Cleveland Ohio’s Cloud Nothings are getting all the love at the moment for their carefree jangle guitar pop not disimilar to Beach Fossils… Have a listen, make up your own mind… MP3: Cloud Nothings | Understand At All Continue reading MP3: Cloud Nothings | Understand At All
Following last year’s brilliant Album (#2 in our end of year list) Girls have announced that a new mini album Broken Dreams Club will be released Nov 19th on Pod via Inertia. The duo are giving away a download of one of the tracks Heartbreaker… MP3: Girls | Heartbreaker Continue reading MP3: Girls | Heartbreaker
Matador have announced that a new Kurt Vile 7″ will be released digitally – Oct 25th and on 7″ – Nov 9th. This’ll tide you over before his new album comes out early in 2011. Tasty live in studio version of Dead Alive below too… MP3: Kurt Vile | In My Time Continue reading MP3: Kurt Vile | In My Time
Gotye’s last album Like Drawing Blood was voted Triple J listeners’ favourite album of 2006, was iTunes UK’s Album Of The Year in 2008 and in 2007 he won the ARIA Award as Australia’s Best Male Artist. Gotye returns with a new single Eyes Wide Open from a new album that will see the light of day next year. In the meantime – grab the single and … Continue reading MP3: Gotye | Eyes Wide Open
Greg Dulli’s The Twilight Singers have a new album due out early in 2011 on Sub Pop, here’s a sneak preview featuring Ani Di Franco… MP3: The Twilight Singers (Feat. Ani DiFranco) | Blackbird and the Fox Continue reading MP3: The Twilight Singers (feat. Ani Di Franco) | Blackbird & The Fox
Brooklyn’s Blank Dogs are set to release their new LP Land and Fixed on 12th October via Captured Tracks. Blank Dogs is essentially the solo vehicle for Mike Sniper who has released a bunch of singles, EPs and last year’s Under and Under LP that picked up some rave reviews for its post punk dark pop…think Joy Division and Sisters Of Mercy in a lo-fi … Continue reading MP3: Blank Dogs | Northern Islands
Another band adding to the current surge in popularity of pop-flaovoured garage rock is Texas’ Young Girls. Clean and simple Strokes meets Black Lips riffs, pop melodies with a tinge of 80s UK alt-pop. Nice stuff… MP3: Young Girls | Six Pack Back Stab Continue reading DS recommends… Young Girls
I caught Deep Sea Arcade a few weeks back launching their new single Keep On Walking and on first listen it stood out immediately as a catchy, stomping little gem. Grab the MP3 below and catch the lads on tour… MP3: Deep Sea Arcade | Keep On Walking Tour Dates Thu 30 Sept – KAROVA HOTEL, BALLARAT – Cloud Control Tour Fri 1 Oct – … Continue reading MP3: Deep Sea Arcade | Keep On Walking
Sydney’s The Holidays have a new album Post Paradise out at the end of the month and they’re kindly giving away the single Broken Bones… DOWNLOAD They’ve gone for a lusher, electronic tinged pop sound, like Wild Beasts minus the art pop, hanging at a sparkling, summer pop camp. Check the album preview clip below… Continue reading MP3: Grab a copy of the new single from The Holidays…
If you were as taken as us by The War On Drugs’ debut Wagonwheel Blues then the good news is they have a new 12″ Future Weather due out at the end of October via the ever reliable Secretly Canadian. Apparently they are already well into the recording of an album proper which won’t be too far behind the 12″. Get a taste of the … Continue reading MP3: The War On Drugs set to release new album…
Black Mountain have a new album Wilderness Heart out 17th September via Jagjaguwar/Inertia and it promises to continue their bold stoner psych sound. LISTEN/DOWNLOAD: Black Mountain | The Hair Song Continue reading MP3: Black Mountain | The Hair Song
Nathan Williams aka Wavves has got his shit together, picked up Jay Reatard’s rhythm section and recorded his best record to date in the upcoming King Of The Beach – due out 3rd Sept via Pod/Inertia in Australia. You can already grab a digital copy over at iTunes… I’ll let you do the searching. In the meantime here is a taster in the form of … Continue reading MP3: Wavves | Post Acid
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