A benefit compilation for strike funds and artists! Proceeds will go towards ongoing strikes and unionization efforts as well as the contributing artists.
May 1, 2022
Mall Girl • Close My Eyes (Live at Studio Paradiso) • 2022
Today, Norwegian math pop four-piece Mall Girl have released their debut album Superstar via Jansen Records. To mark the release, the band has shared a brand new live video for album track 'Close My Eyes', recorded at Studio Paradiso in Oslo where they recorded the album.
“Whatever direction they choose to follow, there is a real feeling that Mall Girl are a band at the beginning of something.” The Quietus
“There's a raw and spontaneous energy that belies the intricacy and disparate influences that went into creating it, with fizzy, playful touches skittering throughout.” The Line Of Best Fit
"For fans of Deerhoof or Life Without Buildings, the Norwegian art-pop band offer a dreamy, crunchy assessment of the delights of laying on the beach and looking at the stars." The Guardian
“An unrelenting math-pop earworm” Under The Radar
Apr 29, 2022
Let's Eat Grandma • Two Ribbons • 2022
Three years ago, Let’s Eat Grandma were hit with unimaginable tragedy. The Norwich-based experimental pop duo – comprised of childhood pals Rosa Walton and Jenny Hollingworth – lost the latter’s boyfriend, the 22-year-old rising musician Billy Clayton, to a rare form of bone cancer.
Apr 28, 2022
QUASI QUI • Epoch • 2022
Today, Quasi Qui, the new alt-pop project from Yehan Jehan and his sister Zadi, have shared new single ‘Epoch’ via microqlima records (Isaac Delusion, L’Impératrice, Pepite, Fils Cara). Following on from their debut single ‘Gentle Squeeze’, which earnt the band early support from BBC Radio 6 Music and BBC Radio 1, ‘Epoch’ is a groove-laden, synth-pop ode to starting afresh.
Crystal Eyes • The Sweetness Restored • 2022
The opening line of The Sweetness Restored, the second full-length release from Canadian indie shoegaze/dream pop band Crystal Eyes, displays a kind of wistful self-awareness right from the start. Described by the band as a 'feel-good self-help record for the age of existential dread,' The Sweetness Restored is a collection of 10 tracks that flirt with musical influences ranging from new wave, 60's psych-rock and 90's shoegaze, with songs driven by melody and steeped in texture.
Apr 27, 2022
Apr 26, 2022
Jaguero • Sunday • 2022
The four friends came up with the name "Jaguero" during a night of partying, a crazy union between a wild animal and a soccer player. They immediately fell in love with the idea, imagining "Jaguero" as a lucha-libre wrestler, who spends his life between obscurity and glory.
The four come from disparate experiences: Slander (Matteo Marangoni), La Fortuna (Andrea Cichellero's solo project) and Regarde (Guido Dal Prà and Andrea Campesato Segnini). In this EP they mix the reference sounds of their various artistic paths as well as their own varied musical tastes.
Apr 25, 2022
Tom Jenkins • Magic Mushroom Island • 2022
Following his recent signing to Xtra Mile Recordings, ex-Straight Lines frontman Tom Jenkins has unveiled an anthemic new single that veers towards fresh sonic territory.
Straying slightly from his acoustic folk-tinged roots, “Magic Mushroom Island” is an exhilarating new cut with larger-than-life instrumentals and an exultant earworm chorus. Building to an electric crescendo with roiling riffs and a colossal guitar breakdown that nods to the legendary works of Led Zeppelin, Jenkins is also joined at the track’s climax by esteemed Motorhead guitarist Phil Campbell.
Straying slightly from his acoustic folk-tinged roots, “Magic Mushroom Island” is an exhilarating new cut with larger-than-life instrumentals and an exultant earworm chorus. Building to an electric crescendo with roiling riffs and a colossal guitar breakdown that nods to the legendary works of Led Zeppelin, Jenkins is also joined at the track’s climax by esteemed Motorhead guitarist Phil Campbell.
Apr 22, 2022
English Teacher • Polyawkward • 2022
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“The fierce and magnetic draw of a future punk great” NME
“Leeds post-punkers with an eye for a cutting one-liner” DIY
“One of the very best new bands around” Dork
“They could be your new favourite band” The Line Of Best Fit
“A decidedly cool emerging punk band” So Young Magazine
Los Saints • Fouund You Somewhere • 2022
"Los Saints don’t mess around on their new single “Fouund You Somewhere”: Some scratchy chords right out of the Strokes playbook, then — bam — the Chula Vista-bred trio launches into a chorus the feels like you’ve just taken off over the deep blue seas west of San Diego International Airport."- Buzzbands
“Don’t let the longing and regret behind the lyrics fool you — the guitar-led track glitters with optimistic tones.”- Alternative Press
"Los Saints are your next indie obsession...reminiscent of veteran indie-rockers The Strokes. Perfect to play on a late-night drive."- The Honey Pop
Apr 21, 2022
Hashimoto • That Would Be You • 2022
You will always be
A true fighter for the sea
You help us understand
What we need to help the land
The coolest person ever
To sit on a St-Viateur terrace
That would be you, always you
The groovy shades
The clothes you made
The smile that feels like Saturday
It killed me every time
It killed me every time
You pronounced B-u-t-t-o-n-s
I miss it
One time we got to be
Music Circle King and Queen
We sang Daniel Lanois’ Stormy Sky
I hold that memory tight
I hold that memory high
Who’s that on the bike?
A damn cool rock star
Korg in the basket
You’re a star of Mile End
Fighter for the planet
You’re its excellent friend
It’s a certainty
You will always be
The coolest person on St-Viateur
That would be you
Always you
Alex G • End Song | We're All Going to the World's Fair • 2022
Both creepy and cozy, the Pennsylvania singer-songwriter’s original score amplifies the melancholic beauty that hovers at the edges of director Jane Schoenbrun’s deeply online horror.
Apr 20, 2022
Slow Down Molasses - Street Haunting | Vator Sessions
“Noise-rocking Saskatoon neo-shoegazers find corroded melodies in the wreckage of a rock anthem”
MOJO
“A happy medium between delay-shimmer histrionics and the cinematic haze of Slowdive”
Q MAGAZINE
“Fusing shoegaze tapestries to a post-punk framework”
CLASH MUSIC
Green Sky Accident • Screams At Night • 2022
Screams at night is the name of Green Sky Accident's last single before their new album Daytime TV is released the 20th of May on Apollon Records. The lyrics deal with being stuck in a dead end job which is slowly sucking the joy out of your life. Contrasting this melancholia is a big lively production: Drums with heaps of reverb, guitars with a bite to them and a vocal line that consists of a choir of voices. We hope this song might inspire you to quit your job and say "sayonara blood suckers!"
Green Sky Accident from Bergen - Norway plays indierock with lots of energy,
catchy riffs and a whole lotta love. A good melody is essential for every song, the arrangements are always built around those. Their music can be compared to the indie heroes of the nineties, jangly and noisy, sweet while still packing a punch.
Apr 19, 2022
Burn The Louvre • Alison (feat. Stephanie Deshane) • 2022
"Alison" is a fun indie pop duet featuring singer/songwriter Stephanie Deshane. It's about that person who comes into your life and leaves very suddenly, but I'd like to think that a girl like "Alison" always leaves on a positive note. The moral of the story is that just because an interaction or relationship might be temporary, that doesn't mean that it can't be meaningful.
Apr 17, 2022
Louvre Doors • Sometimes It Starts Again • 2022
TO THOSE WONDERFUL PEOPLE OUT THERE IN THE DARK...
A collection of songs for the dreamers, the romantics, and the nostalgia-stricken, featuring down-tuned acoustic guitars, double-tracked vocals, analogue toy keyboards, harpsichords borrowed from the lighter side of yé-yé. Soundtrack your afternoon walks or your bus rides home. Inspired by confessional singer-songwriters and Nouvelle Vague maestros Georges Delerue and Michel Legrand. But, above all, indebted to the exquisite kindness and hope underlying the films of Agnès Varda and Jacques Demy.
"Le souvenir du bonheur, c'est peut-être encore le bonheur"
Apr 8, 2022
Orville Peck • The Curse of the Blackened Eye • 2022
“This is my most impassioned and authentic album to date,” Peck remarked in a statement. “I was inspired by country rock, ’60s & ’70s psychedelic, California, and even bluegrass with everything being anchored in country. Bronco is all about being unrestrained and the culmination of a year of touring, writing in isolation and going through and ultimately emerging from a challenging personal time.” PF
Apr 7, 2022
Wet Leg • Ur Mum • 2022
When I think about what you've become
I feel sorry for your mum
You say we're all having fun
Do you know you're the only one?
And when the lights go down on this fucking town
I know it's time to go
And when the radio plays and the static stays
Yeah, I know it's time to go
I get up
To go now
I give up
Up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up, up
On you now
I don't want you to want me
I need you to forget me
Yeah, I loved you, that was crazy
'Cause you just don't motivate me
Apr 6, 2022
Dana Gavanski • I Kiss The Night • 2022
Taken from her forthcoming album When It Comes which is out on April 29 through Flemish Eye, Dana Gavanski has today shared the video for the opening track on the LP, "I Kiss The Night". The video, directed by Gaia Alari, is made up of 1,700 hand-drawn frames, around 12 drawings per second, creating a beautiful stop motion animation that fits the music perfectly.
"Gavanski sounds at peace, her voice pushing past its limitations to reach a sing-song quality that feels transcendent rather than childish"
– The FADER
“Spending time in Gavanski's world is a breath of fresh air, and we're glad she's let us in again.”
– CBC Music (12 albums you need to hear)
“Lithe baroque pop that distills fuzzied feelings of nostalgia”
– FLOOD
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