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MONO have released a video for previously unheard album opener “Legend” from their forthcoming album, For My Parents.  The 12 minute epic is paired with unimaginably gorgeous time-lapse photography of Icelandic landscapes by celebrated nature photographer/filmmaker Henry Juh Wah Sun. The Japanese instrumental rock quartet will be releasing For My Parents on Temporary Residence Ltd on … Read more

“Goat merge spiralling psych rock and giddy afrobeat influences to startling effect.” Rocksound “Goat made me pull my shirt off and start quoting Predator 2 – ‘Vooddo magic.  Fucking voodoo magic, man’!”  John Doran, The Quietus Rocket Recordings will be releasing the second single, ‘Let It Bleed’ from their forthcoming debut album, World Music on … Read more

And The Unicorn is the first solo album from Robots In Disguise Sue Denim, to be released on 13th August 2012 on Sue’s own label, Superhealthy. And The Unicorn is Sue’s 10-song début solo release.  Recorded and co-produced in North Wales with award-winning producer/mixer David Wrench (Bear In Heaven, Caribou, The School, James Yorkston, Y … Read more

In Your Room, the debut album from Australia’s Cameras, garners the sounds of The National and the orchestral flair of Arcade Fire, honing into a thrilling alt-rock edge.  The album sees its long awaited UK release on Manimal Vinyl on 6th August 2012. Cameras formed after Eleanor Dunlop (vox/keys) and Fraser Harvey (vox/lead guitar) discovered … Read more

“… a smart progression from Ashworth’s Casiotone recordings, presenting that project’s bittersweet introspection with more nuanced production.”  Pitchfork Advance Base is the new project by Chicago, Illinois singer songwriter, and producer, Owen Ashworth (formerly Casiotone for the Painfully Alone).A Shut-In’s Prayer is Ashworth’s first full-length release in over three years, and his first under the … Read more

“Honest, life-affirming and infectious, and it’s that rare concentration of directness and simplicity that makes Fang Island so uniquely and wonderfully inclusive.” Pitchfork “Fang Island are simply killer fun, a proper gang who sing collectively and pummel their guitars without recourse to errant soloing.”  MOJO **** Brooklyn’s beloved guitar-anthem optimists Fang Island premier a track … Read more

Little Gang is centred around the unsettled energy of Stockholm based musician, Jacob Snavely.  After numerous relocations in his native USA, a move from San Francisco to London was in order.  Not long after setting up camp in London, fellow Bay Area cronies Two Gallants came to the call, and after a year and a … Read more

Pop Tune is the 18th studio album from Osaka, Japan’s Shonen Knife, released on 2nd July 2012 via Damnably.  The new record features ten original songs produced by Naoko and manager Atsushi, recorded by Ippei Suda (Afrirampo/Balzac) and mastered by Koichi Hara (Afrirampo/ OOIOO/Boredoms).  The UK and European release features special ‘orange’ coloured artwork by … Read more

“Imagine a Yo La Tengo too tight to get cute or far out, dispensing a Velvet Underground derivative, fluent enough to warm the erectile tissue of anyone with a thing for guitar drones.”  Rolling Stone 4/5 “I consider Wussy the best band in America I mean I like or love — no, make that love … Read more

Mascis has teamed up with a pair of old friends for the release of Heavy Blanket on Outer Battery Records on 4th June Mascis rounds up a couple of partners-in-crime from his adolescence with an eye and ear – towards shredding harder, wailing louder, and generally melting faces even more brutally than ever before. Stoner … Read more