It’s A Beautiful Place, the new full-length from Water From Your Eyes out August 22, opens with zero-gravity instrumental ‘One Small Step’ – a fitting prelude for what is one giant leap for the New York duo. The album is a gleaming megalopolis: a satellite view of eras and musical forms, a reframing of the […]
A great concert by the Basie band recorded ‘LIVE’ in the summer of 1956 . The rhythm section, with the great Freddie Green, Eddie Jones and Sonny Payne is the ultimate basic of the band, and, of course, the key man here is The Count himself. All musicians at the top of their games, the […]
It was four years into the swim ~ label’s history before Bastard arrived. Like my previous albums, it was another collaboration – although this time only with my partner in life and crime, Malka Spigel. There was a point in the ’90s when British music journalists basically didn’t get dance music and would refer to […]
Classic live performance from Simple Minds. Includes: Waterfront, Belfast Child, Someone Somewhere (In Summertime), Alive And Kicking, Big Sleep and more!In 1991, Simple Minds returned with Real Life. The album reached No. 2 in the UK, where it also spawned four Top 40 singles. The band toured to support the release, playing as a basic […]
Classic live performance from Simple Minds. Includes: Don’t You (Forget About Me), Love Song, Stand By Love and more!In 1991, Simple Minds returned with Real Life. The album reached No. 2 in the UK, where it also spawned four Top 40 singles. The band toured to support the release, playing as a basic five-piece (Jim […]
The Moonlandingz are back with their second album ‘No Rocket Required’ with ‘Give Me More’ on Monday 24th of February. The track is the second offering from the album, which is due April 25th via Transgressive Records. The Moonlandingz have finally returned – not when we wanted them but now that we need them – […]
As a founding member of Dublin experimental folk group Lankum, Ian Lynch explores submerged leylines of music and song. Forging a musical path that is all at once dark, mysterious and foreboding, but ultimately transcendental. His new solo project One Leg One Eye sees him taking a fresh approach to musical arrangement culminating in a […]
CD/LP/digital-only ^CD/CS/digital-only Description: The science-fiction visionary Octavia Butler once declared that “there is nothing new under the sun, but there are new suns.” The aphorism could apply to any art form where the basic contours are fixed, but the appetite for innovation remains infinite. Enter Clipping, flash fiction genre masters in a hip-hop world firmly […]
“Jello Biafra and Ministry teamed up for this slab of wax.The title track is great.Imagine Ministry playing thrash, that’s what it is.‘Hellfudge’ sounds like Flipper meets Jerry Lee Lewis, the lyrics take a nice roundhouse power swing at Jimmy Swaggart.‘Time To Melt’ is a cool dirge / death rock type of song, but it’s too […]
Look to the East, Look to the West, the new album by Camera Obscura, is a revelation. The Tracyanne Campbell-led outfit, reuniting with producer Jari Haapalainen (Let’s Get Out of This Country, My Maudlin Career), have crafted an album that simultaneously recalls why longtime fans have ferociously loved them for decades while also being their […]
