Left Field Messiah – a band made up of Steve Bays (Hot Hot Heat), Jeremy Ruzumna (Fitz and the Tantrums) and Erik Janson (Wildling) – have shared their latest single ‘Young Libertine’. The release follows the success of ‘Fuzz Machine’ and finds the trio stepping into the spaced-out zone where funk meets indie rock –…
Alcopop! Records’ signing Home Counties have shared new single ‘Modern Yuppies’. The self-produced song finds the band moving away from their previous indie-pop guitar sound to something more freaky and funky. Laced with synths, drum machines and an irresistible disco beat before throwing in what sounds like retro computer games effects, think somewhere between David…
NZCA Lines, the project of producer, multi-instrumentalist and sometime-member of Christine and the Queens’ live band Michael Lovett, are all set to release the mainly self-produced third album ‘Pure Luxury’. The record may have been inspired by key social and political moments on both sides of the Atlantic, but that won’t take away the big…
Thao & The Get Down Stay Down’s fifth album ‘Temple’ (out on Domino now) is bursting with hugely danceable songs that dip into various genres with aplomb. It opens with the title track which is a rhythmic piece about looking forward with alluring bass lines and disco beats: ‘By day I gave grand speeches. By…
We don’t know much about Meanwhile, but then again, most of the great pop stars have been enigmas, haven’t they? We do know that he’s a supremely talented songwriter, singer and producer who has experience as a film composer and is on a one-man mission to bring funk and soul into the 21st century. He’s…
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