It’s crazy to think that Frightened Rabbit’s ‘The Midnight Organ Fight’ turns 10 years old this year. Like for so many others, it quickly became one of the most important records of my life and is one I continue to return to again and again. I first saw Frightened Rabbit when Our Lost Infantry supported…
Named after a Nick Lowe song, Born Fighters are London-based Luke Barham (who you will know from Stagecoach/as Uncle Luc) and Los Angeles native Peter Maffei. Although the friends live over 5,000 miles away from each other, their shared love of power pop inspired them to write ‘Little Green Tree’ during a meet-up while Luke…
The Dears frontman Murray A. Lightburn has shared the video for ‘Changed My Ways’ (directed by Kevin Drew of Broken Social Scene) ahead of a UK and Ireland tour to promote recent album ‘Hear Me Out’ (Firebird Records). The song has a grand, cinematic feel with a number of orchestral elements thrown into the mix…
Heavenly Records signing Mattiel has shared ‘Food for Thought’ ahead of an appearance on the Park stage at Glastonbury Festival this year and an extensive UK and European tour. One of the highlights from last year’s ‘Satis Factory’ album, the brassy, short song opens with a catchy bass and off-kilter pop melodies as Mattiel Brown…
Team Me have shared ‘Does Anyone Know How to Get to the Heart of This’, the third single to be taken from their forthcoming new EP. The song continues the narrative of previous release ‘The Future in Your Eyes’ and finds frontman Marius Drogås Hagen taking you back to the post-apocalyptic world where our cyborg heroes are…
Edinburgh-based singer-songwriter Harry Harris has shared the video for ‘Apocalypse’, a song that will feature on his upcoming album ‘I Feel Drunk All the Time’ (out on 21 June). Filmed at Home Farm Festival by Stephen Rötzch-Thomas, the video is a live illustration by the political cartoonist and former Children’s Laureate, Chris Riddell. The sparse,…
When a press officer references Stars in their pitch, you know a band are going to be worth checking out. This was the case with Minneapolis four-piece Graveyard Club. The band also list Arcade Fire, The Cure and New Order amongst their influences on their Facebook page and this all shines through on the synth-heavy…
Liam Gallagher has swaggered back into the spotlight with ‘Shockwave’ and now the former Oasis frontman has shared a video (directed by the award-winning Francois Rousselet) for the single that literally sees him burning down the house as he walks through America’s deep south. It even gives a cheeky nod to THAT viral video of…
We’ve all been eagerly awaiting the debut album from Quiet Lions for quite some time now and recent singles ‘Echo Chamber’ and ‘Wasteland’ have just whet the anticipation even more. Based around social and political issues, they hinted at the overriding theme of isolation and dissociation in today’s digital world that can be found throughout…
Hailing from just north of Birmingham, Super Lemon Days have already released a couple of EPs and played shows with emo heroes including Drug Church, Radiator Hospital and Apologies, I Have None. Now, they’re set to release ‘No Slackin”, a three-and-a-half-minute song that wonderfully blends in elements of slacker pop (of course) and more experimental…
