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…
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,…
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…
Los Angeles-via-Boston trio Slothrust have released the video for new single ‘Double Down’ ahead of a short UK tour this January. This follows shows with Manchester Orchestra and hugely positive acclaim for fourth album ‘The Pact’. Veering somewhere between art pop and grungey riffs that wouldn’t have sounded out of place on the first Garbage…
Ahead of the release of debut album ‘Revision Ballads’ (out via Lost Map Records on 15 February,) Savage Mansion has unveiled a video for ‘Elwood’ – a piece of Hefner-esque slacker pop that finds Craig Angus confronting a bully from his childhood: ‘Elwood, if I saw you, I would run a mile. I know you…
Norwegian power-punk trio Spielbergs have shared ‘Five On It’, the opening song on from their eagerly anticipated album, ‘This Is Not the End’ (out on 1 February via By the Time It Gets Dark Records – pre-order here). It’s a thrilling anthem from the very first note – managing to combine the snarl of early…
‘staying up late’ was one of the highlights from cheerbleedrz’ debut EP ‘faceplant’ (released last year on Alcopop! Buy it digitally from Bandcamp here) and now the London trio have unveiled a magical Sabrina the Teenage Witch-inspired video for the song. Illustrated and animated by Jono Ganz, the video follows a cheerbleedrz fan as they attempt…
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