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Despite being perfectly timed to do so, I didn’t really participate in the initial wave of hype around the mid-aughts UK post-punk revival, and it remains one of my music blogger regrets because I would come to really love some of those records, not least among them the first Bloc Party record, 2004’s Silent Radar; […]
Brooklyn’s DIIV announced their fourth album Frog In Boiling Water – first since 2019’s Deceiver – last week with the chilled-out dirge “Brown Paper Bag”, but they first previewed the new record way back in October while in the midst of their tour supporting Depeche Mode. They dropped the website soul-net.co, a Geocities-saluting doomscrolling eyesore, […]
After stepping away from music for a long time post-Lush, Miki Berenyi has been making up for lost time. There was the short-lived Lush reunion in 2015, followed by new music with Piroshka in the form of two albums – Brickbat in 2019 and Love Drips and Gathers in 2021. But since embarking on book […]
London shoegazers Whitelands released Night-Bound Eyes Are Blind To The Day last week and while expectations were high for their debut full-length, it’s fair to say that they fully delivered save for one complaint – at just eight tracks and 33 minutes, it’s far too short, and that six of the eight track were already […]
I’d meant to make some sort of mention of Killing Joke guitarist Geordie Walker’s passing since he died back in November, but just didn’t get to it until Adrian at Anyone Can Play Guitar posted his own lesson/tribute last month… and even then, it’s taken me weeks to get it done. As one of the […]
I’m not sure how big the demographic is, but Curve fans with money burning a hole in their pocket are certainly being catered to in the next few weeks. Firstly, archival label Music On Vinyl, who have been targeting analog completists by releasing all of the band’s singles and EPs on wax over the past […]
Considering that it feels like an entire tier of the indie band touring circuit has been hollowed out by the harshness of post-pandemic economics, it’s gratifying to see that some smaller bands are still willing to pile into a van and traverse the continent – if not the world – to try and build their […]
Ride were not kidding when they said their new album Interplay would be a tribute of sorts to the New Wave sounds they grew up on but consciously kept out of their music till now. The second preview of the record, which comes out on March 29, wears the Modern English and New Order pins […]
Happy Valentine’s Day! Warpaint are celebrating their 20th anniversary as a band with this new song, being released as a 7″ – available now – and with an accompanying video that condenses the glitz and glamour of two decades spent on the road spreading gorgeous dreampop across the world down into four minutes. They describe […]
Last year, The Cure managed the remarkable feat of staging a world tour in support of an album that hadn’t been and still hasn’t been released. It wrapped in South America with an itinerary that included headlining slots at four Primavera Sound festivals, including Buenos Aires, Argentina in late November and São Paolo, Brazil in […]
