KCRW: The Church: Live from HQ
SOURCE Mar. 25, 2023 Australian dream-pop legends The Church bless an intimate audience at KCRW’s Annenberg Performance Studio with the first-ever American performance of new material from their 26th album, The Hypnogogue. The band’s unmistakable blend of lush atmospherics and diamond-edged rock ’n’ roll remains as intoxicating as ever. And frontman Steve Kilbey remains as audacious as ever, […]
ROLLING STONE: Queen Kwong Teases a Dirty Rat in ‘The Mourning Song’ Video
BY KORY GROW SOURCE QUEEN KWONG PERFORMS a pole dance for a dirty rat in a new video for “The Mourning Song,” a track off her recent Couples Only album. “I’ve only ever loved one man and you weren’t that guy,” she sings over deceptively gentle indie-rock guitars. “But I tried and I tried.” As she describes the breakdown of […]
BROOKLYN VEGAN: Love and Rockets announce US tour dates around Cruel World Festival
Love and Rockets are reforming to play the 2023 Cruel World Festival in Pasadena, CA and have announced a US tour after. So far it’s just West Coast shows, playing Salt Lake City, Portland and Seattle. Tickets for those shows go on sale Friday, March 17 at 10 AM local time. Fingers crossed for more dates…including East Coast. Stay tuned. […]
TEEN VOGUE: Loki’s Folly Is the Gen Z Grunge Band You Need to Be Paying Attention To
SOURCE BY LEXI MCMENAMIN FEBRUARY 23, 2023 On a below-freezing Friday night in north Minneapolis, Minnesota, a trio of close-knit siblings are clustered on one side of a booth to talk about their debut album. Loki’s Folly, based in south Minneapolis, is a band of two sisters and a brother: Annie, 21, on guitar and vocals; […]
ROLLING STONE: Yellowcard to Crank Up the Violin, Pop-Punk Nostalgia on First Tour in Six Years
SOURCE BY JON BLISTEIN GET READY TO hit the pit to the sweet tones of some electric violin: Yellowcard are returning to the road to celebrate the 20th anniversary of their 2003 album, Ocean Avenue. The pop-punk stalwarts will kick off their tour on July 5 at the Pier Six Pavilion in Baltimore, and the run will wrap on Aug. […]
BROOKLYN VEGAN: The Alarm prep new album ‘Forwards’ (watch the “Next” video), announce ‘Gathering NYC’ shows
SOURCE Bill Pearis Published: February 13, 2023 Veteran Welsh group The Alarm are gearing up to release new album Forward later this year. Frontman Mike Peters wrote the songs while in the hospital dealing with life-threatening illness: pneumonia and a serious leukemia relapse. “I literally took my guitar into the hospital with me,” Mike Says. “I was on the ward […]
BROOKLYNVEGAN: The Sisters of Mercy’s Andrew Eldritch talks US tour, System of a Down, new music & more
SOURCE Despite not having released an album since 1990 and no new music since 1993, The Sisters of Mercy are very much a current band according to frontman and founding member Andrew Eldritch. With the most stable lineup of the band in ages — Eldritch, guitarists Dylan Smith (since 2019), Ben Christo (since 2006), and Ravey Davey who is the “nurse” […]
ILLINOIS ENTERTAINER (cover): The Church: Welcome to The Hypnogogue
SOURCE The Church, 2023 (Kilbey with glasses) Sometimes, great art can become something like a snowball as it tumbles downhill after its initial creation, colliding with — then absorbing — many other diverse mediums, expressions, and even creators themselves as it goes. Take, for example, Australian author Jane Harper’s riveting mystery novel from 2016, The Dry. […]
TALKHOUSE: Philip Selway (Radiohead) Talks with Dave Rowntree (Blur) on the Talkhouse Podcast
SOURCE On this week’s Talkhouse Podcast, we’ve put together the drummers from two of the UK’s biggest bands in recent memory: Dave Rowntree and Philip Selway. Rowntree came to fame with Blur, one of the original Britpop bands of the early 1990s. I probably don’t need to give you much biography on Blur, but in the band’s […]
AV CLUB: The Church in “February Music Preview”
SOURCE Known in America for 1988’s album Starfish and the single “Under The Milky Way,” the Church’s career is far more expansive. The Hypnogogue is the this Australian band’s 26th album in 43 years, and while frontman Steve Kilbey is the lone remaining original member, their clarity of vision remains consistent. There’s a warm intimacy to this trippy, low-key […]