Neil Young compilation with covers by Sharon Van Etten, Courtney Barnett and more

We’re delight­ed to spread the word about Heart Of Gold Vol­ume 1, a com­pi­la­tion of Neil Young cov­ers per­formed by artists includ­ing The Doo­bie Broth­ers, Eddie Ved­der, Mum­ford & Sons, Sharon Van Etten, Fiona Apple, Bran­di Carlile and many more. The album is on release now. The project is by Los Ange­les-based pro­duc­tion house, Cin­e­ma Music Group (CMG) and is…

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Lael Neale dreamy new single Down on the Freeway

Indie singer-song­writer Lael Neale’s lat­est offer­ing Down on the Free­way from her upcom­ing album is a cap­ti­vat­ing and per­son­al explo­ration of Los Ange­les, accom­pa­nied by a self-direc­t­ed video that’s just as entranc­ing. Down on the Free­way cap­tures the pulse of con­tem­po­rary LA, the city Lael returned to after spend­ing three years back in rur­al Virginia…

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Ireland’s Side 4 Collective fresh new single “Me and Vincent”

Fresh, vibrant and with a youth­ful ener­gy, ‘Me & Vin­cent’ via AMS Records bursts onto the aur­al land­scape com­mand­ing to be heard. With a play­ful pos­i­tiv­i­ty, this new release is a ‘love let­ter to the urban and sub­ur­ban com­mu­ni­ties of Dublin’.  Side 4 col­lec­tive is spear­head­ed by Irish drum­mer Dave Hinger­ty who has record­ed with renowned artists…

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Magnetic Skies unveil new single and shows

Syn­th­pop, dark­wave band Mag­net­ic Skies have been work­ing on a new sin­gle for spring. A Place on Earth is released on Fri­day 4th April and there are two upcom­ing shows. The sin­gle fea­tures Mag­net­ic Skies’ sig­na­ture vin­tage synth sound over­laid with vocal­ist Simon Ken­t’s dra­mat­ic and doomy vocals. There’s also a strik­ing mono­chro­mat­ic video – below.…

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Review: Seattle band Great Grandpa new album Patience, Moonbeam

Five-piece Seat­tle band Great Grand­pa may not be a house­hold name in the UK but hope­ful­ly their next album out 28th March called Patience, Moon­beam, on Run For Cov­er records, will help rem­e­dy that. Great Grand­pa are a reward­ing band to lis­ten to. That’s part­ly down to Alex Men­ne’s warm, coun­try-lean­ing vocals that ani­mate the…

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Terry Bickers and The Inner Spiral gigs and new music

Ter­ry Bick­ers, leg­endary founder mem­ber and gui­tarist of House of Love fame has announced three inti­mate shows and there’s new music – under wraps for now – to come too. The orig­i­nal band’s phe­nom­e­nal first album House of Love in 1990 still sounds as fresh now as it did on its release – tracks like Shine…

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Mien (Black Angels and Elephant Stone) tour UK

Psych Krautrock band Mien – mem­bers include Black Angels Alex Maas and Rishi Dhir of Ele­phant Stone – is return­ing to tour the UK in May, and we could­n’t be more excit­ed. Mien mem­ber Rishi Dhir is lead vocal­ist plus gui­tar and sitar play­er with his oth­er band Ele­phant Stone who have toured the UK…

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New song by Marianne Faithfull plus RSD release

Sen­ti­ment around the new 4‑track EP by Mar­i­anne Faith­full called Burn­ing Moon­light is cap­tured by Mar­i­an­ne’s son, Nick Dun­bar. He says, “As we grieve the loss of Mar­i­anne, we are pleased to announce the release of these songs which she worked on dur­ing the year before her death. Mar­i­anne lived to cre­ate and per­form music…

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Constellations For The Lonely by Doves

By some weird chance, the first time I heard Rene­gade, I was step­ping off the tram and cross­ing the sad waste­land of Pic­cadil­ly Gar­dens to meet a friend in the North­ern Quar­ter. Omi­nous, thun­dery synths and an echoey piano note fade to Jim­i’s famil­iar vocals describ­ing a bleak and tor­tured land­scape, both emo­tion­al­ly and physically.…

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Choses Sauvages release new single Cours Tourjours

We’ve become fans of French-Cana­di­an band Choses Sauvages with their upbeat brand of dance-punk. Their sin­gle called ‘En joue’ caught our atten­tion last year. Now a new track just released called Cours Tou­jours offers anoth­er glimpse into the Fran­coph­o­ne band’s sound. There’s a touch of Steely Dan to the open­ing notes before the track breaks…

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