Winnipeg indie pop outfit Boats make impossibly hooky pop songs about death, being old, girls, glowing bears and escaping the spectral plane of existence.  All of which can be found on the band’s sparkling third album, A Fairway Full Of Miners, released 20thMay on  Kill Rock Stars. The band will be playing the Great Escape in May and playing a number of UK … Read more

“World Music sounds incredible – a pitch-perfect mix of Black Sabbath, Can, Fela Kuti, Funkadelic and the northern-lights psych of countrymen such as Pärson Sound or Träd Gräs och Stenar.  The Guardian ***** “…surging, mercurial lead guitar battles big-mama blues wailing over bent boogie rhythms, before melting into a spooked, satanic acoustic-guitar fade.”  Sunday Times “Goat made me pull … Read more

Grim Tower is the collaborative project of Black Mountain’s Stephen McBean(vocals/guitar/synths) and Imaad Wasif (vocals/guitar).  Both songwriters, Canadians now based in Los Angeles, come together on Anarchic Breezes to explore a mutual interest in the darker traditions of song and detuning found in the American Primitive Archives.  Their debut album Anarchic Breezes combines old-timey folk music with droning doom-rock. Anarchic Breezes was recorded by McBean at his … Read more

New York guitar goddess, Marnie Stern, shares a new video for ‘Immortals’ taken from her latest album, Chronicles of Marnia.  Directed by Allie Avital Tsypin, the video depicts a humorous and theatrical mythology around the idea of being a ‘rock star’ set against the reality of an independent musician.  It shows, Marnie, the glamorous rock star shredding to a crowd … Read more

[bandcamp track=1297660807 bgcol=FFFFFF linkcol=4285BB size=venti]  Winnipeg indie pop outfit Boats make impossibly hooky pop songs about death, being old, girls, glowing bears and escaping the spectral plane of existence.  All of which can be found on the band’s sparkling third album, A Fairway Full Of Miners, released 20th May on  Kill Rock Stars. Recorded in the spring/summer of 2012 by Ryan McVeigh at Prairie … Read more

“Wolfe’s sound reaches new depths, as evidenced by the lead-off track, “The Way We Used To”. With very little beyond the cut’s hollowed-out drums and sparse harmonies as support, Wolfe’s voice is a gorgeous beacon of light and soul in a vast wilderness of despair.” – Consequence of Sound   “Chelsea Wolfe’s songs (and that crystalline voice) … Read more

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/75097128″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] “Akin to the type of freak-pop perversion dished out by daring pioneers like Devo andThe Flaming Lips.” – Wired “Sunburn’, from the band’s forthcoming X’ed Out, embraces the care-free summer dreaming of So-Cal pop-punk, crafting a healthy marriage of dense, time signature warping melodies and power chord crunch. – Pitchfork “Experimental indie rockers … Read more

[bandcamp track=3199928082  bgcol=FFFFFF linkcol=4285BB size=venti] New York guitar goddess, Marnie Stern, has just announced that she will be coming to the UK at the end of May.  Her new album, The Chronicles of Marnia, which is out 18th March on Kill Rock Stars, finds Marnie not only working with a new drummer (Oneida’s Kid Millions), but subtracting from her normally dense … Read more

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/79125622″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Belfast, Northern Ireland’s And So I Watch You From Afar premiere a second new track from their forthcoming third album All Hail Bright Futures today, sharing the boisterous “Big Thinks Do Remarkable” via Fake DIY  HERE ASIWYFA recently posted the first single, “Like A Mouse“ available for streaming HERE. All Hail Bright Futures could be taken as both … Read more