Post punk provocateurs The Pop Group, one of the most wildly innovative and barrier shattering bands to emerge from the late ’70s era are set to release their first studio recording in 35 years. The album ‘Citizen Zombie’ has been produced by one of the biggest names in commercial pop music, multi...
Devo, captured live in Oakland, performing early experimental tracks written between 1974 and 1977, prior to any label deal or public success. No matter how messy, beginnings are exciting. Especially when what happens next endures the test of time. For Devo, the beginning happened in the basements...
This double album of radio broadcasts contains a wide and eclectic range performances, including songs that would appear on Grace. Drawn from broadcasts both before and after Grace, these performances show another side to Jeff Buckley. The songs featured here include Hallelujah, a song now strongly...
World-renowned American alternative rockers Everclear announce their new album Black is the New Black that will be released on 23rd April 2015. It’s just about time we put out a NEW ALBUM!!! We’re all wrapped up in the studio and the songs turned out absolutely amazing! We recorded at ThinkLoud...
Top hitters on the New Zealand 1960’s pop scene who recorded storming versions of mid to late 60’s mod pop-art songs plus same vein own compositions. A pop band with a bluesy bite they were somewhere between the Animals and Paul Revere & The Raiders, driven on by an insistent keyboard-organ led...
Musique de film imagine (music for film imagined) is a soundtrack that pays homage to the great European film directors of the late 50’s and 60’s, such as François Truffaut & Jean-Luc Godard (to name but two), created by Anton Newcombe on behalf of the Brian Jonestown Massacre for an imaginary...
In October 2001, Paul Brady played twenty*three successive gigs in the legendary Dublin venue, Vicar St., bringing together a glorious array of guest artists from around the globe including Bonnie Raitt, Mark Knopfler, Van Morrison, Sinead O'Connor, Ronan Keating, Curtis Stigers, Gavin Friday &...
Another joint Fishrider/Occultation release spanning the whole wide world While travelling through Berlin in 2012, Lucinda King ripped a sketch of a skeleton and a woman from a book, and stored it in her wallet. The piece was Death and the Maiden, a 19th Century engraving by Edvard Munch. It is an...
Get ready for some Heavy Blues, from The Guess Who and BachmanOTurner Overdrive founder Randy Bachman O and his new power blues rock trio…BACHMAN. The force behind classic rock hits “Takin’ Care of Business”, “You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet” and “American Woman”, BACHMAN’s Heavy Blues is an album...
After the breakout critical success of Mandolin Oranges Yep Roc debut, This Side of Jordan, you'd expect the relentless onslaught of touring that accompanied it to seep into the writing of the North Carolina duos follow-up. You'd expect the sound to reflect long days on the road, long nights...
With 4 years, 4 releases, and countless miles under their belt as a 2 piece band, Zack Murphy and Matthew Paige have called on fellow brethren Dylan Whitlow (bass) and Ollie Dogg (harmonica) to join forces and help expand their already wide spectrum of American music. The upcoming release of the...
The frst-ever reissue of the private-press country-rock rarity by Colorado auto body painter, Marine, and garage band lifer Kenny Knight—he played in the original `60s Black Flag—Crossroads recalls a homebrew American Beauty-era Grateful Dead in its world-weary, low-key mood and indelible...
In excess virtue lies danger, or at least limits to pragmatic action—it’s a lesson hard learned by anyone disillusioned by the erosion of youthful mythologies. Strict fealty to a fxed ideal of identity doesn’t do us any favors as adults. Loyalty, the third and fnest album yet by The Weather Station...
John Dawson Winter III known as Johnny Winter, was an American blues guitarist, multi-instrumentalist, singer, and producer. Best known for his high-energy blues-rock albums and live performances in the late 1960s and 1970s, Winter also produced three Grammy Award-winning albums for blues singer...
Having poured all of his confusion and frustration over being removed unexpectedly from the drum stool of Placebo in 2007 into the eponymous 2010 debut album of his own project Love Amongst Ruin, Steve Hewitt lived through an emancipating process, a mission to prove his musical worth not just to...
What Happens Next, the title of Gang of Four’s thrilling and unsettling ninth album, is the successor to 2011’s acclaimed Content. Founding guitarist and songwriter Andy Gill has constructed a new Gang of Four for What Happens Next: John “Gaoler” Sterry on vocals, Thomas McNiece on bass and Jonny...
Public Image Ltd (PiL) release their 10th studio album on 11th September 2015. The 11-track album follows the huge critical success of 2012’s ‘This is PiL’, the band’s first album in 17 years. Commenting on the new album, John Lydon says, “Buy now while stocks last.” Widely regarded as one of the...
Nottingham duo Sleaford Mods are due to release their third ‘proper’ album on July 10th via abstract-punk label Harbinger Sound on vinyl, CD and download. The album will be housed in a gatefold sleeve designed by Steve Lippert and was mastered by Matt Colton at Alchemy. Everything else was done by...
Warped riff-riders FOGG worship at the altar of the almighty riff, conjuring leaden tombs of amp-destroying sound. The towering Texas trio cranks howling psychedelic metal and 70s biker doom topped with gnarly shredding and strangely unique vocals that hover distantly over landslides of chest...
Though it's been 11 years since her last solo album, Holly's been busy as half of blues / Americana duo Holly Golightly & The Brokeoffs (The Brokeoffs being multi-instrumentals t Lawyer Dave). The pair have released a string of well received albums, and undertaken many tours on both sides of the...