ‘The Entire City’ and Bernholz’s leftfield take on Madonna’s Material Girl’. It’s a label with a very carefully selected, small but perfectly formed roster. Great Pagans are the label’s band […]
Breton have announced the release of a brand new single ‘Population Density’, due for release on 5th November 2012 on FatCat Records. Recorded between festivals over the summer at the band’s creative HQ The Lab, the band road tested it for the first time at the Route Du Rock festival in France in front of […]
With a short run of UK live dates and a brand new 10” single, Wave Machines prepare to deliver the first taster of the new album this October. A tightly wound Prince-esque work out, lead signer Tim Bruzon describes Ill Fit as “the fuzzy moment right before you make a decision to do something right […]
Cough Cough is taken from their new album Arc which will be released on Jan 14th. This press picture was taken acclaimed photographer Nadav Kander. One of his most recent commissions was Obama’s People – Kander had 52 full page colour portraits published in one issue of The New York Times Magazine. He also has exhibits at London’s V&A Museum […]
At Latitude 2012 Scroobius Pip headlined the spoken word tent on a Saturday night to a crowd of, to his surprise, over 4000 festival goers. All of whom stood in silence during each piece and engaged like a good drunk festival crowd should in between. It was this overwhelming show that made Pip decide to […]
King Krule -the primary creative vessel for 17-year-old south east London-based singer/producer/songwriter Archy Marshall – has just released a stunning double A-side single featuring two stunning new tracks, ‘Rock Bottom’ and ‘Octopus’. The release comprises two very different songs, revealing alternate sides of the project’s coin. ‘Rock Bottom’ is a triumphantly doomed airstrike of rhythm […]
Modular Recordings is proud to announce that Australian psych warriors Tame Impala will return with their new album Lonerism, to be released globally this October 2012. Again recorded and produced almost entirely by Kevin Parker in studios, planes, hotels and homes around the world, and mixed by Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips / MGMT), Lonerism’s […]
2:54 -sisters Hannah and Colette Thurlow- have debuted a special cover version of Seal and Adamski’s Nineties classic, ‘Killer’. Currently main support to the XX on their European comeback tour, they just premiered the surprise track online, with Colette commenting, “There’s a nostalgia to ‘Killer’ that each member of the band identifies with. We grew […]