Finch are no more. Again. In their place two new bands have emerged. Former frontman Nate Barcalow is in Private Lives, who have just fully funded their debut album on PledgeMusic, while Alex Linares, Alex Pappas and Daniel Wonacott have joined up with Buddy Nielsen of Senses Fail in Speak the Truth.
Read moreEldstad have come out of nowhere for me. I stumbled across the band’s emotional, immersive new album ‘Hamnstad, Hemstad’ and fell in love within 30 seconds. And then over the next 25 minutes I couldn’t do anything else but listen. And then, when the record stopped spinning, I just wanted to start it up again. A contender for album of […]
Read moreGreat news. It appears mysterious Swedish post-everything outfit Suffocate For Fuck Sake have returned. It’s been over eight years since the band released their exceptional lone album (If you don’t know, you do now), long enough for many to consider them defunct, but earlier today the band took control over their Facebook, released a new song and announced a record […]
Read moreAmerican Football have been back for a while now- the seminal emo outfit reunited in 2014 after a 15-year hiatus to play a few festivals and finish a few tours- but it was never clear just how long they intended to stick around. All of a sudden though, there’s more, there’s new music. ‘I’ve Been So Lost For So Long’ […]
Read moreOld faithful. Mr reliable. Comfort music. It might not blow the bloody doors off but ‘Get Right’, the debut single from Jimmy Eat World’s as yet untitled ninth (!) album, is more of the same steady-handed sweetness you’ve come to expect from rock’s most reliable outfit.
Read moreHevy Fest is no more. In a statement released yesterday the organisers cancelled this year’s festival and cast doubt on any future events under the same name. There’s plenty of time for a more detailed postmortem but the combination of a crowded festival market and a lack of true identity had set Hevy on rocky ground for a few years […]
Read moreThere will be no Supersonic Festival in 2016. The experimental music weekender that has hosted acts as varied as Q And Not U, Venetian Snares, Melt Banana and Merzbow for over a decade now will take a break this year, although with every intention of returning in 2017. Lisa Meyer, one of the directors of Capsule, the company that stages […]
Read moreThis is ‘Prayers/Triangles’ from the band’s new album, ‘Gore’, due out via Reprise in April. Big vibes on this one. I genuinely don’t know how they manage to sound like no one else, only themselves.
Read moreSour news. Former Sense Field, Further Seems Forever and Reason To Believe vocalist Jon Bunch has died at the ridiculously young age of 45. Tributes have appeared online from around the music world including notes from Sick Of It All, Jimmy Eat World and Hayley Williams of Paramore. Williams tweeted “Rest in peace… Your voice sang me to sleep many […]
Read moreThis feels like it has been a long time coming. Explosions in the Sky have announced that their new album, their first since 2011’s ‘Take Care…’, will be out via Temporary Residence on April 1st. It will be called ‘The Wilderness’, and the existence of artwork and a tracklisting (both below) pretty much guarantees this isn’t an April Fools. Right? […]
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