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Our final post for the year comes from Philadelphia, courtesy of Knifeplay and their For The Holidays EP. They’ve been putting out seasonal songs the last few years and have, for 2023, compiled them together along with a haunting Counting Crows cover, selling it digitally and directing all proceeds to the Broad Street Ministry, dedicated […]
As expected, Slowdive’s Fall North American tour has yielded a new in-studio session, this one recorded for Los Angeles’ legendary KCRW. In addition to the five-song set, there’s a print interview with the band about everything is alive and the cross-generational appeal of their music. Your fanbase is on par with the same demographic as […]
As mentioned, London’s deary have had quite a good year, the high point probably being a toss up between releasing quite an excellent debut EP or playing to thousands when opening for Slowdive’s UK dates. But they weren’t stopping there, instead offering fans a final holiday gift in the form of a dreamy cover of […]
Gleaming synth-pop isn’t necessarily the first thing you associate with Christmas music, but Ladytron have elected to wrap up an eventful year – one that saw them release another excellent album in Time’s Arrow as well as lose a founding member in Reuben Wu – with a new holiday tune. They describe it as: Cut […]
It’s the home stretch to the holidays, so it’s about time I get the festive fare I’ve been sitting on out into the world. We’ll start way back in 1991, when Ride, a couple months after the release of their debut album Nowhere, released a single-sided 7″ for sale at a fan club gig in […]
I’m sure it’s pure coincidence, but the day that The American Analog Set’s latest LP For Forever finally arrived – I had it on preorder from three different retailers, and none were able to fulfill for a month and a half – Numero Group finally unveiled specifics of the long-discussed box set for the Austin […]
One of the fun things about shoegaze as a genre is that being musically on the nose isn’t a detriment; in fact, for a lot of fans, it’s a plus. Phoenix, Arizona’s Glixen certainly sound like a lot of bands you’ve heard before – in fact, a lot of bands you’ve heard right here – […]
Truly this is and odd one. One one hand, it’s a complete live 80-minute Luna show and is pretty well-shot if a bit static with three fixed cameras and a great sound mix. On the other hand, seeing the band in a gazebo beside a parking lot and a row of porta potties is a […]
Anglo-American dreampop duo Still Corners have returned with details of their sixth full-length: Dream Talk, with its so very on-the-nose artwork, will be out on April 5 and has been previewed with first single “Secret World”. Frontwoman Tessa Murray describes the song as: Sometimes the thought of someone, wanting to know them, get into their […]
Is there a song more quintessentially 2002 than “Green Grass of Tunnel” by múm? Probably, but for my purposes – and given the other options – let’s say no. Sigur Rós had just recently introduced the otherworldly sounds of Iceland to the masses, and the appetite for more music of possible/probably Elfin origin was quite […]
