Plague Vendor have announced their new album By Night, produced by John Congleton (St Vincent, Sharon Van Etten, Chelsea Wolfe) and recorded at legendary EastWest Studios (Brian Wilson, Ozzy Osbourne, Iggy Pop).
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In celebration of Marvin Gaye’s 80th birthday on April 2, Motown/UMe will release his never-issued 1972 Tamla/Motown album, You’re The Man, in 2LP gatefold vinyl and digital editions on March 29. You’re The Man features all of Gaye’s solo and non-soundtrack recordings from 1972, with most of the album’s tracks making their vinyl release debuts.
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Wasuremono have announced their new album ‘Are You OK?’ will be released on June 14th. They have also shared the title track from the album after teasing the news with previous single ‘Lonely Type’.
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Chicago Based art rock band Muet have announced their debut self-titled album. The band features Steven Seibold, Daniel Evans and Vince McAley, who have all served time in post-industrial bands such as Pigface, Chemlab, Die Warzau and Hate Dept.
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On May 23rd, an “avant-garde Eurovision” called EuroNoize will be taking place at London’s Scala. A celebration of the obscure, the niche and the uncategorizable, music that runs deeper than national borders.
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The Membranes finally follow up their critically acclaimed universe-explaining 2015 album ‘Dark Matter/Dark Energy,’ which received rave reviews and radio play on BBC 6 Music and became the bestselling album in the band’s history.
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The Leeds-formed three-piece Drahla have announced their highly-anticipated debut album ‘Useless Coordinates’ will be released via Captured Tracks on May 3rd 2019.
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Jarmo Saari is a musician from Finland. A recipient of The Finland Prize, he can be heard on more than 100 albums, has appeared live in concert in over thirty countries and also enjoys a career writing and performing film scores and music for contemporary dance. He plays guitar, theremin, viola da gamba, trombone, glass harp and also sings, and has been praised for his multi-layered sound collages and having a “cinematic compositional style”.
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Liily, a crew of teenagers hailing from the San Fernando Valley, have premiered the title track from their debut EP I Can Fool Anybody In This Town at CLASH. Featured as Track of The Day, they said it is, “A taut, finely poised piece of guitar music, Liily have a dynamic that is all their own, matching angular songwriting to sheer relentless desire.”
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Nick Waterhouse, a fine purveyor of classic rhythm and blues, jazz and soul, has a new self-titled album out today via Innovative Leisure. The album has received praise from the likes of Mojo, Uncut and Shindig!
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Icelandic/Russian Psychedelic duo (take a deep breath, that was a lot), Pale Moon, share their debut single “Exile.” The track is the first to be released off the band’s upcoming EP, Dust of Days, expected April 5th, 2019.
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Last year, the rising singer unveiled her debut record, the dark, pulsing Where I Go To Disappear, ahead of her tour with Peter, Bjorn & John. Now, she’s partnered with MXDWN to share her cryptic video for standout “American Psycho”, a perfect distillation of the murky electronica she specializes in.
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Hidden Things is the first in a trilogy of singles by Hannah Sanders & Ben Savage. After widely touring for the past few years 2019’s singles reflect the duo’s relationship to the spirit of the place; all three songs were written and arranged in different counties whilst they were touring their critically acclaimed album Awake in 2018.
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Fresh off announcing his new EP ‘Way Out,’ Oakland experimental indie musician Nathan Salman aka Waterstrider has released the second single titled “Breed.” The piece is a flourishing, ethereal expression of hope translated through Salman’s angelic vocal performance. After a year fraught with fires that threatened his Northern California home and an infection that left him in the ER, Waterstrider has turned his personal turmoil into triumph. Salman is primed to release his new EP, The Way Out, on June 28th, 2019 via 30th Century Records.
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Norwegian punks The Modern Times are sharing their new single Am I Losing Touch. Coming on with the propulsive energy of Parquet Courts, the sharp-as-a-tack nous of Gang of Four, and the effervescent spirit of The Hives, Am I Losing Touch is a hybrid of jangly and jagged post-punk, snotty punk rock and garage-infused power pop.
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Field Medic, the moniker of Los Angeles-based folk artist Kevin Patrick, has just released new single ‘used 2 be a romantic’ from his forthcoming album ‘fade into the dawn’ that will be released on April 19th via Run For Cover Records.
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Having released some of the most exciting jazz releases in recent years (Theon Cross, Binker and Moses, Thelonious Monk, Sarathy Korwar + more) Gearbox Records have now announced that they have signed a deal with legendary South African pianist and composer, Abdullah Ibrahim.
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Rumours of Fleetwood Mac, the world’s finest tribute to Fleetwood Mac, returns to the stage in 2019 with its ‘Anniversary Tour’, a brand new show celebrating 50 years of the very best of Fleetwood Mac, including a very special blues set paying tribute to Fleetwood Mac’s legendary Peter Green era.
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NYC’s Charly Bliss have shared a video for “Chatroom” the second single from their highly anticipated new album, Young Enough.
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NYC author/writer/actor Larry “Ratso” Sloman has collaborated with some of the most dynamic figures in pop culture from Bob Dylan, Lou Reed, John Cale and Leonard Cohen. Ratso also wrote the best-selling memoirs for Howard Stern, Anthony Kiedis and more. Now at 70, Ratso is set to release his debut LP ‘Stubborn Heart’ out 5th April on Lucky Number.
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Best known for her recordings with the likes of Snarky Puppy and Moby, Shayna Steele truly takes flight on her third solo album, ‘Watch Me Fly’, on which eight self-penned originals and two very different classic covers showcase her soulful, powerful energy and mind-blowing vocal artistry.
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The Hold Steady are releasing their first new song of 2019. “The Last Time She Talked To Me” arrives at all DSPs and streaming services via Frenchkiss Records on Friday, March 8.
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Buke and Gase will be touring in the UK and Ireland commencing in Manchester on the 4th of March. Buke & Gase released a new album “Scholars”, their first in almost 6 years, earlier this year to wide-ranging acclaim.
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Norway’s newest power-punks Wet Dreams have revealed a brand new single today called ‘Radioactivity’, the final taster of their debut self-titled album which is due for release on March 29th via Black Pop Records.
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The album name comes from a line in Dr. John’s “Walk on Guilded Splinters” where Steve misheard John’s actual phrase “Tit Alberta” as “Till I Burn Up.” But more than fodder for an album title, John’s Gris Gris, and records like it informed a new frame-of-mind for an artist who has historically set out to make a predetermined statement with every recording.
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