Iggy Pop has teamed up with Kill Bill guitar hero Hotei for a new single Walking Through The Night. A dark tale of a stroll through the seamier side of Tokyo, it’s the latest cut from Hotei’s first international album Strangers, out now on Spinefarm Records. Iggy, who also worked with the Japanese on How The Cookie Crumbles, says the song is about ‘feeling alone, sexually […]
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Happy Robots boss and one time Peel’s Festive 50 fave Rodney Cromwell releases a new 5-track EP on November 11. The Fax Message Breakup EP follows Cromwell’s well-received debut album Age of Anxiety and features exclusive remixes of album cuts Happy Robot and Cassiopeia.
A dream-like and at times nightmarish ride, Kristin Hersh’s new album is an extraordinarily multi-layered work that’s tough to de-code. It’s a wilfully oblique mosaic of half-realised memories of past events and emotions.
Thirty years on from the release of the first Throwing Muses EP Chains Changed Kristin Hersh is showing no signs of slowing down. Just six months after the release of the Bath White mini-album with power trio 50FOOTWAVE, she’s back with a new solo 24-track double CD on which she plays all the instruments.
Frank Turner and The Sleeping Souls drummer Nigel Powell is moving centre stage to tour the latest album by his Sad Song Co. solo project. Multi-instrumentalist Powell, who’s also sticksman with Oxford’s Dive Dive, will be showcasing SSC’s upcoming album in amber. Recorded in just five days, with the aid of Radiohead engineer Graeme Stuart and producer George Shilling of My Bloody Valentine fame, in […]
New albums by Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds are always an event but the release of Skeleton Tree comes with more baggage than most. For those who don’t know the sad story by now, recording was savagely interrupted by the tragic death of Cave’s son Arthur in a cliff fall near the family’s home in Brighton. The fraught recording process […]
TIRELESS London post-punkers Leika are hoping to build on their growing live reputation with a new studio album due out in October.
She spent six years with fiercely independent trance drone masters Stereolab, having been given just a month to learn the keyboard parts to 30 of their songs. Now 21 years on Morgane Lhote is a fully-fledged solo artist, recording under the name Hologram Teen and planning the release of her debut album.
A genre-defying collage of electro beats, distorted guitar, jaw’s harp and seductive almost spoken-word vocals, it’s fair to say Bold Ego Fledgling is not your average single release.
Taking their name from a rather forthright way of telling someone to shut up, transatlantic duo STFU have forged a fittingly uncompromising sound on debut album What We Want. Despite being literally an ocean apart during the recording process, producer Dean Garcia and vocalist Preston Maddox, of noise-rockers The Bloody Knives, have created a homogenous, dystopian behemoth of a record.