Monthly Archives: January 2016

Welcome to the world of VŌDŪN. A crushing weight of heavy psychedelic soul poised to heave its debut album Possession upon the world through Riff Rock Records this coming March 25th.

Produced by the Brit-nominated Tom Dalgety, Possession is devoted to understanding the magnificent and complex past of Vodun cosmology – an ancient West African religion that VŌDŪN channel into the spell-binding sounds that take hold throughout Possession’s intense 11-track voyage.

Classic Rock are streaming the lead track ‘Legbas Feast’ here.

Pre-order Possession here: http://cargorecordsdirect.co.uk/products/vodun-possession

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Liverpool’s MUGSTAR announce the release of their latest and most weighty sonic onslaught to date, Magnetic Seasons, the new double-album, due for release via Rock Action Records (Mogwai, Blanck Mass, Part Chimp, Envy etc) from March 4th 2016.

Stream the first cut ‘Flemish Weave’ on Team Rock.

Magnetic Seasons sees MUGSTAR shifting through a whole range of newfound sonic gears. Recorded at Liverpool’s Whitewood Studios, the band approached the Magnetic Seasons sessions in an extended and open manner. Allowing time and space to experiment, improvising and feeling their way through playing, this free approach and method of working resulted in an extended body of material; nine intense and atmospheric soundscapes moving across an expansive and distinct four sides of vinyl.

Pre-order Magnetic Seasons here: http://shop.rockactionrecords.co.uk/.

2016 will see Mugstar play the following UK dates with a full EU tour soon to be announced.

Live Dates
26th February, London, Electrowerkz
1st April, Brighton, Green Door Store
27th-29th May, London, Raw Power Festival

Rising Brighton trio Gang have shared a new music video for ‘Breath Before Death’, the AA-side to their new 7” ‘Animalia’ / ‘Breath Before Death’ out now on Corner Shop Pop Records. Watch it on DIY.

Diving behind the scenes of a recent DIY photoshoot, Gang’s Eric Tormey explains, “Chris Wade (Dogbrain Videos) tagged along with us when we shot our recent photos with our friend Carina Kehlet. He documented the shoot, and decided to make a music video out of it. We didn’t realise it was going to be used at the time, so it’s probably the most candid footage you’ll ever see of us.

I think it was originally intended to be like one of those early 2000s MTV specials, crossed with Made In Chelsea. Instead it’s kind of like 1970s erotic horror, which is strange considering we were just being ourselves. Maybe we give off that vibe.”

Catch Gang live on their headline tour through this month, including dates with Birdskulls at London’s Strongrooms and Dilly Dally at Brighton’s Green Door Store.

January Tour Dates
20 Leeds, Nation Of Shopkeepers
21 Manchester, The Castle
22 Birmingham, Sunflower Lounge
23 Margate, Tom Thumb Theatre
24 Folkestone, Hot Salvation (Acoustic Instore)
26 London, Strongrooms w/ Birdskulls, Johnny Foreigner
27 Brighton, Green Door Store w/ Dilly Dally & Tigercub

Buy the single direct from Corner Shop Pop here.

Enter Shikari reveal their mighty new single ‘Redshift’ today with a UK arena tour to follow in February.

Almost twelve months after the release of their fourth UK Top 10 album, ‘The Mindsweep’ – which went onto win Independent Album Of The Year at the 2015 AIM Awards and scoring highly in many end-of-year polls – plus two months since the release of companion album ‘The Mindsweep: Hospitalised’, Enter Shikari are streaming the new music video for ‘Redshift’ on YouTube.

‘Redshift’ arrives ahead of the band’s most ambitious UK tour; bigger rooms than they have headlined in before, utilising quadrophonic sound for the first time in their live career, and their largest production to date. Support comes from The Wonder Years and the freshly-reformed original line-up of The King Blues.

The full dates are as follows:

FEBRUARY – UK.
THUR 18 – GLASGOW – O2 Academy
FRI 19 – EDINBURGH – Corn Exchange
SAT 20 – NOTTINGHAM – Motorpoint Arena
MON 22 – BOURNEMOUTH – International Center
TUES 23 – CARDIFF – Motorpoint Arena
THUR 25 – MANCHESTER – Victoria Warehouse
SAT 27 – LONDON – Alexandra Palace

For tickets and details visit www.entershikari.com/shows.

Glasgow’s Holy Esque reveal the beautiful ‘Tear’ exclusively on Best Fit today. “A perfect storm of pain and beauty“, ‘Tear’ will be released on limited edition 7” and also features on the band’s forthcoming debut album At Hope’s Ravine, released February 26th via Beyond The Frequency. Pre-order the album here.

Stream ‘Tear’ here and buy tickets for the forthcoming tour dates here.

Tour Dates
February
29 – Rough Trade, Nottingham (in-store)

March
1 – Rough Trade East, London (in-store)
2 – Rise, Bristol (in-store)

April
6 – The Underground, Plymouth
7 – Mono, Falmouth
8 – Carriers, Bude
10 – Moles, Bath
13 – Soup Kitchen, Manchester
14 – Liverpool Arts Club, Liverpool
15 – The Sugarmill, Stoke on Trent
16 – Sunflower Lounge, Birmingham
20 – Lexington, London
22 – Esquires, Bedford
23 – Lennon’s, Southampton
24 – The Boileroom, Guildford
25 – The Portland Arms, Cambridge
27 – The Cookie, Leicester
28 – The Bodega, Nottingham
29 – Picture House Social, Sheffield

May

1 – Think Tank?, Newcastle
7 – Art School, Glasgow
19-21 – The Great Escape, Brighton

Portland, Oregon based indie rock icons The Dandy Warhols return this week with a brand new song ‘You Are Killing Me’, their first new music since the release of the ‘This Machine’ album in 2012.

The band can also announce that they have now signed to Dine Alone Records. Founded in 2005 in St. Catherines, Canada, Dine Alone Records (also home to bands such as Trail Of Dead, Alexisonfire, BRONCHO, Fidlar and many more) is an independent label based out of Toronto, Nashville and Los Angeles.

‘You Are Killing Me’ will be available on iTunes, Spotify and all digital retailers. Direct pre-order here.

Seattle punk trio So Pitted are set to release their debut album neo via Sub Pop this February 19th and have revealed a brand new track from the album, ‘feed me’, exclusively at DIY

“The group deal in strange abstractions on their first work, employing dark, chugged guitar lines and vocals that sound like they’ve been zapped in a mad scientist’s lab. Capable of hypnotising and exploding in one fell swoop, they bring something different to the table. Case in point – ‘Feed Me’.” Check it out here.

Currently on through through the US supporting label-mates METZ and Nashville punks Bully, So Pitted will land on UK shores this March as part of a full EU tour.

Check out the band’s live performance of ‘rot in hell’, filmed at The Echo in Los Angeles for Red Bull Sound Select’s 30 Days in LA Festival, on Pitchfork TV.

Tour Dates (* w/ METZ + Bully)

January
8 Brooklyn, NY – Palisades
9 Boston – The Sinclair *
11 Washington, D.C. – Rock & Roll Hotel *
12 Philadelphia, PA – First Unitarian Church *

March
4 Paris, FR – Mecanique Ondulatoire
5 Amsterdam, NL – Butcher’s Tears
7 London – The Shacklewell Arms
8 Leeds – Brudenell Games Room
9 Brighton – The Green Door Store
10 Lille, FR – La Peniche
11 Brussells, BE – Homepluged
12 Berlin, DE – West Germany
15 – 20 Austin, TX – SXSW