Ronboy singer songwriter based in Los Angeles, CA, released an EP “Velvet” which brings together a DIY indie energy with highly produced soundscapes. “Wake Up” is the band’s first single off of a gorgeous debut EP and it’s a tune that feels like a vision, a hazy feeling that follows you around all day. The song is immaculately crafted, with a carefully built arrangement that draws us in layer by layer until we’re surrendering ourselves to the waves of synths and honey-dipped reverb-y vocals. With a new single due “Always” is the next released track under Julia Laws’ moniker Ronboy following last year’s “Only a Broken Heart” plus collaboration with Matt Berninger (The National) and Resynator. Co-produced with Samuel Stewart (Lo Moon, Nightmare and the Cat), “Always” will be available on all streaming platforms June 24th, 2022.
Ronboy produces melancholy rock music with a similar soundscape to artists such as Sharon Van Etten, Wolf Alice, Fontaines D.C., Deep Sea Diver, Idles, Beck, and more. also for fans of the Weather Station.
Check out a live Recording of “Always” Produced and Mixed by Sterling Laws Directed and Edited by Julia Laws
production by Sterling Laws (Lo Moon, Kim Gordon, Matt Berninger, Liz Phair) Mixed by Mike Davis (Modest Mouse, Portugal the Man, The Head and The Heart, Lo Moon)
please give a listen to “Velvet” EP on bandcamp https://ronboy.bandcamp.com Its richness only adds to the general vibe of this track, described by Laws as “nostalgic and dreamy.”
Blondie has opened the floodgates of the past with their first-ever definitive collection, “Blondie: Against The Odds 1974-1982”, which will be out August 26th via UMe and The Numero Group. A collection of home recordings that have finally made it out of the band’s bedroom and into the public eye, their new song, “Mr. Sightseer,” serves as the B-side to a rare cover of The Doors’ “Moonlight Drive.”
In 1978, Debbie Harry and Chris Stein acquired a TEAC TCA-43 four-track reel-to-reel, giving them the freedom to pursue any musical whim they might have. “The lyric is not good at all,” Harry says of the track. “The song’s not too bad. It’s just a little simplistic. It didn’t ever get really developed or finished.”
The box set is a snapshot of the six years of work and two decades of material that was tucked away in Stein’s Woodstock barn. The release features 124 tracks and 36 previously unissued recordings, including the band’s first-ever basement studio session, outtakes, demos and alternate versions.
“Blondie: Against The Odds 1974-1982” also includes Blondie’s first six studio albums, which have been remastered from the original analogue tapes with vinyl cut at Abbey Road Studios. For a further glimpse into Blondies’ world, the box set includes liner notes by Erin Osmon, track-by-track commentary from all seven of the original band members, essays by producers Mike Chapman, Richard Gottehrer and KenShipley, a 120-page illustrated discography and hundreds of period photographs.
The box set is available in four formats, including a Super Deluxe Collectors’ Edition (10xLP, 1×7”, 1×10” in Red, White, and Black vinyl formats), plus Deluxe 4LP, Deluxe 8CD and 3CD editions.
Following the success of the three-disc compilation, ‘The Sun Shines Here’ (which documented the roots of Indie Pop from 1980-84), the prequel to “C86”, “C85” combines “name” bands with many obscurities making their debut on CD. Several acts on “C85” would eventually feature on that NME’s C86 collection: Primal Scream, The Wedding Present, the Mighty Lemon Drops, etc, who all had singles released in 1985.
Back in 1986, the NME’s latest mail-order cassette, C86, captured the latest trends in Indie music, inspired by the C81 tape from half a decade earlier. C86 became the NME’s best-selling compilation, selling an estimated 40,000 copies and eventually being re-issued on LP and cassette by Rough Trade the following year. Fast forward to 2014, the triple-CD edition celebrated the cult status of C86, which had come to embody a whole style of indie guitar music with 50 extra tracks.
“C85” bridges the gap between ‘The Sun Shines Here’ and ‘C86’, opening with undoubtedly the most vital British breakthrough band of that year in The Jesus & Mary Chain and closing with the debut from a band who’d have to wait several years for their chance, The Stone Roses. Along the way, we hear many key records by the likes of post-Undertones band That Petrol Emotion (their blistering debut ‘Keen’), The Woodentops, James, Del Amitri, The Housemartins (their debut ‘Flag Day’) and a then largely unknown Happy Mondays (again represented by their first single). Where discs one and two reflect the predominant indie pop sound with which “C86″ was most closely associated, disc 3 acknowledges the harder, more angular sounds of that era (encapsulated by the bands on the Ron Johnson label).
Alongside band biographies for every track is an introductory essay by one-time NME scribe Neil Taylor, the original co-compiler of “C86” and author of the book C86 And All That. In short, “C85” is essential for any fan of 80s independent music.
Released October 21st, 2022.
• 3CD collection pre-queling NME’s huge selling C86 compilation. • Featuring the best of the burgeoning indie scene from 1985. • Including tracks from The Jesus And Mary Chain, The Stone Roses, That Petrol Emotion, The Woodentops, James, Del Amitri, The Housemartins and many more.
The spiritual life ain’t all pious platitudes. This song is about how weird it gets, when you’re in love with the Source of Being and She’s not texting you back.
Ever since it hit me that I was never going to be loved and accepted on the scale of my pop star heroes, me and my bandmates have started to work on a different vision of pop, one more our own, one that gestures at the stranger truths of the human mind. Here we are in thrall to verbally adventurous nineties music like Bjork and Beck and the Silver Jews and them kinda non-linear geniuses.
As for the video by the amazing Haoyan of America, I basically told Haoyan a story I made up about a trans Joan of Arc narrowly avoiding her public execution, and then gave him free reign to do whatever he wanted with it, as long as Daphne Always (also seen in our recent “Forever in Sunset” video) played Joan. I adore the cracked brilliance of what came out.
Our new album ‘All Of Us Flames’ is out in Two weeks! Still time to pre-order the record and exclusive merch items from our store. Be warned, signed vinyl stock is running LOW!
We’ve been waiting for this moment for so long, First Aid Kit have a new album “Palomino”, will be our fifth album is due out November 4th and our new single “Out Of My Head” will be out Friday August 12th. In the meantime the sisters have offered up their rendition of Don Henley’s enduring heartland rock classic, and they say, “We wanted to give this 80s classic a softer folkier touch. It’s been so much fun performing this live at our shows with everyone singing along. Hopefully it can be a sweet soundtrack to the rest of your summer.”
For the UK! Big tour news coming soon.
Columbia Records, a Division of Sony Music Entertainment Released on: 2022-07-29
This is it, the holdout from The Cure catalogue that we’ve all been waiting for “Wish”. On vinyl, for the first time in a very long time.
“Wish” released in April 1992 It was The Cure’s 9th studio album and reached Number 1 in the UK Album Chart on its release. It also reached Number 2 in the USA, where it was nominated for a Grammy in the Best Alternative Music Album category. The first single to be released from the album, “High” was released in March 1992 and reached #8 in the UK Singles chart, but the album is probably best known for the 2nd single, “Friday I’m In Love” which reached #6 in May 1992. The 3rd and final single from the album was “A Letter To Elise” which peaked at #28 in October 1992.
The demos from this new version include “Miss van Gogh” and “Now Is the Time.” The release will be available as a three-CD set, a double LP, and a single CD on October 7th when it will also be released digitally.
All remastered at Abbey Road by Robert Smith and Miles Showell. Plua a 3CD set mops up all the period bootleg and rare stuff you’ve been enjoying on inferior You-tube quality for the last 20 years (Lost Wishes, saucy instrumental takes) plus studio out-takes, live versions, single mixes. When Robert Smith does reissues, he does them properly.
The new edition of the band’s ninth album features refined versions of songs, newly remastered by Robert Smith and MilesShowell at Abbey Road Studios. In addition to the familiar material, the three-CD reissue contains one disc with 24 previously unreleased tracks by The Cure. “Wish” was released in 1992, following the best-selling trajectory of “Disintegration“. Talking with music critic Simon Reynolds in 1992, Robert Smith elaborated on the record’s concept. “In one sense, it’s me addressing myself. It’s about the personal sometimes fall into. On another level, it’s addressed to people who expect me to know things and have answers – fans, and on a personal level, certain individuals”.
The less-is-more axiom often holds true in the pursuit of the ideal deluxe reissue. This three-CD edition of The Cure’s follow-up to “Disintegration” doesn’t come stuffed to the gills with bonus material and yet it doesn’t leave the listener wanting for more. In fact, the new and expanded “Wish” provides a more-than-adequate sense of context for a landmark title in The Cure’s discography. On first glance, the choice not to add an entire live show might seem curious from a band that’s celebrated for its marathon-length live sets, but that’s arguably just as well. (Also, the 1993 live album “Show” turns 30 next year, so one presumes that any unearthed live recordings from this period might surface at that point.) The fact is, an exquisitely tasteful Abbey Road remaster and a heap of demos are enough—especially since they flatter and augment the original release rather nicely.
The 3CD Deluxe Edition : includes The Original 1992 album remastered by Robert Smith and Miles Showell at Abbey Road. Compiled and Expanded by Robert Smith
Disc One: “Demos”– All Previously Unreleased Versions 4 x 1990 Studio Vocal Demos (3 x Album Songs & 1 B-Side) 18 x 1991 Studio Instrumental Demos
Disc Two: The Original 1992 album remastered by Robert Smith
Disc Three: “Studio Out-Takes / 12” Remixes / Live Performances” 1 x 1992 Manor Studio Instrumental -Previously Unreleased 4 x ‘Lost Wishes’ ( 4 x Instrumental Demos / Mail Order-only Cassette release -First Time on CD 4 x 12” Single Mixes (Unavailable since 1992) 3 x Live tracks recorded at the Kilburn National, London in 1992 – Previously Unreleased
TO MARK THE RELEASE OF THE 30TH ANNIVERSARY REMASTER OF ‘WISH’ ON NOVEMBER 25TH, ROBERT WILL BE HOSTING A SPECIAL TIM’S TWITTER LISTENING PARTY. JOIN US ON THE DAY THE ALBUM IS RELEASED FROM 11PM GMT. USING THE HASHTAG #WISHLISTENINGPARTY
Echo Mars (she/her), Lu Racine (he/they), and Nathaniel van Osdol (they/them) formed Thus Love in 2018, but due to many pandemic-ridden setbacks, it’s likely this might be the first you’ve heard of the Brattleboro post-punk band. As three self-identifying trans artists seeking connection through communal creativity, it was music that offered them the freedom to express their shared lived experience. Signed to Captured Tracks in the spring of 2022, the band’s debut album“Memorial” arrives this October.
Although unmistakable is a nod to classic 80s cuts, “Memorial” is an infectious mix of experimental musicianship, powered by Thus Love’s unique sonic identity. The single “In Tandem”is an instant, charged post-punk hit, ear-pleasingly rhythmical and defiant in its character – at once music we want to hit repeat on. The architects of their own unbreakable bond, songs on the album explore dark, ugly and vulnerable themes, stories are told with profound honesty, all framed with hope and a will that love, ultimately, conquers.
Thus Love on Captured Tracks Released on: 2022-07-26
West Australian boogie masters Datura4 return with their highly anticipated fifth album “Neanderthal Jam“. Fronted by Dom Mariani of legendary Oz garage-rockers The Stems, “Neanderthal Jam” is packed with new tracks of psychedelicised blues and full-tilt heavy rock that were jammed out and recorded at their favourite south-west farmhouse studio. Having already released four acclaimed albums on Alive Naturalsound Records
Previous albums Demon Blues (2015),Hairy Mountain (2016), Blessed is the Boogie (2019) and West Coast Highway Cosmic (2020) —Neanderthal Jam sees Datura4 building upon and going beyond on another diverse collection of tastefully crafted songs.”
Suede are about to release a new album, “Autofiction”, on September 16th via BMG Records. The band shared its second single, “15 Again.” In a press release, frontman Brett Anderson describes it as “a song about falling in love with life for the first time.” Previously Suede had shared the album’s first track, “She Still Leads Me On,”.
The Britpop originators and survivors legally have to go by the name The London Suede in America, thanks to an American jazz singer also named Suede. Longtime collaborator Ed Buller, who has produced many of the band’s albums, including their first three, produced “Autofiction“. The album is first in many years and is the follow-up to 2018’s The Blue Hour.
Suede—Brett Anderson (vocals), Mat Osman (bass), Simon Gilbert (drums), Richard Oakes (guitars), and Neil Codling (keyboards)—began the album in a rehearsal studio in the Kings Cross area of London.
“Autofiction” is our punk record,” Anderson said in a previous press release. “No whistles and bells. Just the five of us in a room with all the glitches and fuck-ups revealed; the band themselves exposed in all their primal mess. “Autofiction” has a natural freshness, it’s where we want to be,” Anderson added.
“When we were rehearsing and writing this record it was this sheer, physical rush,” said Osman. “That thing where you’re hanging on for dear life.”
“She Still Leads Me On” is about Anderson’s mother and the lyrics to “Autofiction” as a whole were fuelled by Anderson’s two acclaimed autobiographies, 2018’s Coal Black Mornings and 2019’s Afternoons with the Blinds Drawn.
Suede initially broke-up in 2003 following the release of their poorly received fifth album, 2002’s “A New Morning“. They reformed in 2010 and made a full on comeback in 2013 with the release of “Bloodsports”, which was their first new album in over a decade and was very well-received by critics. That was followed by 2016’s “Night Thoughts” and 2018’s “The Blue Hour“. This makes “Autofiction” the band’s fourth album since reforming and ninth album overall (not counting 1997’s two-disc B-sides collection “Sci-Fi Lullabies“).
American multi-instrumentalist Noah Benjamin Lennox better know as Panda Bear and equally musical centipede Peter Kember aka Sonic Boom (co-founder of Spacemen 3) have worked together again.
Panda Bear (Noah Lennox) and Sonic Boom (Peter Kember) have teamed up to release their first joint album, “Reset”. The duo met via MySpace nearly a decade ago when Panda Bear gave a shout out to Sonic Boom’s former band, Spacemen 3, in the liner notes of his solo album “Person Pitch”. Kember messaged Lennox to express his gratitude, and they became fast friends. Since then, Sonic Boom has co-mixed a few Panda Bear albums, but after Kember moved to Portugal to be closer to Lennox, the pair decided to take their collaboration to the next level on “Reset“.
Their looping psych-pop demos began to take shape as lockdowns forced people into isolation, and the project provided them with an escape from the bleak reality in which the rest of the world was immersed. The result is an album rife with escapism, glittering synthesizers, and a Beach Boys influence obvious in the bells of “Go On” and the doo-wop vocals of “Edge of the Edge.” A record that provided a much-needed diversion from the dull day-to-day of life during a pandemic, it’s a nine-song cure for COVID seclusion.
And here’s the second bright-coloured taster, named “Edge Of The Edge“.
The result is a new album, titled “Reset“. It’s inspired by Kember’s collection of records from the ’50s and ’60s and comes out on 12th August.
Panda Bear & Sonic Boom – “Edge Of The Edge” from the album ‘Reset’ out 12th August 2022 on Domino Recording Co.
The Fat Angel Sings 