Packs have shared the video for new single ‘Silvertongue’, the second to be taken from new record ‘Take the Cake’ (out on 14 May through Fire Talk and Royal Mountain). Following shows with acts including Squirrel Flower and Odetta Hartman, this scatty and scuzzy piece of grunge-meets-slacker pop will introduce Maddie Link to a wider…
Fresh have shared new song ‘Girl Clout’ – an impassioned rally against the toxic masculinity that infects our culture (and especially the music scene). Lead singer Kathryn Woods says the song’s themes ‘include power, not being taken seriously by male musicians and bands, and being tokenised. It’s also about seeing through performative male allyship, owning…
Michigan-based duo Sideria released their self-tired debut LP at the end of last year – and you can order it on Bandcamp here. The rercord, inspired by bands including Hop Along and Algernon Cadwallader, will be on streaming services from 20 March. Opening with a distorted confusion of riffs and drums on the Cap’n Jazz-esque…
Tigercub have made a welcome return with the announcement of second album ‘As Blue As Indigo’ (out via Blame Recordings on 18 June – pre-order here). Written over two years, the album was inspired by a video lecture frontman Jamie Stephen Hall watched that discussed how the notion of colour can be subjective, depending on…
Led by Kate Grube, Chicago, Illinois-based emo rockers Kittyhawk are a band determined to make you smile and weep in equal measure. Featuring members of Dowsing, Pet Symmetry and Into It. Over It.’s live band, their ‘new’ album features a collection of songs – released between 2012 and 2016 – that were not featured on…
February has been an odd month – again going by so fast and so slowly at the same time. But music is keeping us all going – and any month that features new albums by TV Priest, The Hold Steady, Katy Kirby and Wild Pink is fine by us. Here’s a Spotify playlist of the…
Texas-based singer-songwriter Katy Kirby was born, raised and homeschooled by two ex-cheerleaders in small-town Texas and started singing in an evangelical church. Her new album, ‘Cool Dry Place’ (released via Keeled Scales), finds her dismantling her past: ‘I can hear myself fighting that deeply internalized impulse to make things that are super pleasant or approachable’.…
Sufjan Stevens has shared the Luca Guadagnino-directed video for ‘Tell Me You Love Me’. It finds the singer-songwriter and director collaborating for the first time since Call Me By Your Name with Luca saying the song, which featured on Sufjan’s eight studio album ‘The Ascension’ perfectly capturing ‘The aching feeling of loving and wanting to…
Claud, the first signing to Phoebe Bridgers’ Saddest Factory (a new label imprint with Dead Oceans), has shared the video for ‘Guard Down’ ahead of the release of new album ‘Super Monster’ on 12 February. Co-written with Cameron Hale and Mary Weitz, the emo-tinged pop song finds the singer-songwriter heading to New York City –…
Philadelphia-based Remember Sports have shared the video for ‘Pinky Ring’, the opener of their upcoming fourth album ‘Like a Stone’ – released via Big Scary Monsters and Father/Daughter Records on 23 April. The record finds the band members trading instruments throughout, while the new single is a smart slice of indie-pop that would happily slot…
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