Auckland quartet Beach Pigs have released a new clip for their song 333, taken from this year’s mighty fine LP Grom Warfare. The track is one of the many highlights of the album of which we said: The band’s strength is in the way they combine post-rock tonality with lush Byrdsian harmonies and the structural curiosity of a band like Pavement. That band was always … Continue reading VIDEO: Beach Pigs – 333
Mogwai are sneaking a new EP Music Industry 3. Fitness Industry 1. out before the end of the year with a trio of previously unreleased songs that came from the same sessions as their Rave Tapes LP plus remixes of three Rave Tapes tracks by Blanck Mass, Nils Frahm and Pye Corner Audio. ‘Teenage Exorcists’ is one of the straightest song based tracks they’ve recorded with … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Mogwai – Teenage Exorcists (video)
Here’s a great new track from London quartet Desperate Journalist that sounds like The Smiths jousting with Life Without Buildings. ‘Control’ has a real rush and urgency to it, nervous energy that converts to grandeur in the choruses. Play it and then play it again… Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Desperate Journalist – Control
As Radiohead prepare to start work on their ninth studio album, Philip Selway is quietly enthusiastic as he talks to CHRIS FAMILTON about the writing and recording process of his second solo album, scoring for contemporary dance and pauses to reflect on nearly thirty years as a member of the Oxford quartet. Philip Selway first emerged from behind the Radiohead drum kit in 2010 with … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Philip Selway
Blank Realm received widespread critical acclaim for this year’s Grassed Inn album and with that momentum they were able to travel to Europe for the first time, playing a range of shows from intimate clubs to massive festival stages. Ahead of venturing down the highway from Brisbane to play The Blurst Of Times festival at the Factory Theatre, keyboardist and vocalist Sarah Spencer chats with … Continue reading INTERVIEW: Blank Realm
Guitarist Chris Forsyth widened his audience considerably last year with his album Solar Motel and now, with the band he formed to perform that album live, he has a new record Intensity Ghost which came out last week on No Quarter. Here’s the 11 minute epic opening track from it called ‘The Ballad of Freer Hollow’. Below you can also check out their very cool cover … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Chris Forsyth and the Solar Motel Band | The Ballad of Freer Hollow
It’s quite surprising that this is Jeff Tweedy’s first solo album given the extent of his career as frontman and principle songwriter with Wilco. Most would have expected him to develop a solo career on the side. He’s always shown an openness to collaborate (Loose Fur, Neil Finn) and he’s played plenty of solo shows yet this is his first foray under his own name … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Tweedy – Sukierae
Sarah Belkner has completed her transition from her previous incarnation as Miss Little. Now recording under her own name the New Zealander (based in Sydney for the last 7 years) has released the clip for the first single ‘With You’ from her forthcoming album – the recipient of an Australian Council Of The Arts New Work Grant and Pozible crowd funding. The song is a wonderfully poised … Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Sarah Belkner – With You (video)
‘Elvis’ Flaming Star’ is the first single from POND’s forthcoming album, Man It Feels Like Space Again, which will be released on Friday January 23. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: POND – Elvis’ Flaming Star
The Datsuns first hit the hard rock scene like like a lit firecracker back in 2002 and now on their sixth time around they’ve released one of their strongest albums. Deep Sleep takes in all the usual elements that make up the band’s DNA – glam, stoner and garage rock with some MC5 ramalama and an endless supply of riffs and yelps and big choruses … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: The Datsuns – Deep Sleep
Johnny Marr certainly hasn’t wasted time with his second solo album. When he toured Australia in January it was the end of touring for The Messenger (2013) and he was hoping to get back into the studio as quickly as possible. With Playland he’s made good on his word, continuing to mine big indie guitar sounds, anthemic vocals and now some electronic undercurrents, with mixed … Continue reading ALBUM REVIEW: Johnny Marr – Playland
In a haze of a neon-lit smoke machine comes the new Jonny Telafone single/video ‘The Prayer’. The smeared and dubbed-out electronic lothario doom-pop is the first taste of his new album Romeo Must Cry, out on Chapter Music early in 2015. Continue reading NEW MUSIC: Jonny Telafone – The Prayer
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