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[soundcloud url=”https://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/113177550″ width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] In August 2012 Swedish band Goat released their debut album, World Music.  The record went on to become one of the most talked about albums of the year, topping many ‘Best of 2012’ lists and the following year, the band took the album on the road. Starting off a … Read more

“Islands, the long standing indie-pop enterprise fronted by ex-Unicorns member Nick Thorburn will be releasing Ski Mask in the UK on the 28th October.  Thorburn describes the record “like a summation of Islands, everything we’ve ever done distilled into one record.” Now the album has its own mockumentary featuring comedians Michael Cera, Bill Hader, Jon … Read more

Next month, The Quietus will host a night of bands on Norway’s Fysisk Format label, taking place at The Old Blue Last on October 29th with free entry! Headlining will be Norwegian noise rock pugilists, Årabrot, who released their latest self-titled album in August.  Read main man, Kjetil Nernes give a track by track account … Read more

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/105262679″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Three years since the last Dead Meadow release the band has seen line-up changes, continued their rigorous touring schedule and worked with legendary artists like Dave Davies of the Kinks. Members of the band have made solo records and Jason Simon has continued his country-Dylan-inspired Old Testament … Read more

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/104565881″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Russian Circles hit the road in the EU and UK with Chelsea Wolfe (who also supplies guest vocals on the album’s title track) in October. Both bands will play full headlining sets. Perhaps the most immediately apparent characteristic of the fifth Russian Circles album, Memorial is its … Read more

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/102109353″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Saint Rich is the musical partnership of Delicate Steve bandmates, Christian Peslak and Steve Marion.  Under the name Delicate Steve, Steve Marion recorded Wondervisions, an instrumental record released by David Byrne’s Luaka Bop label that entered the world via a glowing New York Times review.  He followed … Read more

“Explosions in the Sky and Wingo let their haunting instrumental wash over a fire-ravaged forest, a nod to the isolated setting of Prince Avalanche.”  Rolling Stone Hailed by everyone from The New Yorker and Rolling Stone to Judd Apatow to their hundreds of thousands of fans for the cinematic scale and sweep of its instrumental … Read more

Merge will reissue The Mountain Goats 2002 album All Hail West Texas in the UK on the 5th August 2013. The last of the “all-home-recordings albums” by the Mountain Goats and the only one about which that claim is true, All Hail West Texas was originally released as a free-standing compact disc on the late, … Read more

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/88994672″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] “A Shut-In’s Prayer finally brings to mind the eerie secular hymns of Springsteen’sNebraska, but written for the ones with their cars up on concrete blocks, who never made it past the city limits.”  Mojo Owen Ashworth is returning to the UK for the first time since 2010, when he officially … Read more