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Five years after the release of “Deceiver“, DIIV have announced their fourth album, “Frog in Boiling Water”. Produced by Chris Coady and set for release on May 24th via Fantasy Records, the LP was reportedly a four-year process that nearly broke the band before the album was completed. The project’s first single “Brown Paper Bag” is a snarling alt-rock cut that takes cues from ’90s shoegaze and the sludgy beauty of bands like Audioslave and Smashing Pumpkins.

Both the title and the themes of the new record reference “The Boiling Frog” in Daniel Quinn’s The Story of B. The band explained, “If you drop a frog in a pot of boiling water, it will of course frantically try to clamber out. But if you place it gently in a pot of tepid water and turn the heat on low, the frog will sink into a tranquil stupor, exactly like one of us in a hot bath, and before long, with a smile on its face, it will unresistingly allow itself to be boiled to death.” Cheery stuff here.

The band added: “We understand the metaphor to be one about a slow, sick, and overwhelmingly banal collapse of society under end-stage capitalism, the brutal realities we’ve maybe come to accept as normal. That’s the boiling water and we are the frogs. The album is more or less a collection of snapshots from various angles of our modern condition which we think highlights what this collapse looks like and, more particularly, what it feels like.”

Speaking of end-stage capitalism, get a jump on consuming their product by pre-ordering “Frog in Boiling Water “

DIIV—Zachary Cole Smith [lead vocals, guitar], Andrew Bailey [guitar], Colin Caulfield [vocals, bass], and Ben Newman [drums]—craft the soundtrack to personal resurrection under the heavy weight of metallic catharsis upheld by robust guitars and vocal tension that almost snaps, but never quite

The band’s new album will arrive on May 24th via Fantasy Records

Enter Austin’s Punk Band: The Bodysnatchers, composed of a coterie of musicians from Abilene,Del Rio, and Idyllwild, who’d all migrated to Austin in the early 70’s. Singer Larry James, guitarist Tom McMahon,”tenor” bassist Kyle Brock, (also in Eric Johnson’s Electromagnets), second bassist Jimmy Pettit, and brothers Chris Bailey on guitar and Ian Bailey on drums. The Bodysnatchers was a band that was ultimately unsustainable due to its force and volume.

Their live show experience left band and audiences alike, energized, yet completely drained. Only about seven shows were performed over a period of months. Although at the dawn of punk rock, their sound had an early metal ethic, and a wall of sound production. Too much was never enough, and true to their distorted indulgence of stupidity and carelessness – It’s live!

released February 15, 2024

Goat Girl are very excited to share our new tune ‘Ride Around’ with yaz, we had so much fun making this song and the video too with our pals at Foreign Body Productions

it’s the first single from our new album “Below The Waste”, which we co-produced with the amazing John ‘Spud’ Murphy and it’s coming out on 7TH June . it actually bangs can’t wait to share with yuz.

also check out the amazing artwork from our fave artistic sibling duo Toby and Aidan Evans-Jesra

THAT’S NOT ALL!!! we’re doing a test drive tour (beep beep) at the end of march where you can hear songs old and new, good and bad (jk they’re all bangers) so go hit that link in our bio to get that exclusive access to presale of album and gig tickets!!!

wait…. THERE’S MORE!! we’ll be hitting up some record stores around the release of the album and playing even more shows. we’re so gassed it’s good to be back, love and power, GG xxxxx4

Welsh band Buzzard Buzzard Buzzard have shared a live performance of our new single ‘National Rust’!

We’ve done a couple of these now so I think everyone knows the score but we recorded it in this big barn in mid-Wales by a bunch of sand dunes, we went running around in those damn dunes before we shot it so I was all sweaty and covered in sand and then the temperature dropped so I was freezing cold and itchy and trying to set up microphones and shouting at Ethan to stop slamming drums 24/7 it was class.

Our brand new record “Skinwalker” is coming out on April 12th. If you wanna be the proud owner of one of these freaky new tees or a spooky-ass glow in the dark vinyl then go get ’em from our official store.

 The new MOJO stars Liam Gallagher & John Squire, Beth Gibbons, St. Vincent, Steely Dan, The Rolling Stones, Michael Head, Waxahatchee, Lenny Kravitz, Marvin Gaye, Can, Mdou Moctar, Dion, Sam Lee, The Ramones, Mary Weiss, Studio One, Butthole Surfers and a 15-track Manchester CD. 

“Underdressed at the Symphony” is out March 1st on Secretly Canadian and available now for pre-order.

“Feeling Good Today” is straightforward: Simple guitar, piano, and autotune. Lighthearted and self-aware with a surprisingly sticky melody. Webster’s favorite song on the record, and the one appearance of autotune on “Underdressed at the Symphony”, as Webster sings an airy, acrobatic melody over a sweet, ambling guitar riff. It’s a snapshot of a day in the life of Faye Webster: a to do list of what she’s planning for the day from visiting her brother, to walking her dog, to buying something dumb. Anything to stay focused on the positive while processing a breakup.

Unlike most songs on the album, Webster and her band took many swings at “Feeling Good Today”, recording and scrapping numerous takes before returning to the demo and original recordings. “The demo can’t be beat,” says Webster, as the she sings through what almost sounds like a morning inner monologue, the tiny highs and lows that carry us through.

‘Underdressed at the Symphony’, out March 1st on Secretly Canadian.

Unearthing and refining material beginning from two 2013 sessions – one in The Brian Jonestown Massacre‘s Berlin studio, the other in Leeds alongside the band’s formative producer Richard Formby – neo-psych titans The Telescopes unveil their sixteenth album, one which emanates a superbly subversive style to their usual ethereal storms. The band, whilst still cruising across their sea of far-out noise improv at the time, were also creating a distinctly Telescopes-themed world of gorgeous song-based music: although separate from most of their discography, the tracks still retain a sense of melody, spontaneity and experimentation that is wholly theirs.

Saved by founding member Stephen Lawrie (rescuing and fine-tuning the album in his studio over the pandemic) following a hard drive loss, “Growing Eyes Becoming String” is at last ready to delight the ears of psych fans the world over, boasting well-honed evergreen tunes.

The Last Dinner Party are excited to announce details of their debut album, for release in February 2024. “Prelude To Ecstasy” will be released on 2nd February via Island Records. It was produced by James Ford in London, and will feature the breakthrough singles, ‘Nothing Matters’, ‘Sinner’, and ‘My Lady Of Mercy’. The band that’s on everyone’s lips. From supporting The Rolling Stones to Florence and the Machine, the 5-piece bring baroque indie glam to the masses on their debut.

Alongside this news, we’re also elated to share a new song from the album, ‘On Your Side,’ a love song with its hands tied. It’s about being so devoted to someone that not matter what they do, no matter how much it hurts, how much you know you should leave, you can’t escape.

Produced by the experienced James Ford, “Prelude To Ecstasy” is the hotly anticipated first album from London-based indie rockers The Last Dinner Party. Following a heady summer of 2023 that saw packed festival performances, a UK headline tour and a clutch of great singles (all of which are included here) the band cap it off with a modern, classic debut.