Cardiff indie-poppers Rosehip Teahouse have shared new song ‘Growth’ ahead of a run of UK summer dates and an appearance at Indietracks Festival in July. Signed to our friends at Beth Shalom Records, this single finds vocalist Faye Rogers examining how important self-care is and how you should always take time to breathe: ‘This track…
concrete concrete are a new band from Brooklyn who have already played shows with Alex Cameron and Cavemen. They have a debut album ‘Drifter’ (produced by toe’s Mino Takaaki) ready to wow the math rock community and ‘Hues’ offers a fine introduction to the three-piece’s intelligently crafted sound. Opening with stop-start and zig-zag patterns of…
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…
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…
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…
Columbus, Ohio four-piece Trying describe their wholesome indie-pop sound as ‘somewhere between Frankie Cosmos and Slowdive’ and ‘If I Don’t Get a Job’ is the first single to be shared from their new EP ‘I Won’t Let You Lose the Rhythm’ (out on 26 July via Bandcamp – pre-order now). The song is only 1…
San Francisco band Lofi Legs live up to their name with the short and sweet ‘Dreamin’. Appearing on their upcoming debut album ‘Lamb’, the song finds the real-life couple of Maria Donjacour and Paris Cox-Farr sharing their love in a way that is reminiscent of Empire! Empire! (I Was a Lonely Estate) or The Moldy…
Toronto native Deanna Petcoff writes ‘happy songs about sad things’ and new single ‘Stage Lights’ captures this perfectly. Opening with a Kim Deal-esque bass line, Deanna starts to look back on a night where she felt a spark with a touring musician and asks ‘What if?’ She wonders what might have been if instead of…
LA-based indie-poppers Cosmo Gold have shared the video for ‘Drown the Fly’, a song that appears on their new EP ‘Waiting on the City’. With shotgun guitars at the forefront, a danceable samba-inspired rhythm section and plenty of cowbell that would fit nicely next to Two Door Cinema Club, Barrie or Future Islands, it’s a…
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