SPIRITS HAVING FUN DROP TITLE TRACK FROM DEBUT
Chicago art pop/math rock outfit Spirits Having Fun have followed up their excellent debut single, Electricity Explorer’ with the similarly idea rich, compositionally complex and genre dense ‘Auto-Portrait’, the title track from their forthcoming debut album. Spiky as it is punchy and chaotic as it is composed, there’s definitely a hint of the legendary outfit […]
NEW INDEPENDENT POP/ROCK – AN INDIE30 PLAYLIST UPDATE
Melbourne outfit Monnone Alone, the project led by former Lucksmiths bassist and the founder of respected Australian independent music label The Lost & Lonesome Recording Co. Mark Monnone, kicks off our current update of our New Independent Pop Rock Playlist on Spotify with the breezy warmth of ‘Feeling Together Feels Alright’. Their fine new album […]
NEW & NOTABLE: TRUTH CLUB (USA) – NOT AN EXIT
Raleigh post punk outfit Truth Club have released their superb debut album Not An Exit. It’s a short and snappy affair clocking in at under a half an hour and therein lies its strength. Lean and insistent, sparse yet at times raucous, its a reflective debut full of insightful observations and mathematical left turns. In […]
NEW INDEPENDENT POP/ROCK – AN INDIE30 PLAYLIST UPDATE
So chuffed to be sharing this unbelievably strong spotify playlist of 30 brand new independently released pop/rock tracks with our readers today. Every couple of weeks or so we share an update of each one of our seven New Music playlists giving the artists the recognition and respect they deserve. The new tracks have been […]
NEW INDEPENDENT POP/ROCK – AN INDIE30 PLAYLIST UPDATE
Our current Independent Pop/Rock Playlist on Spotify is front-ended with some superb new releases by female artists in honour of International Women’s Day. We begin with the Swiss artist Tanya Barany and the opening track ‘In Retrospect’ from her melodically glacial new album Lights Disappear. Melbourne singer songwriter Angie McMahon follows with her deliberative rock […]
NEW INDEPENDENT POP/ROCK – AN INDIE30 PLAYLIST USING SPOTIFY
Former Hüsker Dü frontman Bob Mould has released some 14 solo albums since that band’s acrimonious demise in the last 1980s. Sunshine Rock is his twelfth under his own name and Side Two track ‘Irrational Poison’ leads of our New Independent Pop/Rock playlist using Spotify as it stands today. Mould is followed by Charleston quintet Susto […]
ENDLESS WHITE DEBUT FLOW WEST TO YOU
A couple of weeks back Xi’an dream pop/shoegaze outfit Endless White released their tellingly titled gem of a debut album Flow West To You. The Shaanxi quartet consist of vocalist/guitarist Zhang Wanyi and lead guitarist Ren Yuxuan ably backed by the sinewy bass lines of Li Yifan and the languidly inventive drums from Chen Xujan. The melodic […]
THE DISTRICTS SHARE NEW TRACK, VIOLET
After sharing two previous singles, ‘Ordinary Day’ and ‘If Before I Wake’ from their forthcoming album Popular Manipulations, The Districts now share a third which is arguably the best of them. The scorchingly epic, ‘Violet’, is a tale on the largely unconscious manipulation of ideas that mark the irrationality of love. Listen to its power […]
OMNI ANNOUNCE MULTI-TASK, DROP NEW SINGLE
Atlanta trio Omni just dropped this blissfully angular new single, ‘Equestrian’ off their upcoming new album, Multi-Task. The announcement of the record comes just short of a year after their fabulous debut Deluxe and will be out September 22 on Trouble In Mind. How do you multi-task manic and the laid back? Find out below […]
DEERHOOF ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM, RELEASE AWESOME, DEFIANT FIRST SINGLE
“Sleep at night, if you can stay alive. Stay alive, if you can sleep at night.” Lyric excerpt from ‘I Will Spite Survive’. “In this world of tyrants and CEOs seemingly hellbent on achieving the termination of our species, perhaps the most rebellious thing we could do is not die. Should we survive the global […]