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BLACK MARBLE RETURNS BIGGER THAN LIFE

Minimal synth artist Chris Stewart aka Black Marble has announced the release date for his new album Bigger Than Life. It will emerge in October on his new label Sacred Bones and comes a full three years after the excellent It’s Immaterial, which placed #7 in our top albums list in 2016. The first single […]

NEW POST PUNK, WAVE, SHOEGAZE & POST ROCK – AN INDEPENDENT MUSIC PLAYLIST BY INDIE30

We begin this update with Melbourne post-rock+ outfit Laedj.  A great rework of an old track ‘Heard From Space’ comes off their new four track release Monitor. Irish artist Sinead O’Brien‘s cerebrally angular new single is called ‘Taken On Time’. Read about that here. The super catchy ’80s Men’ is from New Orleans  Bummers from […]

NEW INDEPENDENT POSTPUNK WAVE SHOEGAZE & POST ROCK – AN INDIE30 PLAYLIST UPDATE

The Post Rock genre has been sadly neglected where this playlist is concerned and over the last few days we’ve made a concerted effort to try and rectify that. That begins with the stylistically diffuse ‘Lifelooper®’ by Paris outfit Lost In Kiev whose new album Persona will appear April 26 on Pelagic Records. Kælen Mikla […]

NEW VIDEO: AUTOMELODI (CAN) – LES MÉTROS DISPARUS

Automelodi, the synthwave project coalescing around Montreal artist Xavier Paradis is soon set to release Mirages au futur verre​-​brisé, the long awaited full length follow up to 2013’s Surlendemains Acides. Last week its second single ‘Les Métros Disparus’, featuring a surreal trance like vocal performance from Xeno & Oaklander‘s* Liz Wendelbo, scored a retro-futuristic long […]

NEW INDEPENDENT POST-PUNK SHOEGAZE POST-ROCK & WAVE – AN INDIE30 PLAYLIST UPDATE

We begin this month’s update of our New Independent Post-Punk Shoegaze Post Rock & Cold, Dark & Synthwave Playlist using Spotify with both tracks, ‘Landlords’ and ‘4chan’, from the new 7″ single from socially conscious Londoners The Cool Greenhouse. All profits from the release go to the London Renters Union, “a member-led, campaigning union standing […]

V DROPS THE DARKWAVE INSPIRED SO PURE

Melbourne based darkwave artist V has released her long awaited second record So Pure, a full seven years after delivering her self titled debut way back in 2012. A project born a decade ago in the now defunct Berlin-Mitte squat of Tacheles, her experiences as a multi-disciplinary artist as part of the underground across Europe […]