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Dreamy shoegaze band Gingham have found a way to update Alan Sillitoe 's classic short story The Loneliness of the Long-Distance Runner for indie kids of all ages with their new single Cross Country . Let's face it, most people dread outdoor sports if they are organised by an overzealous PE teacher. It is much more fun to indulge in a bit of daydreaming in stead having to deal with a body…
Watch pop parodist 'Weird Al' Yankovic perform four songs, for a NPR Tiny Desk Concert . Things got a little crowded, because he brought along Jim "Kimo" West (guitar, background vocals) ,Steve Jay (bass, background vocals), Jon "Burmuda" Schwartz (drums), Chad Thomas (keys), Payton Rose Velligan (guitar, background vocals), Monique Donnelly (tambourine, background vocals), Scheila Gonzalez (alto…
Manchester-based band T.R. Burge & The Temple peddle the kind of Gothic folk that will sound familiar to fans of DeVotchKa. They recorded the basic tracks from their forthcoming album Godache in thier hometown, before setting up shop at Klangbild Studios in Berlin, and the German love for the classics spilt over to their new single This Bird is Flown , with a prominent role for Aninka Rosa 's…
London-based progressive power-punk trio Alien Chicks have used their righteous anger about rightwing nutjobs and other dictators for their new intense single Madmen . "Democracy does not exist anymore" was a line that nobody expected to become true, but it becomes more real each day. Madmen is released via Alcopop! Records . It is the lead single for the Toys Taken At Birth EP, which will be…
American folk rocker Ben Crum has unveiled a video for Fear of the Fear , the title track from the new album by his band Great Lakes on which he is trying to get to grips with the death of his close friend Ryan Trammel. He is not haunted by demons on this one, but the feeling of "being haunted by twenty hounds" is scary enough. It is a rambling rocker with a purpose: to find some kind of closure…
NYC-based composer and guitarist Jon Madof has been mixing genres for decades to create his own sound. Traditional Jewish music, surf, jazz, rock, metal, punk and avant-garde are thrown together on Netzach , the new album with his Jon Madof Trio . It is aseamless jigsaw puzzle that will have listeners scratching their heads about what they are being exposed to. Is it a soundtrack for a Western, a…
Swiss neo-psych band Dear Misses teamed up with singer Belinda Villforth who also wrote the lyrics for their dreamy single Lost Mind In Beauty . It is a love song about emotional turmoil, built upon the premise that you have to go to a lot of shit to feel better, but it does not end well. "Feeling full of cockroaches in my head" is bad news. The dream is a nightmare after all. Lost Mind In Beauty…
Swiss instrumental post-rockers hubris. found some solace in the works of Tolkien, wherein elves considers mortality as a plus. The band's songwriter Jonathan Hohl was rattled by his grandfather’s passing. Their new single Is is the second taste from their new album White Shores , due for release on September 10 - the six tracks are lined up as continuation: Death. Is. Just. Another. Path (the…
Vancouver punk rockers The Get Arounds keep it simple: write a rock hook, add power pop-tinged vocals about halfway The Shirts and Blondie plus the attitude of The Runaways, and make the back beat utterly danceable. With a recipe like that their new album Going Out Tonight is a basically a collection of singles, whose subject matter is all about everyday hassles like driving a bit too fast,…
Toronto psych-punkers Wine Lips inserted a few breaks into their If You Don’t Know , serving as stop-and-think markers for the lyrics which deal with the fact that getting older happens so much faster than one might think. Yesterday you were 16 and anything was possible, today not so much. Screaming at the heavens won't change that, but it helps just a bit. If You Don’t Know is released via Stomp…
