Nothing ‘Temporary’ about Belgian shoegazers

ANTWERP’S shoegaze outfit NEWMOON have just released their third studio album, ‘Temporary Light,’ via [PIAS] Recordings (EU) and Manifesto Records (US). And it’s an album full of magical moments, harking back to the band’s roots, yet retaining a fresh approach keeping their music at times alluring, dreamy, and abrasive. Airy vocals blend with lush guitars, creating…

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Liverpool’s YOBS tease May album with CYANIDE

LIVERPOOL four-piece YOBS have just dropped another trademark ripper from forthcoming self-titled debut album, due May 3rd (Fuzz Club Records). The band deal in hard-edged, primitive garage-punk salvos, abrasive rock ‘n’ roll that bludgeons and rattles your speakers as much as your bones. “‘Cyanide’ is a song Ali [bassist Alex Smith] wrote the music for…

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Welcome to the world of MIEKO SHIMIZU: Dysfunctional, Quirky, Wonderful.

RADICAL, nonconformist, Japanese singer and multi-instrumentalist MIEKO SHIMIZU has re-released her offbeat, unworldly, ‘My Tentacles’ (Street Furniture Records.) The album, a breathtaking collection of songs bristling with quirky, dysfunctional beats and chimeric fusions, also features themesmeric standout track, ‘Think Like a Swarm,’ reminiscent of Laurie Anderson’s art meets outsider pop music sensibilities. “’Emergence,’ the book by Steve Johnson, fascinated me,” she…

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Trip The Light Fantastic with JOHN BRAMWELL

FOLLOWING the release last of month’s ‘The Light Fantastic’ album, former ‘I Am Kloot’ frontman JOHN BRAMWELL is currently undertaking an extensive UK tour, with several extra November dates now added to the schedule. ‘The Light Fantastic’ is a masterclass in emotionally charged and melodically driven tunes for the adventurous, with all twelve tracks written by Bramwell,…

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The Changingman: JOHN MICHIE is back, and he’s got plenty to say

THE artist formerly known as The John Michie Collective is currently teasing the release of January 2025’s album ‘Explore’ with a series of videos under new name, MICHIE. “It’s just the videos right now, but at some point I will be doing physical formats,” he explained. “I can’t do them yet as Bandcamp won’t allow…

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SUSAN O’NEILL’S soulful ‘DRIVE’ – out now

OUT today, the intimate, reflective, husky, sultry, soulful ‘Drive’ (Star House Collective) from SUSAN O’NEILL – with the song accompanied by a self-directed video which saw O’Neill team up with longtime collaborator, Christopher Luke. “The song fell out of my mouth and onto the page in one brief sitting,” she explains. “I’m trying to be…

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Shades of Dylan on Crockett’s ‘$10 Cowboy’

AMERICAN singer-songwriter CHARLEY CROCKETT has teased the release of his April 26 album, ‘$10 Cowboy,’ with a live performance of the title track on the Jimmy Kimmel Show. And if the name sounds familiar, it is. Charley is a distant relative of American folk hero Davy Crockett, and he’s no stranger to London either having…

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KEITH’S ‘waiting for his man’

OUT TODAY in celebration of Lou Reed’s birthday, a wonderful version of ‘I’m Waiting For The Man,’ by KEITH RICHARDS. “To me, Lou stood out,” said Keith. “The real deal! Something important to American music and to all music. I miss him, and his dog.” The track forms part of the Lee Reed tribute album,…

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A man called DEZ – he who DAREs

DEZ DARE ventures further into the abyss than ever before with today’s release of his fourth album – and first released via God Unknown Records –  ‘A Billion Goats. A Billion Sparks. Fin.’ On previous records Dare has fought beasts and beats alike, waging a fuzz war and tackling the biggest topics the world has…

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AS PARTICLES COLLIDE: The world’s greatest fcuked-up space rock

AS PARTICLES COLLIDE – the solo project of Kyle Breidenfield – have just released new album ‘Within Cells Interlinked Pt.1.’  the follow up to last year’s hugely successful, ‘Fear of Flying.’ And as expected, it’s another glorious, over the top, way, WAY out there slice of the very best, grandiose, fucked-up space rock known to…

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