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VIOLENT FEMMES – ” Love ,Love,Love,Love,Love “

Posted: March 5, 2015 in MUSIC
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Violent Femmes’ most recent album, “Freak Magnet”, was originally scheduled for a 1998 release, but after Interscope dropped the band, it was held over until February of 2000. In the 15 years since, the Violent Femmes have put together a handful of compilations, covered Gnarls Barkley’s “Crazy,” gone on hiatus, returned at Coachella and even added a new member – drummer Brian Viglione. Last December, the trio, which also includes singer-guitarist Gordon Gano and bassist Brian Ritchie, continued its touring with a set at the Sydney Opera House, then decamped to Hobart, Tasmania, where they recorded the tracks for a new EP. Below, hear the first of these, “Love Love Love Love Love,” an ode to old-fashioned romance that was written by Jake Brebes.

“Happy to have some new recordings for people that have loved our music,” Gano enthuses, “and would be honoured to have a few new ears hear us for the first time too.”

The band plans to work on more tracks this spring. In June and July, Violent Femmes will be touring across America with the Barenaked Ladies.

MY SAD CAPTAINS – ” Extra Curricular “

Posted: March 4, 2015 in MUSIC
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London-based quartet MY SAD CAPTAINS release a new EP into the World today, titled ‘Extra Curricular’. The EP features a brand new version of the track which appeared on last year’s album ‘Best of Times’. Produced and mixed by Leo Abrahams (Wild Beasts, Brian Eno, Jon Hopkins), its whip smart and well-turned out, an ambient pop song full of sideways sonic glances and melodic detours. The video was filmed by the band’s Dan Davis and Nick Goss on location at the Spanish Riding School of Vienna, home of the famed Lipizzaner Horses. It features a dancing white stallion in the palatial surrounds of the school’s main arena. The video contrasts the song’s notions of habit and endurance with images of a completely alternative type of kinship. A strange, archaic relationship between the horse and the rider and the groom.

The EP also features new songs plus a fresh recording of Keeping On, Keeping On, a song whose pulsing electronica on record took flight as the band developed it on tour last year

WULF – ” Fire “

Posted: March 3, 2015 in MUSIC
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Taken from their upcoming EP “Lairs”, WULF’s debut single “Fire” is already on the road to being a hit. Picked up by radio one’s  Zane Lowe and clocking up over 95,000 streams in three weeks, “Fire” is giving us a taste of what’s to come from the band that formed sort of by accident,

WULF came to be following the break up of a previous, unsuccessful group when songwriter Josh and drummer Jimmy simply kept rehearsing. Guitarist Sean was recruited online and the band began working with James Kenosha, who’d previously helped the likes of Dry The River and Pulled apart By Horses to greatness. “Suddenly we had this one guy who could create anything,” says Josh. “You go in there with an idea about what you want to do and it’s no longer a contest. The right parts just came at the right points and suddenly we thought: this has really got something.”

The FIREWORKS – ” Switch Me On “

Posted: March 2, 2015 in MUSIC
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The Fireworks. The London band do not dillydally. Buzzy guitars blast out as soon as you hit play. Sharp pop inspired by the Buzzcocks and the Shop Assistants jumps out and swiftly grabs you and pulls you out of the dull world and into something kaleidoscopic and exciting. The Fireworks are a loud fuzzy pop band. We are Matthew Rimell (vocals/guitar), Isabel Albiol (bass), Emma Hall (vocals/tambourine) and Shaun Charman (drums/additional guitar)

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The record opens with With My Heart and Runaround, the best one-two punch of any record in recent memory. With My Heart starts with a Mary Chain cacophony and then Emma Hall launches in with her cool delivery. Runaround quickly follows with its clamoring guitars and undeniable chorus, and it doesn’t let up. You might think that they couldn’t sustain this shockingly good barrage of great songs, but they do. Hall trades vocal duties with guitarist Matthew Rimmell to keep you on your toes and his Corner of My Mind and Let You Know offer up a more autumnal sound to even out the pace of the album

The Fireworks may sound like a throwback to the late 80’s UK underground and the C-86 scene to some, but a record this good never goes out of style.

ALT J – ” Pusher “

Posted: February 27, 2015 in MUSIC
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From the album ‘This Is All Yours’  Alt J have revealed the gloomy new video for “Pusher,” the latest single off the band’s This Is All Yours,  Based on a concept by Alt-J frontman Joe Newman and brought to life by Division Paris and director Thomas Rhazi, the video features a man’s agonizing attempt to bring change to an uninformed society. “Pusher” is presented similarly to the Best Picture Oscar-winning Birdman, with the feel of one long shot cleverly divided by seamless cuts.

“Pusher” is a stripped-down acoustic number about love, loss and loneliness. Its central idea is that people are either pushers or pullers, and a successful relationship needs both — Newman sings of how he lacks,

the zest of a lemon, looking forward
Unless I have a woman pushing me

It also introduces the red-billed quelea, the most common bird in the world, which will reoccur throughout the album.

SCREAMING FEMALES – ” Hopeless “

Posted: February 27, 2015 in MUSIC
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New Jersey trio, Screaming Females return with their new, sixth record “Rose Mountain”, out 24th February via Don Giovanni Records and we’re psyched to premiere their video for “Hopeless.” Kicking off with a teetering piano line “Hopeless” hangs on singer/guitarist Marissa Paternoster’s full-bodied vocals. It starts off pared back and pristine before the scuzz-rock kicks in just before the three minute mark, a wave Paternoster rides it till the song’s succinct conclusion.

For filmmaker Lance Bangs (Sonic Youth, Odd Future, Yeah Yeah Yeahs), “Hopeless” was the album’s immediate standout track. The video itself was lit with flashlights and shot over the course of several freezing winter nights out in central New Jersey. Those blood splatters on the pickguard were 100 percent real: Paternoster apparently played in the chilly conditions till her fingers split open. And the setting? Those are definitely decommissioned McDonald’s playground structures in the background.

As for the crazy wiggles and scrawls that vibrate across the screen, Bangs had this to say about the after effect: “We did this bonkers approach of editing everything, then getting it turned into an actual 35mm negative, then we had movie prints made, then Marissa spent days obsessively scratching, bleaching, and hand animating the 5400 individual frames. After that we rescanned it all, and synched it up to the audio. To our knowledge I don’t think anyone has bothered to go through all of that hassle for a video before.”

Talk about dedication to awesome. Bangs has also been on the road with the band so keep your eyes peeled for that tour documentary coming out next week.

THEO VERNEY – ” Mountain Rose “

Posted: February 26, 2015 in MUSIC
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When Theo Verney started out, he sat atop a wall of thrash and fuzz, a relentless charge that would have done anything just to get louder, more obnoxious. But give or take a couple of years and the Brighton resident’s refined his approach. This new song ‘Mountain Rose’ is the best example yet, trading a fuzz addiction for something more restrained and devoted to rhythm. Make no mistake, this isn’t a tame beast, but it’s a showcase of Theo Verney’s nelwy-acquired know how, the best realisation yet of his charming, chugged energy. With a new EP forthcoming titled ‘Brain Disease’ EP, out soon on Marshall Teller Records. He is currently recording his debut full-length album.

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COVES – ” Shot To The Wall “

Posted: February 26, 2015 in MUSIC
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Leaminton Spa based band Coves have unveiled ‘Shot To The Wall’, the lead track from their new EP Spectrum, out on April 13th. This, their first new material since last year’s LP, “Soft Friday”, picks up where the duo left off on their beautiful and thrilling debut. Elegant, atmospheric and most definitely Coves, ‘Shot To The Wall’ casts yet another beguiling and chilling spell. Laced with scorching riffs, laden with reverb, propulsive beats and glacial atmospherics, spiked with Wood’s mellifluous, chilling cooing.

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There are plenty of bands of Coves‘ ilk currently doing the rounds – boy-girl duo, spectral vocals, ’60s psychedelic influences, dreamy synths – but few, if any, come close to Coves’  The new “EP Spectrum” will be released on April 13th, The band will be at the Nottingham Bodega on the 10th March,

BLACK HONEY – ” Madonna “

Posted: February 26, 2015 in MUSIC
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Brighton’s Black Honey aren’t really ones to do your normal run of the mill release. Releasing a new single via iTunes or Bandcamp, and other media seems just a little too obvious . Their last release, a superb four track EP could only be bought at live shows and now their latest single a double A side via Duly Noted Records featuring new tunes ‘Madonna’ and the surf infused ‘Spinning Wheel’ . This will also include exclusive Polaroids and means international fans can for the first time, get their hands on a physical copy, whilst UK fans can pre-order the CD ahead of the bands live shows. ‘Madonna’ is another example of Black Honey’s burgeoning talent which along with the likes of Wolf Alice is breathing fresh life into guitar music .

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VIET CONG – ” Continental Shelf ” and ” Death ” on World Cafe

Posted: February 13, 2015 in MUSIC
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This week’s World Cafe: Next artist, Calgary’s Viet Cong, released its full-length debut last week. It’s not so much a dark record as a harsh one: This is a guitar-intensive rock band whose songs stretch out with some sturm and drang, while still finding ways to get under your skin. Hear two songs from Viet Cong.

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