Dead Kennedys
Dead Kennedys’ classic 1980 album Fresh Fruit For Rotting Vegetables has been remixed from the original multitrack tapes by Chris Lord-Alge (Chaka Khan, Green Day, Bruce Springsteen). The band’s debut album (original release date: September 2, 1980) is politically incendiary while also wholly musically adept – provocative and often idiosyncratic agit prop lyrics bouncing off […]
Dave Rowntree
Blur drummer Dave Rowntree is very pleased to share his first solo single, “London Bridge.” The track is streaming now via Cooking Vinyl and produced with Leo Abrahams (Wild Beasts, Brian Eno, Ghostpoet). It heralds the start of an exciting new project for Rowntree, over three decades since Blur formed back in 1989. “London Bridge” is an enticing opening statement. Deceptively bright and […]
R.E.M. “Chronic Town”
THE 40th ANNIVERSARY OF CHRONIC TOWN Available For The First Time As A Standalone CD via I.R.S. / UMe With Extensive Liner Notes By Producer MITCH EASTER Also Available In Picture Disc And Cassette Editions LOS ANGELES – JUNE 28, 2022 — Celebrating its 40th anniversary this year, R.E.M.’s debut EP CHRONIC TOWN will be released for the […]
Alicia Blue
It’s difficult to pin down exact musical influences on Alicia Blue’s Inner Child Work—and that’s exactly how the California singer-songwriter likes it. Although her folk roots are never far from the surface, the album encompasses dreamy indie-rock (“Dog Days in L.A.”), delicate pop meditations (“Saline Waters”), ’90s alternative rock (“Dirty Hippie”), and even Tori Amos-esque […]
Dead Can Dance
Since their inception in Melbourne in 1981, Dead Can Dance have been informed by folk traditions from all over Europe, not just solely in terms of instrumentation, but also by secular, religious and spiritual practices. The story to their forthcoming album Dionysus took shape as Brendan Perry became fascinated by long established spring and harvest […]
Neurotic Outsiders
STEVE JONES (guitar/vocals) JOHN TAYLOR (bass/vocals) DUFF McKAGAN (guitar/vocals) MATT SORUM (drums) STEVE JONES, JOHN TAYLOR, DUFF McKAGAN and MATT SORUM have never been afraid to confront their demons–and as they’ve proven in their respective work with the Sex Pistols, Duran Duran and Guns N’ Roses, they don’t like losing. They may come from […]
Fabulous
Few bands’ reputations precede them as much as 1990s British band FABULOUS. Much like the Sex Pistols a dozen years before them, Fabulous’ media headlines back then often included the words “Vandals,” “Banned,” and “Riots.” Banned by nearly every venue of their debut UK tour, they featured heavily in NME, i-D, The Face, The Wire, Select, and Melody Maker even though they […]
She Wants Revenge
She Wants Revenge, the dark-alternative duo who first exploded onto the scene with 2005’s evergreen hit and dance floor classic, “Tear You Apart”, have reformed after a two-and-a-half-year split, with tour dates, a new lineup, and their first album in over 10 years. For childhood friends Justin Warfield and Adam Bravin, She Wants Revenge […]
Steven Dayvid McKellar
NAMA, by Steven Dayvid McKellar, finds the artist at play in his Southern California flat as a global pandemic rages outside the window. While others were moving out, McKellar left Nashville and moved in with the expressed intention of experiencing La La Land in peak, postapocalyptic distress — a fitting metaphor for a record implicitly […]
Gogol Bordello
“Solidaritine is the substance that unlocks our empathy and our full human potential. I suppose it’s a brother of Adrenaline… or, at least, it rhymes with it. So turn your Adrenaline into Solidaritine and let’s go! May this be your punky uplift for our packed with troubled times.” – Eugene Hutz, Gogol Bordello * […]