Sharing management with The Strokes and following a recent support slot to Interpol, New York City five-piece Monobloc share new single ‘Take Me’. Inspired by Phil Spector’s Wall of Sound, there’s a cinematic edge to its atmospherics as frontman Tim Waldron pleads: ‘I want to be your fool’. A mix between My Bloody Valentine and…
Brooklyn band Good Looking Friends have released their second album ‘The Light of the Well’ via We’re Trying Records. Mixed by The World is a Beautiful Place & I Am No Longer Afraid to Die’s Chris Teti, the album features the natural – and man-made – sounds of New York City including ambulance, klaxons and…
Wyrd-Americana indie rockers Frog have released their fourth album ‘Count Bateman’. Available via Audio Antihero and Frog founder Danny Bateman’s Tape Wormies imprint (order now), the eclectic album finds the band looking West and musing over sunshine, sweat, sexuality and swaying palm trees. The record opens with the dreamy and acoustic ‘Hartsdale Hotbox’. Wrapped in…
New York City indie rockers Scoville Unit have shared the video for ‘Beach Song’, a track that will feature on their self-titled third album, out on 6 September (pre-order here). The video was directed by Troy Carlton at Crane House Film. Singer and songwriter Gandhar Savur says the song is all about escaping to the…
Brooklyn-via-Burlington VT power-poppers Little Slugger have shared ‘You’re On Your Own’, the first single to be taken from new album ‘I Want to Live Here Forever’ (out on 19 July and available to pre-order now). Formed by childhood friends Sam Bevet and Ben Chugg, the Little Slugger sound is HUGE. It’s packed with killer…
Pip Hall has wowed crowds over in the States with performances in New York and at SXSW and now the Preston singer-songwriter has shared new single ‘So Easy’. Written, recorded and produced by Pip herself, the song has an atmospheric ’80s-inspired opening as she sings about being wronged in the past and how she is…
Orchards follow last year’s ‘Losers/Lovers’ EP with the release of new single ‘Young’ (out on 7″ with ‘Mature Me’ via Big Scary Monsters on 29 March). The new songs will follow shows at New York’s New Collosus Festival and SXSW and accompany a UK tour. The alt-pop banger opens with Sam Rushton’s trademark upbeat mathy…
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…
Tiny Engines signings Wild Pink have unveiled ‘There is a Ledger’, the second song to be released from the New York City band’s second album ‘Yolk in the Fur’. Released on 20 July and available to pre-order via Bandcamp now, the song hints the LP (which is dedicated to Tom Petty) could be something sublime…
We’re delighted to be debuting the new video from New York based indie-popper Sarah Gargano. ‘Paper Girl’ is a song that finds the songwriter bearing her heart out over her college hook-up culture experiences and giving an insight into the ways young women feel when they are objectified and used by boys and men. It…
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