New Orleans no-wave punks Special Interest are sharing ‘Foul’ a new track from their upcoming album Endure, out Friday, November 4th, 2022. “This call and response tune is a working class anthem,” Special Interest’s guitarist Maria Elena explains of ‘Foul’. “Alli and I co-wrote the lyrics and sing it together with Ruth adding a classic line – foul! Ever so foul. It’s a dispatch from the dish pit! An ode to all beleaguered workers! Minimum balance savings account blues!” Purchase / Stream...
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Ireland’s Gilla Band are sharing a new track and video, ‘Post Ryan’ today off their upcoming album Most Normal, out October 7, 2022 on Rough Trade Records. ‘Post Ryan’ was directed by Michael Speed and follows earlier singles ‘Backwash’ and ‘Eight Fivers’, which were accompanied by videos directed and animated by Mortis Studios. ‘Post Ryan’ is the album’s electrifying closer, in which the beat has been taken from ‘I Ran’ by Flock of Seagulls, the band quote saying “We thought, that’s a really great, immediate pop-sounding beat, let’s start there and go somewhere else’ –to have that immediacy, and then abstract...
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Jockstrap (Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye) release their hotly-anticipated debut full-length record I Love You Jennifer B. Last week, Jockstrap released a documentary by Rosie Marks on the orchestral recording session they did for the new record. Watch below! Featuring amazing behind the scenes content, the four-minute piece demonstrates the musical prowess and dedication to detail and complexity that have earned the duo well-deserved worldwide hype as the next big thing. Additionally, last Friday they released a sample...
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New Orleans no-wave punks Special Interest announced that they will release Endure, their third album and Rough Trade Records debut, on Friday, November 4th, 2022. The announcement was accompanied by lead single ‘Midnight Legend’ featuring iconic rapper, performance artist, poet and activist Mykki Blanco, and complete with a stunning music video directed by Special Interest vocalist Alli Logout. ‘Midnight Legend’ is described by Special Interest front person Alli Logout as “a love...
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Ireland’s Gilla Band release new single ‘Backwash’, taken off their upcoming album Most Normal, out October 7. Watch the video directed and animated by Mortis Studios below! Singer Dara Kiely shares “We didn’t really stick to the brief but it lead us down different sonic avenues. ‘Backwash’ is one of the few tracks where the words represent a dream-like circumstance. The track is about attraction – fancying someone and not knowing what to say exactly. It’s an indirect love...
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black midi’s long anticipated album Hellfire is out now! The album includes their new single ‘Sugar/tzu’ released alongside a music video directed by Noel Paul, watch below! ‘Sugar/Tzu’ centres on a futuristic boxing match wherein one of the contenders is assassinated by a young boy. It features the core band plus horns by Kaidi Akinnibi (sax), Joe Bristow (trombone) and Ife Ogunjobi (trumpet), and the voice of boxing announcer Hus...
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Gilla band announce their new album Most Normal, to be released on October 7th. It will be available on limited edition blue vinyl and an exclusive alt cover white vinyl, limited to 1,000 copies. Pre-order here. First single ‘Eight Fivers’ announces itself in that typical Gilla Band way where the lyrics often feel abstracted from the music. Dara Kiely’s voice is two opposing forces at once. In some ways it’s...
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Special Interest share ‘Follow Me’, the B-side to their debut Rough Trade single, ‘(Herman’s) House’. Lauded New Orleans 4-piece Special Interest breathe new life into a late 70s disco classic from arts & culture icon Amanda Lear. Equally as euphoric as the original, mixed by Collin Dupuis, lush production, sparkling synths & heavy bass are buoyed by gorgeous glam crooning from Alli Logout, who exchanges Lear’s deadpan delivery, instead imbuing her witty...
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Much hyped London-based eight piece caroline share a live video for their song ‘IWR’, recorded at Trafo in Jena, Germany this April. Watch below! “After we finished playing at Trafo in Jena in April, they asked if we wanted to quickly record a live version of one of our songs before packing down our gear,” caroline explain of how the new video for ‘IWR’ came to be. “Trafco is an...
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black midi – the UK-based trio of Geordie Greep (guitar, vocals), Cameron Picton (bass, vocals) and Morgan Simpson (drums) – present a new single ‘Eat Men Eat’ from their upcoming album Hellfire, out July 15th. Watch its accompanying video, directed by Maxim Kelly below! Musically, ‘Eat Men Eat’ is a fusion of Rock and Flamenco, the latter being the working title found on early setlists. The lyrics, written by Picton, tell the story of a couple’s quest to overcome...
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To mark its 20th anniversary, The Libertines’ era-defining debut ‘What A Waster’ is being re-pressed on seven-inch single (backed by original b-side I Get Along), while the new What A Waster Live From The ICA EP will be made available on streaming services. This digital only edition features live versions recorded during the band’s legendary show at the iconic venue just up the road from Buckingham Palace on the original day of release, 3rd June 2002. Part calling...
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SOAK, aka singer-songwriter Bridie Monds-Watson, releases their new album If I Never Know You Like This Again. Alongside the release comes the lyric video and an intimate acoustic version for the final single from the record, ‘Swear Jar’. Watch below! ‘Swear Jar’ deals with depression and the breakdown of a relationship. “I felt so disconnected from myself and life that I was starting to question if I’d ever truly been present or if I’d always been...
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New Orleans no-wave punks Special Interest are sharing their first music on Rough Trade Records, a dynamic new track called ‘(Herman’s) House’ which comes with a video directed by Special Interest vocalist Alli Logout. Watch below! Special Interest is a four piece punk band emerging from New Orleans, Louisiana. Combining elements of No-Wave, Glam and Industrial, they create a frenetic and urgent revisioning of punk and electronic music for a modern world gone mad. Propulsive analogue drum machines, a swirling layer...
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black midi – the UK-based trio of Geordie Greep (guitar, vocals), Cameron Picton (bass, vocals) and Morgan Simpson (drums) – announce their third album, Hellfire, out July 15th on Rough Trade. In conjunction with the announcement, they share the album’s lead single/video, ‘Welcome To Hell.’ Written in isolation in London after the release of last year’s Cavalcade, Hellfire builds on the melodic and harmonic elements of its predecessor, while expanding the brutality and intensity of their debut, Schlagenheim. As Greep describes it: “if Cavalcade was a drama, ‘Hellfire’ is...
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Sleaford Mods have released a brand new EP, Live At Nottz. Recorded live at Nottingham Arena in 2021 during their biggest show ever, it features six fiery, transformative tracks and includes guest appearances from Billy Nomates and Amyl and the Sniffers’ Amy Taylor. Additionally, Sleaford Mods are sharing three electrifying live videos from the performance for ‘Nudge It’, ‘Mork n Mindy’ and ‘Tied Up in Nottz’. Watch below! If the legends are true, the first ever Sleaford Mods gig took place at a cafe near Nottingham...
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London-based duo Jockstrap (Georgia Ellery and Taylor Skye) have shared their brand new single and video ‘Concrete Over Water’; another hint at a still-to-come TBA debut full-length record on their new label home Rough Trade / Remote Control. ‘Concrete Over Water’ received its first national airplay from Lauren Laverne on her BBC Radio 6 Music Breakfast show. Watch the video below! Commenting on the new single – which comes complete with hugely inventive and ambitious storytelling visuals, directed by the band themselves...
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