Following the release of their LP ‘Carnage Bargain’ via Suicide Squeeze late last year, Los Angeles four-piece The Paranoyds continue their streak of reminiscent sci-fi boogie with new digital single “Memory Foam”. The track accompanies a list of live dates, their first ever European tour. On this unearthed outtake from their ‘Carnage Bargain’ recording session, […]
Ladies & Gentleman, this is democracy manifest… What’s the charge? The Chats have released yet another unforgettable video for their latest track, Dine N Dash, the fifth single taken from The Chats’ debut album High Risk Behaviour, out March 27th. In true Chats fashion, Dine N Dash is fierce, funny, sweaty and sub-two-minutes. The video, […]
In the new video for Father John Misty’s ‘Date Night’, one of the standout tracks from God’s Favorite Customer, Sub Pop labelmate/visual artist Chad VanGaalen, takes the uptempo rocker and creates a wonderfully absurd and psychedelic visual for the track. Father John Misty Official | Facebook | Twitter
With their debut album ‘Columbia’ dropping on September 21st, THE BLINDERS have announced they will follow the release with an extensive UK headline tour throughout October and November. The 22-date tour, The Blinders second headline tour of 2018, kicks off in their adopted hometown of Manchester at Academy 2 on October 15th and includes a […]
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 […]
Toronto alt-rock quartet The Wooden Sky will release their new album Swimming in Strange Waters on April 7th via Nevado Music. Drawing its title from a line in Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi novel, Dune – “Survival is the ability to swim in strange water” – The Wooden Sky’s fifth full-length record finds frontman and multi-instrumentalist […]
The Courtneys have shared “Tour,” the latest from their upcoming album The Courtneys II. After naming Flying Nun Records as their number one influence for years, the legendary label signed the Vancouver trio as their first non-New Zealand act. The Courtneys II is available for pre-order now and due out February 17th on Flying Nun Records. About The Courtneys: The Courtneys drift back […]
With his latest EP ‘Savage Times Vol. 5‘ out now via Innovative Leisure, Los Angeles-based artist Hanni El Khatib is sharing a new visual piece for his latest single ‘Savage Times’. Hanni El Khatib’s first idea for his Savage Times project was to do something he’d never done before. Instead, he ended up doing … well, everything […]
Following a 2016 that saw their debut LP Channel The Spirits gain a Mercury Prize nomination, Leaf Label signings The Comet Is Coming are returning to Manchester at The Soup Kitchen on Friday, May 5th. The bands influences are said to include Sun Ra, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix and the BBC Radiophonic Workshops from which […]
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