A London band led by Marcus Gooda that features members of Employed to Serve and Ducking Punches, The Yacht Club are set to release their new album ‘The Last Words That You Said to Me Have Kept Me Here and Safe’ via our friends at Beth Shalom Records on 25 January. Written following the death…
Written ‘over a period of time spent inside my shell’, Eerie Wanda’s (Dutch/Croatian audio and visual artist Marina Tadic) second album ‘Pet Town’ will be released via Joyful Noise Records on 25 January. The record opens with its title track, a song that mixes nature sounds, finger clicks, folky whistles and soulful lullaby vocals. Marina…
Laura Mary-Carter and Steven Ansell have been recording and touring as Blood Red Shoes for a long time and at the end of the promotional run for 2014’s self-titled record, the band threatened to implode. The duo decided they’d seen enough of each other and needed a break – Laura booked a one-way ticket to…
Daniel P. Carter’s favourites Press Club have toured with bands as varied as Joyce Manor, Cloud Nothings and The Smith Street Band and now the Melbourne band have signed to the ever-reliable Hassle Records to release their debut album, ‘Late Teens’. There’s an anthem-in-waiting on the opening ‘Crash’. It’s packed with feedback, resounding drums and…
Talented drummer Kyle Crane (he’s toured with Neko Case, M. Ward and was the drum double in Whiplash – we’re sure he knows the difference between rushing and dragging) is set to self-release the debut album from his Crane Like the Bird project. Kyle’s father, Jeff, was a coast guard lieutenant out of Humboldt Bay,…
Swedish indie-pop band I Was a King have released details of their new Norman Blake-produced album ‘Slow Century’ (out 8 March on Coastal Town Recordings) and unveiled brand new single ‘Bubble’. Bursting with jangly charm and potent guitar hooks, the song is all about how important it is that friends are there for you, even…
American indie legends Guided By Voices have announced details of a show at London’s Village Underground on 5 June (add yourself to the waiting list here) and released new single ‘The Rally Boys’. The jangly pop song is under two minutes long and proves Robert Pollard has never lost his penchant for memorable melodies…
Brighton-based Hollow Hand has released a video for ‘Milestone’, the latest single to be taken from his acclaimed debut record ‘Star Chamber’ (available from Talkshow Records now). Sitting neatly in a space between the optimism of Americana and the melodic tendencies of Gruff Rhys or Real Estate, the sunshine-infused track is full of romance and…
Sharon Van Etten has released the video for ‘Seventeen’, the third single to be released from her much-anticipated new album ‘Remind Me Tomorrow’ (out on 18 January via Jagjaguwar). A love letter to New York, her home for the past decade and a half, it finds Sharon wistfully recalling her move to the city and…
Liverpool art rockers SPQR have released a brilliantly surrealist video for new single ‘Slowly’. Crafted and directed by drummer Bex Denton and scripted by singer Peter Harrison, the video features a shadow puppet named Timmy who finds himself travelling to the depths of his despair and then back again. Opening with energetic Everything Everything-style melodies,…
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