Interpol have shared a video for the song “Passenger” taken from their latest album, “The Other Side of Make-Believe”. with a video, directed by Jamie McDonald, below.
In a press release, McDonald states: “‘Passenger’ spoke to me. As soon as I listened to it, I was inspired. The idea behind the music video visually, is that of a fever dream. We’re exploring the subconscious, delving into dreams, and delving even deeper into nightmares. This is really a passion project for me.”
“The Other Side of Make-Believe” came out in July via MatadorRecords. In August, Interpol re-released their 2003 EP “TheBlack” EP.
“Passenger” is taken from the album ‘The Other Side of Make-Believe’ by Interpol, out now on Matador Records:
Legendary indie pop outfit Heavenly are re-issuing all four albums on vinyl over the next two years, starting with the band’s debut “Heavenly vs Satan” which comes out this Friday (11th November). Originally released by influential independent label Sarah Records in 1991,“Heavenly vs Satan” remains one of the most iconic records to emerge from the post-C86 indiepop scene. The re-issues will be released on the band’s own Skep Wax label and each one will also feature a seven-inch booklet with lyrics.
“Le Jardin de Heavenly” – originally released in 1992 – will follow in the summer of 2023, with “The Decline and Fall of Heavenly” (first released in 1994) and 1996’s “Operation Heavenly” both due in 2024. Special edition t-shirts will also go on sale alongside each album.
The band will also be playing their first shows for 28 years at the Bush Hall in London. Originally muted as a one-off, the initial date on Saturday 20th May sold out in 36 hours so the band have now added a second show on Friday 19th May.
For those unaware of just how inspirational Heavenly are, they’re regularly cited as one of the pioneers of indiepop and Pitchfork recently featured “Heavenly vs Satan” in its 25 best Indie Pop albums of the 1990s.
Formed from the ashes of Talulah Gosh in Oxford in 1989, Heavenly ignored the increasingly macho environment of the contemporary UK indie scene and forged a separate path, along with other bands on Sarah Records.
Later, having co-released their albums on K Records in Olympia, Heavenly toured the US, hooking up with bands in the embryonic riot grrrl scene. Heavenly’s quiet feminism became louder and more articulate, and the hostility of the UK music press less relevant. The indie-punk-twee scene was parting company with the fake-indie of the big labels and their ladrock bands. Back on home turf, Heavenly invited Bratmobile to tour with them and helped import the sound and politics of the riot grrrl movement to the UK.
Heavenly came to an abrupt and tragic end when drummer Mathew Fletcher took his own life in 1996. After a year’s hiatus, the group reformed as the short-lived Marine Research, before going their separate ways musically. Amelia Fletcher (vocals & guitar) and Rob Pursey (bass) currently play in The Catenary Wires and Swansea Sound. Peter Momtchiloff (guitar) plays in Would-Be-Goods and Tufthunter. While Cathy Rogers (keyboards) is now a renowned television producer.
Heavenly were Amelia, Mathew, Peter, Cathy and Rob.
They released four albums from 1991-96. All four will be re-released on vinyl over the next couple of years.
Songwriting project of Justin Sullivan (Kevin Morby, The Babies, Flat Worms). Songs from the cafe of eternal youth.
Earlier this year, Justin Sullivan, The longtime drummer for Flat Worms, The Babies, and Kevin Morby Band, shared his second solo solo album as Night Shop,”Forever Night“. Following after the record’s release, Sullivan is keeping his momentum up this year with a new double A-side, “Universal City / “Harness,” the band’s third release on Dangerbird Records. He has already shared the first single, “Universal City,” and today he’s back with “Harness,” .
“Harness” is a gorgeously textured and meditative effort, gently unfolding in a swirling mix of expansive instrumentation. Sullivan’s vocals and swaying harmonies cast an evocative spell, imbuing it with deep longing and inviting the listener to get lost in the track’s poignant moonlit beauty. Lyrically, the track finds Sullivan exploring the complicated territory of a relationship, recognizing the danger ahead and celebrating the unknown rather than running from it一“And when you said, Just come and take my hand/I thought, ‘There’s danger up ahead’/We closed our eyes and then we jumped right in/We closed our eyes and I don’t want to open them.”
Sullivan says of “Harness” and its counterpart, “Universal City:”
I’ve been describing them as the twin faces of Janus; the god of transitions and dualities. They reflect different perspectives on the same situation and the duality inherent in desire. “Harness” is about accepting a dynamic; submitting to it, wanting to indulge in it and celebrating it. A way of being in an unconscious space where you see only the beloved. Whereas “Universal City” reflected more of my conscious mind; seeing all the other things in life outside of that dynamic.
He goes on to explain of the accompanying video:’
I wanted to make a video with my friend Madeleine Daste because I love her sense of aesthetics and how she can create a sense of place and narrative without being heavy handed. She’s a romantic but also has the right amounts of humor and practicality to balance out that perspective which I think really serves the song. We just spent a few days together, driving around and basically talking about relationships the whole time, which I think created an overall romantic, playful and melancholic result.
Finally, he says the pair of singles may prove to be marks of where Night Shop is going next.
I definitely see them as a bridge to what’s to come. Or maybe they’re more like a rope ladder to climb out of a well haha. It’s been a rebuilding time in my life to say the least and these songs and the ones that I’ve begun writing have been really important for me. They’ve allowed me to believe that I will be in a different place soon, if I just keep following the music.
released November 8th, 2022 Recorded August 23rd and 24th Justin Sullivan: vocals, guitar, drums Jarvis Taveniere: bass, guitar, piano, synth
Cat Power performed a show at the Royal Albert Hall where she covered Bob Dylan‘s legendary 1966 gig in its entirety,
Speaking to The Guardian ahead of the gig, Power said: “It’s important for me to not do my thing. I’m not being Bob, not at all. I don’t know how to describe it – I’m just recreating it, that’s all. But not making it mine. I had the inkling that I should protect that period of time and him making that crossover. It’s like this precipice of time that changed music for ever.”
She continued: “My heart is racing, I’m terrified … It’s not like, ‘Oh what will Bob think?’ It’s like, ‘What am I doing? Am I doing something right?’ I’m going to cry.”
The gig took place on Saturday night (November 5th), with Cat Power (Chan Marshall) covering Dylan’s exact set from the gig. The first half of Marshall’s show was acoustic before she was joined by an electric band for the remainder.
Dylan played the Manchester Free Trade Hall at the end of his ‘Dylan Goes Electric’ tour in 1966. On a bootlegged version of the show it was mistakenly labelled as a gig at the Royal Albert Hall in London and has unofficially been known as such ever since.
In 1998 the bootlegged version of the gig was officially released under the title ‘Bob Dylan Live 1966, The “Royal Albert Hall” Concert’. Marshall’s show was originally announced in July. The musician said: “When I finally got the opportunity to play The RAH, it was a no brainer. I just wanted to sing Dylan songs. And as much as any, this collection of his songs, to me, belong there.”
Power has been covering a host of artists over recent years and released a new covers album earlier this year featuring versions of tracks by Frank Ocean, The Pogues, Iggy Pop, Nick Cave, Billie Holiday and others.
Reviewing ‘Covers’, Power said : “Often, cover records are dismissed as simply a bit of fun or as an indulgent aside to an artists’ original output, but when Cat Power does it, it’s nothing less than soul-nourishing.”
Black Honey have announced their third album ‘A Fistful Of Peaches’ – listen to new single ‘Heavy’ The Brighton band are due to release the new 12 track record – the follow-up to last year’s ‘Written & Directed’ – on March 17th, 2023 via FoxFive Records.
Arriving this week, the grunge-y and anthemic ‘Heavy’ sees frontwoman Izzy Phillips delve into “the parallels between grief and depression”. It also references Artax’s traumatic death scene in The NeverEnding Story (“Serotonin let us down/ Don’t wanna watch the white horse drown“).
“We wrote this song the day I found out the founder of our fan club passed away from COVID-19,” explained Phillips in a statement. “We were talking about the weight of grief and the way it holds you down.
“The weight of mental illness and how it brings you a deeper understanding grief. There’s always a glimmer of light though and I love how ‘Heavy’ has that kind of glitter darkness. It’s in my nature to become co-dependant and I think in this song I’m reaching for someone to help me climb back out.” This record is the most unapologetic and honest story telling so far and I never really understood what people meant about capturing a moment in time until now. I think this one is for my fellow neurodivergents and anyone who struggles with their mental illness.
“Heavy’ arrives with an accompanying official visual directed by and starring Dakota Schiffer from Drag Race UK. Schiffer explained that the visuals, which mark her directorial debut, are “centred around the themes of trans femininity”.
“A self-portrait of a struggling trans person who’s exterior appears alluring and glamorous but is constructed out of a need for survival,” she added. “That survival has led many trans people in history to endanger themselves in pursuit of euphoria.”
“A Fistful Of Peaches” features 12 tunes and we have launched with a “peach swirl” vinyl alongside a deluxe signed mountain mural picture disk.
Phillips explained: “If the vibe of ‘Written & Directed’ was creating this whole Tarantino world and this safe space of me almost refusing help and saying I was fine, then with this album it’s the opposite.
It’s their 3rd RECORD “A Fistful Of Peaches” is available to pre-order NOW. It lands on planet earth March 17th. Get it from our shop with a bunch of bundles that our fan club have already blitzed through.
Rage, confusion, despair, self-deception, and introspection—Madi Diaz cycles through the full spectrum of emotions on History Of A Feeling, her debut on ANTI-Records. It’s an album that undeniably marks Diaz’s status as a first-rate songwriter, a craft she’s spent years refining, and one wherein Diaz establishes herself as an artist capable of distilling profound feelings with ease.
When Roe V. Wade was overturned this past summer,
Patty Griffin’s song ‘Be Careful’ slipped into my subconscious.
It becamea mantra of strength that was playing consistently in the back of my heart and mind day in and day out, gently encouraging me to keep putting one foot in front of the other. It became a sort of battle cry directed toward anyone that wants to take away my rights to my own body and my reproductive freedom. You’ve awakened the beast
so you better ‘Be Careful.’ This Supreme Court decision affects all of us – ‘All the girls with the washing rags,’ ‘all the girls with the shopping bags,’ any person with a uterus and everybody with their own body. This is about control over another person’s human rights and freedoms – the right of making our own choices about our health and well being. When it was so hard to talk aboutwhat had just happened in our country, writing about it felt a little easier, so my best friend, Morgan Elizabeth Peirce, and I wrote our own verse, using the brilliant Patty Griffin’s song as a springboard into our present. It felt good to say andsing somethingthat means so much to us and I’m beyond thankful for this group of wonderful humans for coming together to put all of our voices and hearts on record, printing thismoment in time, putting it out into the world and harnessing thepower that is born when we unite and work together. I hope that anyone needing to hear this song, hears it and feels a little bit less alone.
released November 7th, 2022
Written by Patty Griffin Engineered & mixed by Alex Hope Performed by Madi Diaz, S.G. Goodman & Joy Oladokun
Peter Gabriel will tour across the UK & Europe in spring 2023. The tour marks his first shows outside of North America since 2014’s Back to Front Tour celebrating the era-defining album So. Produced by Live Nation, the 22 shows in Europe will kick off in Krakow, Poland on 18th May 2023, with dates in Italy, France, Germany, Denmark, Sweden, Norway, The Netherlands, Belgium, Switzerland, and the UK before wrapping in Dublin, Ireland on 25th June 2023.
The tour will then continue in North America in the late summer/fall with dates and ticket information to follow. i/o The Tour will see Gabriel playing new material from his forthcoming album “i/o”, as well as delving into his peerless catalogue of music, with hits, fan favourites and the unexpected. For the shows, Gabriel will be joined by regular band-mates Tony Levin, David Rhodes and Manu Katché.
Full details on the i/o album will follow. Peter Gabriel said of the tour: “It’s been a while and I am now surrounded by a whole lot of new songs and am excited to be taking them out on the road for a spin. Look forward to seeing you out there.” TICKETS: Tickets go on sale starting Friday 11 November 2022
Our favourite Irish indie-punks New Pagans have just dropped news of their second album and some new songs! “Making Circles of Our Own” is incoming on 17th February and available to pre-order on vinyl now!
Recorded at Badlands Studios in the Glens of Antrim in Ireland, “Making Circles of Our Own” is a glorious listen, incisive, inspiring, and uplifting. Building on the promise of their successful debut, “The Seed The Vessel The Roots and All”, it’s a complex, beautiful record you’re going to want to immerse yourself in come February!
In celebration of the new album news, and to tempt you further, the quintet have given us thenew double single “Karin Was Not A Rebel” and “Fresh Young Overlook“. This follows the recent first single from the album, the stunningly uplifting “Better People”.
The new album is available to pre-order now on limited Blue/Black or Eco-Mix vinyl and subscribers to our Legend vinyl subscription service will receive this as their February drop.
Francis of Delirium have released a new song called ‘Mirrors’. It’s included in the new EP of the same name, also out today, alongside the previously shared tracks ‘Come Out and Play’, ‘All Love’, and ‘The Funhouse’.
“The EP was largely a way for me to process and adapt to the chaos that continued to be more and more present in our everyday life,” Jana Bahrich explained in a statement. “As I was writing the EP, it felt like every moment got weirder along with my headspace.
I was inspired to mimic that mayhem by using heavier guitars and darker tones, leaning into drum sounds that were massive and bombastic, drawing from bands like Slint and The Smashing Pumpkins.” “Mirrors” by Francis of Delirium, part of “The Funhouse” EP
The Fat Angel Sings 