Justin Vernon and pals have been doing the promo rounds this week on the back of the release of their 2nd and self-titled album Bon Iver. Check out Calgary and a bonus version of Skinny Love on The Colbert Report and Holocene on Jimmy Fallon… Continue reading WATCH: Bon Iver on Colbert and Jimmy Fallon…
With Ty Segall’s new album Goodbye Bread about to hit the stores it sent me back to his 2008 self-titled record and this killer opening track Go Home (warning – volume is loud on this YouTube clip). Grab a copy of the new single You Make The Sun Fry below too… FREE DOWNLOAD: You Make The Sun Fry Segall is about to tour Australia… – … Continue reading NEWS: Ty Segall – Download new song, listen to old one…
Radiohead have recorded Radiohead – The King of Limbs: Live from the Basement for Nigel Godrich’s TV series which is set to air July 1st via BBC Worldwide. The 55 minute set will also include behind the scenes material. In the meantime the band have uploaded a track which features two drummers to whet our appetites… Continue reading WATCH: Radiohead | Staircase (Live from The Basement)
The Paper Scissors launched their album In Loving Memory last night at the Oxford Art Factory and played a great set… Photos will be up soon, in the meantime here is footage of the brilliant single Lung Sum. Continue reading WATCH: The Paper Scissors | Lung Sum @ OAF, Sydney (17/06/11)
Finally Sydney psych shoegazers The Laurels get round to releasing their debut EP after playing a ton of gigs over the last few years. Definitely one of the best live bands on the Sydney scene they deserve to get a lot more attention from the release of Mesozoic on July 8th. Continue reading LISTEN: The Laurels | Black Cathedral
Gimme Failure comes from Hutchings’ recent album Avalon Cassettes and the video was made by brother Scott Hutchings. Continue reading WATCH: The new video for Jamie Hutchings’ Gimme Failure
Morrissey has debuted three tracks at a live session for the BBC. They come from a forthcoming LP that is finished but without a record label to release it. Morrissey has stated that “My talents do not lie in DIY” hence no plans to self-release the album. Surely that has to be the title of the record! Continue reading LISTEN: Hear three new Morrissey songs…
I’m not sure about Bon Iver releasing music videos. For a sound so visual and emotive it would be hard for anything to match the imaginative and stellar qualities of their music. This one looks great in parts but doesn’t pull it off, Judge for yourself.. Continue reading VIDEO: Bon Iver | Calgary
THEORY OF EVOLUTION Heading down under to play Splendour in the Grass Wild Beasts bring with them a new album Smother that is already garnering critical acclaim for its further refinement of their literate and nuanced art pop. Hayden Thorpe talks Chris Familton through the changes. The UK quartet from the Lakes District have upped the ante with each of their previous two albums, peeling … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Wild Beasts
written by Chris Familton It wasn’t long after Jack Ladder began touring his last album Love Is Gone that he began a transition to the sound that pervades his latest full length Hurtsville. That sound is one that embraces big open spaces with soaring effects-laden guitars and a sparse and more textural rhythmic approach. Ladder (Tim Rogers) has shorn his music of the bluesy soul … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Jack Ladder | Hurtsville
written by Chris Familton Fink inhabit a musical netherworld where straightforward categorisation of their sound is a hard thing to nail down. Fin Greenall draws equally on folk, blues, electronic and dub forms and can blend them into a singular sound seemingly effortlessly. Perfect Darkness digs a little deeper into Greenall’s repertoire but the recipe stays much the same as its predecessor Sort Of Revolution. … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Fink | Perfect Darkness
written by Chris Familton Album number four finds Chad VanGaalen concocting his most complete full length set of songs and eschewing much of the willful disorientation and quirkiness that characterised some of his earlier releases. VanGaalen also moved into a professional studio to record these songs which has resulted in a lush aural embrace of sound to get lost in. Diaper Island still manages to … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Chad VanGaalen | Diaper Island
Doubtful Sounds 