Ben Kweller has shared new song ‘Starz’ and announced details of Bright and Early – a DIY subscription service for his fans all over the world. Plans range from $3 per month to $40 per month and include everything from discounts on merchandise to private video chats and guestlist spots at Ben’s concerts. Every plan…
MICHELLE, a majority queer/POC band from New York City, have signed to Transgressive Records in the UK and Canvasback Music/Atlantic Records for the rest of the world. They have also shared a live performance video (recorded in February) for ‘The Bottom’ – a song that celebrates their hometown – to celebrate their news and you…
Eades, a quintet from Leeds featuring members of Far Caspian, have shared their new single ‘Same Guy’. Opening with an enticing guitar hook and vigorous bass line, the song takes inspiration from New Wave and intelligent pop acts like Talking Heads – although with the same penchant for melody that serves The Orielles and Whitney…
Everything Everything have made a welcome return with the beautiful ‘In Birdsong’. The song, produced by John Congleton (Sharon Van Etten, St. Vincent, Future Islands) is the first new material to be aired from the four piece’s upcoming fifth album. Jonathan Higgs says the band didn’t originally plan to release this track this early but…
Wares (Edmonton native Cassia Hardy) releases her second LP (and first on Mint Records) ‘Survival’ on 24 April. It’s an album that Cassia dedicates to ‘decolonial activists, anti-fascist agitators and prairie queers fighting for community and a better life’. A blast of feedback signals the start of album opener ‘Hands, Skin’ before Cassia’s assertive La…
Bright Eyes have shared ‘Forced Convalescence‘, the second single to be taken from the new album to be released later this year. Featuring special guest Flea on bass, this song finds Conor Oberst and Nathaniel Walcott facing up to the realities of the latest stage of their lives against a backdrop of orchestral ‘Cassadega’-era soundscapes…
Good Good Blood (James Smith) returns with another selection of haunting songs to delve into during these strange times. ‘There Are Wolves Here’ opens with ‘The Renegade’, a fractured and atmospheric piece of dream pop with a brooding bass line and dark lyrics: ‘The body pains will make you pay for the babe you laid…
Rosie Tucker has shared their cover of the one and only Jeffrey Lewis’s ‘Arrow’. Already a live favourite, Rosie has released a recorded version during the lockdown as the song’s themes are fitting to the current situaton we’re all living in: ‘For me, it’s a song of disassociation, born in the uncanny space where the…
Fialta, a four-piece from California who have been featured on shows including Atypical and Bojack Horseman, have shared new single ‘Made It This Far’ ahead of the release of a new album later this year. Opening with acoustic strums and subtle drums, the piece of folk rock is all about one of the band’s personal…
Natalie Schlabs has shared ‘Home is You’, the lead single from her forthcoming album ‘Don’t Look Too Close’ (out in October). Describing the song as an ode to that person who is ‘your person’, the song brings to mind the timeless and melodic pop of the ’70s (plus some crisp Rilo Kiley-esque guitar hooks) with…
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