Fresh off last year’s Warped Tour, Disalto just released their second full-length album One Beacon In The Strand. The band, whose name means “by leaps” in Italian, blends influences like A Perfect Circle, Switchfoot, Smashing Pumpkins, At the Drive-In and Radiohead to produce a punk/emo/early nineties alternative rock sound. The members of the band each hold their own and work hard to complement each other. This is not a band that is competing with one…
“Tres Brujas”, The Sword’s first video as part of their self-described “Post-Apocalyptic Western Trilogy” premiered earlier today and is very much everything one could have expected – blood, gadgets, samurai swords and hard rocking spacy jams in ….ermmm space! Check out the video below. Warp Riders, the new The Sword record, is out this week via Kemado Records. You can download the song here.
Sadly, Brian Eno’s notoriety comes as a consequence of his, albeit excellent, production work for some of the most influential albums of our time, like U2’s Joshua Tree, in the detriment of his pioneering ambiental/experimental/minimalistic solo work. Yes, Eno is back with a new record this year under Warp Records (his first with the label), who recently confirmed the leaks and rumors according to which the artist would be releasing new material soon. The new…
Your favorite orchestral indie maestro is back, as Sufjan Stevens released a brand new 8-track, one hour long EP, titled “All Delighted People”, this weekend all without any notice. I’m gonna spare you the details, as I’m sure your just as curious to hear the new material as I was I first heard about it, so I’ll just leave you to the full EP stream below. Of course, you can buy the EP for the…
Here’s to starting off the week with a big smile and on dancing steps with Ted Leo and the Pharmacists’ latest brillinat video for “Bottled in Cork”. The video premiered today on funnyordie.com and in it the band gets convinced by Reginald VanVoorst, played by the hilarious Paul F. Tompkins, to stage their new album “The Brutalist Bricks” as a Broadway musical. Of course, what follows is a slew of intensive rehersals before the musical is performed…
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Having already released a dazzling LP this year in the form of the critically acclaimed “Cosmogramma”, Flylo is set to put out some new material at the end of September when his new seven piece EP titled “Pattern+Grid World” is set to ascend. One of the tracks off the EP, the dizzy synth infused Camera Day, which just as good could had been the soundtrack for an acid trip video game, can be streamed right…
Layered down with typical Karin synths, haunting drums and vocals, as well as re-arranged lyrics, Fever Ray’s recent homage to Peter Gabriel’s “Mercy Street” could be considered more of a reinterpretation than a cover. Here’s a little something she had to say about the project: We made it more intense and faster to fit our eccentric percussionists [sic] and energetic live musicians. It is a monotone track but we worked with the dynamics trying to…
Grinderman, Grinderman, does whatever a grinder can Laser beams from their eyes The Bad Seeds in disguise Look out! Here comes the Grinderman! A new song? Listen guy: It’s a tune called “Heathen Child” And so to boost my indie cred The video, I shall embed Hey there! There goes the Grinderman! Anyway. While perusing Pitchfork’s slender form for the Lanegan video below, I chanced upon this video for “Heathen Child”, from Grinderman’s upcoming sophomore…
There are few things in this world that make my brain quiver more appreciatively than news of a new Mark Lanegan album. So let’s all get a -quiverin’, because Hawk is released this week – his latest collaboration with the lady we music cricket types are mysteriously obligated to label “Scottish chanteuse”, Isobel Campbell. That his work with Campbell tends to paddle indifferently around the more insipid depths of Lanegan’ s catalogue matters very little…
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