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AUSTIN PSYCH FEST Announces 2024 Lineup With Courtney Barnett, Kurt Vile, Alvvays & More
by Michael Major - December 13, 2023 Austin Psych Fest has announced its 2024 lineup, featuring artists like Courtney Barnett, Kurt Vile, Alvvays, The Black Angels, Chicano Batman, Witch (J Mascis), Blondshell, Earthless, and more. Austin Psych Fest brings the old school vibe of the original event back outdoors and under the stars and ... 
Upchuck Release 'Crashing' Single Off New Album 'Bite the Hand That Feeds'
by Michael Major - September 26, 2023 Upchuck's Bite the Hand That Feeds is passionately impressionistic, following the reflections of a charmingly unreliable narrator as frontwoman KT clocks the shortcomings of the world around her. Its heaviest moments are counteracted by bursts of goofy levity, injecting natural breaths of fresh air ... 
Upchuck Release 'Freedoom' Single Ahead of Tour With Faye Webster
by Michael Major - September 14, 2023 Atlanta’s Upchuck have unleashed their immediate and defiant new single, “Freedoom”. “Freedoom” pounces with a sense of youthful hunger that convincingly drags the post-’68 fever-pitch spirit of The Rolling Stones’ “Street Fighting Man” into the 21st century.... 
Advertisement Share New Single 'Where Is My Baby?'
by Michael Major - August 29, 2023 The single comes alongside a mischievous video created by the band and director Kyle Mangione-Smith. They reconvened in Los Angeles during the summer of 2022 to record, enlisting the help of engineer Mike Kriebel (Osees, Ty Segall, Mild High Club), who tracked and mixed the record.... 
Sydney Smashers C.O.F.F.I.N Release New Single 'Factory Man' Ahead of New Album 'Australia Stops'
by Michael Major - August 24, 2023 Having just announced a mammoth Australian and American tour for October and November in support of their forthcoming album ‘Australia Stops’, released September 15th via Bad Vibrations in Europe, Sydney smashers C.O.F.F.I.N offer us another taste of the album this week in new single ‘Factory Man’.... 
Flat Worms Share New Single 'Sigalert'
by Michael Major - August 23, 2023 Flat Worms announced their new LP, Witness Marks, which is coming out on Ty Segall's Drag City imprint GOD?, with their first single, 'Time Warp In Exile' late last month. Their second single, “Suburban Swans,” was a punchy, grinding post-punk track about our perceptions of reality, free will, and M... 
Frankie and the Witch Fingers Share Seven-Minute Single 'Empire'
by Michael Major - August 16, 2023 Los Angeles psych-punk quartet Frankie and the Witch Fingers have shared new track “Empire” alongside an official video. The final preview from the upcoming record, “Empire” kicks off the album with seven minutes of pure energy and apocalyptically intense lyrics. The accompanying video perfectly cap... 
Allah-Las Drop Their Newest Single 'Sky Club'
by Michael Major - August 16, 2023 Instead of bringing finished songs to the studio, they entered the picturesque Panoramic House recording in Stinson Beach with sketches, ideas, and riffs. Working with co-producer Jeremy Harris (White Fence, Devendra Banhart, Ty Segall) they shaped and crafted the new songs in real time over three s... 
Video: Allah-Las Share Video for New Track 'Right On Time'
by Michael Major - July 19, 2023 The video is another tease of the band’s forthcoming new album Zuma 85 which will be released via the band’s own label, Calico Discos, in partnership with Innovative Leisure, which released earlier defining statements from the band including the eponymously named Allah-Las (2012) and Worship The Sun... 
Advertisement Share 'Victory' Single From Upcoming 'Escorts' Album
by Michael Major - July 13, 2023 On Escorts, Advertisement provides a convincing argument for rock’s continued ability to reflect the maddening incoherency of the world around us. Moving with a cadence which is at once both tragic and lighthearted, melancholic and laughable, Advertisement confront the delirium of modern life and tw... 
Frankie and the Witch Fingers Share New Single 'Futurephobic'
by Michael Major - July 12, 2023 Los Angeles psych-punk quartet Frankie and the Witch Fingers have shared new track “Futurephobic” alongside an official video. Through six progressively expansive albums, innumerable live dates on an ever-expanding list of continents, and performances with the likes of Thee Oh Sees, Ty Segall, Cheap... 
Australian Rockers C.O.F.F.I.N to Release New Album 'Australia Stops'
by Michael Major - July 10, 2023 Sydney Northern Beaches' C.O.F.F.I.N will release their fifth full-length studio album entitled 'Australia Stops', the new album comes off the back of the band’s tour with Amyl and the Sniffers in 2022, and their recent UK tour dates this May where C.O.F.F.I.N stunned audiences with the high-intensi... 
Allah-Las Drop Two New Singles From Next Album & Tour Dates
by Michael Major - June 13, 2023 The glammy and electronic strut “The Stuff” signals the start of a new era for Allah-Las, and finds the band reinventing itself in defiance of the algorithmic categorization and robotic sterility. Showing another side of the album the instrumental “Zuma 85” features field recordings with chimes that... 
Ron Gallo Debuts 'BIG TRUCK ENERGY'
by Michael Major - February 27, 2023 Lead by delicate strings and a post-punk attitude, this never rings more true than on latest single “BIG TRUCK ENERGY” released. Perhaps Gallo’s most direct and potentially uncomfortable song, it speaks to a variety of political, social and environmental issues we've all become pretty familiar with ... 
GONERFEST Returns For Year 20 With Initial Lineup
by Michael Major - February 13, 2023 Highlights include a number of acts coming from overseas, including performances by UK artists Chubby & the Gang and Vivron Vavron, Australian bands CIVIC, Dippers, 1-800-Mikey, TV Repairmann, Vintage Crop and C.O.F.F.I.N., Denmark’s The Courettes, Japan’s The Smog, and Lewsberg from the Netherlands... 
Ron Gallo Unveils 'YUCCA VALLEY MARSHALLS' Single
by Michael Major - December 15, 2022 Ron Gallo has released 'YUCCA VALLEY MARSHALLS' the latest single off his blistering, brand new studio album, FOREGROUND MUSIC. With the new song, Gallo reflects on a solo west coast trip. After roaming around Los Angeles by himself, he found that LA can be the loneliest place on the planet if you a... 
The CIA (Denée & Ty Segall, Emmett Kelly) Release 'Inhale Exhale' Single
by Michael Major - December 06, 2022 Their forthcoming album, Surgery Channel, is ripe with straightforward conviction. The trio made up of Denée & Ty Segall and Emmett Kelly have constructed a world where everything is piercing and pinpointed. Every word brings confrontation – The C.I.A. make you question what could be happening here…... 
Ron Gallo Announces New Album 'FOREGROUND MUSIC'
by Michael Major - November 15, 2022 Over the course of 11 songs, Gallo displays what Ann Powers once called “literate electricity.” It moves from fuzz to lounge jazz to freaky pop to post-punk and back again to rollicking, truly FUN rock music, all the while taking aim at any and everything.... 
Frankie and the Witch Fingers Announce Winter 2023 Headline U.S. Tour Dates
by Michael Major - November 07, 2022 Los Angeles psych-rock juggernauts Frankie and the Witch Fingers have announced a run of Winter 2023 headline tour dates, which will take them all over California and the Pacific Northwest. These new shows will pick up in the new year, shortly after their first headline tour of Australia which begin... 
Bangladeshi-American Artist Nadu Releases New Single 'Good To Me'
by Michael Major - October 20, 2022 Mastered by Sarah Register (The Shins, Dodos, Big Thief), the album spans genres of alternative indie, indie pop, jazz fusion, post punk and surf rock with lots of synths and is influenced by artists such as Japanese Breakfast, Snail Mail, King Krule, The Heavy to Soccer Mommy. Watch the new music v... 
The C.I.A. (Denée & Ty Segall, Emmett Kelly) Announce New Album
by Michael Major - October 20, 2022 Step into a sick rhythm. Surgery Channel is a constructed world where everything is piercing and pinpointed. Every word brings confrontation – The C.I.A. make you question what could be happening here…or what they’re after. Denée Segall (vocals, lyrics) is both haunting and seducing us at once with ... 
Ron Gallo Shares New Single 'ANYTHING BUT THIS'
by Michael Major - October 11, 2022 Out now is the new gritty, fuzzed-out track “ANYTHING BUT THIS” by Philadelphia garage-rock provocateur Ron Gallo. Chock-full of distortion and sharp, electric passion, Gallo cries out against the glum atmosphere of Philadelphia (and America at large) that this song was motivated by. Watch the offic... 
WET LEG Share Previously Unreleased Track from Abortion Access Benefit Compilation
by Michael Major - October 06, 2022 The compilation also features songs from artists that include Amanda Shires x Jason Isbell, Bobby Weir & Wolf Bros, Cat Power, Daniel Rossen, David Byrne x Devo, Death Cab for Cutie, Fleet Foxes, Gia Margaret, Grouplove, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, Mac DeMarco, Maya Hawke, Overcoats, Pearl Jam... 
Alanis Morissette, My Morning Jacket & Giovannie and the Hired Guns Line Up Cassette-Only Releases for RSD Black Friday
by Michael Major - September 14, 2022 Alanis Morissette’ Such Pretty Forks in the Road and Giovannie and the Hired Guns’ Bad Habits will make their debut on cassette, along with My Morning Jacket’s much beloved Holiday offering, My Morning Jacket Does Xmas Fiasco Style. The releases will be available at participating indie record stores... 
Mother Sun Share 'Orange Colossus' Single
by Michael Major - August 25, 2022 On 'Orange Colossus,' 'Mother Sun skip-hop from garage rock jagged edges to swirling string arrangements and back again like Ty Segall sitting in with ELO, or King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard after downing a gallon of lemonade,' wrote storied music journalist Lior Phillips of the band's newest sin... |
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