Pillow Queens have released a new single called "Suffer".Not long after the Irish rock band Pillow Queens released their first album at the end of 2020, we named them a Band To Watch. And not too long after that debut, they came out with their sophomore album, Leave The Light On, last year. Today, they’re back with a new single called “Suffer.” “We wrote it in the depths of winter at our […]
The quartet’s second act is a giant leap forward into broad and playful new sonic waters.“The main reason that ‘post-punk’ was the vehicle for album one was because it was really affordable to do, but we always liked so much other music and this time we've had the confidence to embrace it,” james explains. across the record, influences ranging from fela kuti to ennio moricone via spiller’s ‘00s pop smash […]
Amy Britton reviews Fortune Teller, the new single from YOBS, to find a high energy burst of garage rock complete with visually arresting video It doesn’t come much more exciting, full-throttle or attention grabbing than Liverpool’s YOBS, and new single release Fortune Teller very much reinforces this. Ahead of a debut full-length album release next year, and off the back of dome acclaimed live shows supporting the likes of fellow […]
Not content with having already put out two albums this year, Hipbone Slim & The Kneejerks return with a dose of wild garage rock on their new EP. Whether it’s under the moniker of Sir Bald Diddley, playing with the Kneetremblers or, like on this year’s double album release, the Kneejerks, Mark Painter is a man on a mission to keep the garage rock train a-rumbling, returning again, this time on […]
The Cincinnati synth-punk trio dials up the energy on a zippy new album. Cincinnati’s the Serfs share significant lineup overlap with the Drin, the gnarled and scuzzy post-punk/garage-rock band whose January LP Today My Friend You Drunk The Venom was one of winter’s most pleasant surprises (if you can say such a thing about a band whose default mode tends to be ugly). Now it’s the Serfs’ turn in the spotlight. Friday, […]
John Dwyer and Osees continue on their interminable exploration of their gonzo-garage synth-punk minds on new album Intercepted Message. The 27th OSEES album is their most synthheavy yet, but those Blurt-like grooves are still in place and the songwriting is still tight as a gnat’s chuff on a record that in typical Osees style ranges all over the shop from new wave to skronk to punk to disco. INTERCEPTED MESSAGE […]
Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince dive into their new album, God Games Garage rock duo The Kills drop by to catch up with Kyle Meredith about their latest album, God Games, and more. Alison Mosshart and Jamie Hince talk through the challenges they put in place for themselves — including picking up instruments they had never played before — when working on this new LP, as well as the magic they find in naiveté. They […]
Crime & the City Solution - the killer Crime return with their sixth studio album, and first in 10 years. Out now. the killer by Crime & the City Solution
Failed States/Creative Resistances is the name of the new triple set of vinyl compilations on Belfast, Banda Aceh and Kosovo punk scene. The project was done by Jim Donaghey and was part of his research in Ulster University. Don’t let the academic part deceive you! It is far from a conventional academic frame that approaches its subject with sterile eyes. Jim led the project in a real punk attitude and […]
The eight-track record explores the latent potential in trance to evoke, beyond euphoria, the fullest feeling of the sublime. 01. on embers 02. yxguden (ft. bladee) 03. the beach 04. nobody else 05. silence 06. xkyrgios 07. with me (ft. merely) 08. run boys run Revanchist by Evian Christ source: warp.net
