Kim Monaghan is the sour face of Daddy Tank Records, a one-man freak show of the alien and strange. Their diverse catalogue of oddities has included Future Hip-Hop (Suck Susa ...
You know, sometimes the world just has to dance. Sometimes you get tired of avant-garde experimental doom-folk recordings. Sometimes the word ‘dream-pop’ in an em ...
So Jean-Benoit Dunckel from Air has teamed up with a young lady who goes by the name of Lou Hayter (you may well have heard her on the keys in New Young Pony Club) to release ...
Words by Gianna Hughes The Sea and Cake have been recording music for as long as my younger sister has been alive. In the time it took for the Chicago-based band to release 1 ...
One of our favourite tracks of the year has just got the visual treatment, as WALL has released the video for Magazine, her quite stunning debut single which came out this we ...
Oh kaleidoscopic videos, I do like you a lot. They’re always so inventive and pretty aren’t they? And so it is with the new video from London three-piece LULS, wh ...
Birmingham’s Calories have always had that magic touch for producing short and messy rock songs that manage to feel thoroughly instant while oozing nostalgic romanticis ...
Brendan Mattox is the brains behind Boston’s Marblemouth; although low-key, Marblemouth are one of our highlights from 2012’s many debuts. Second EP Nocturnes was the real he ...
Artist: Tall Ships Title: Everything Touching Record Label: Big Scary Monsters / Blood & Biscuits Release Date: October 8th BUY IT Words by Tom Johnson If there is a suit ...
Oh, mighty PAWS…we do so care for you and your “infectious, lo-fi, garage pop-rock”…oh yes we do! Their fabuloso debut album is but a short while away and today we premiere s ...
Australia’s finest ME play the last of their dates with Motion City Soundtrack at Leeds’ Cockpit tonight and, as a fitting tribute, we’re very pleased to pr ...
Though only in their infancy as a band, Swinger are another 2012 debut of note. One demo in and they’re coolly recalling the indie-psych waves of Velocity Girl and Love Batte ...
There have been occasions in my life when I thought that perhaps music means too much to me. There have also been times when I’m almost certain it does. Pinning hopes a ...
Words by Rob Jurewicz How To Dress Well has always been about capturing a mood of loneliness, isolation and depression, a process of ‘drilling down into the melancholy’ to cr ...
Best Coast The Borderline, London Tuesday 18th September One of my main gripes with the internet is it’s passion for hyperbole. Seemingly every record is labelled “album of t ...
Last week Deftones released a free download from their upcoming album Koi No Yokan (November 13th), and it hits hard in typical fashion of the Sacramento unit. It doesn’ ...
Words by David Rutherford An album’s merit doesn’t just derive from its content, but also from its context. I’m not saying it’s 50:50, or that good al ...
Artist: The Mountain Goats Title: Transcendental Youth Label: Merge Records Release Date: October 2nd Words by Aled Schell It’s been a long road of progression which has led ...
Words by Tom Johnson There’s an earthy familiarity that prevails from the outset of Ghosts We Must Carry, the new, and second, album from Glasgow folk outift The State ...
This year’s End of the Road festival offered a multitude of delights. Solo artists convinced in a variety of ways. Porcelain Raft thrilled the crowd with an intoxicating comb ...
Artist: This Many Boyfriends Title: This Many Boyfriends Label: ANGULAR RECORDING CORPORATION Release Date: October 8th Words by Andy Price The indie-rock genre is overcrowde ...
There have been a whole host of great new videos arriving in the Inbox this month, so we thought we would round them all up for you in a handy-sized post. There are new singl ...
Everyone is familiar with the particular kind of sadness that comes when a band you love breaks up, the gigs you’ll never get to experience again, the thrill of a new release ...
Emile Milgrim is the proud owner of Miami’s Other Electricities label, founded back in 2006. OE have released records from artists all over the shant with their electrons/pro ...
