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ROYAL BLOOD – Nasty New Sledgehammer Track ‘HOOK, LINE & SINKER’…

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Glorious British noisemakers ROYAL BLOOD launched a second track, titled HOOK, LINE & SINKER from the upcoming new album ‘How Did We Get So Dark?’. The LP will be out 16 June, all details here. The new cut is a vicious sledgehammer. It’s al about high-voltage intensity, but this machine gun duo also knows perfectly how to turn a red-hot knockout into a bloody-catchy-thunder-stroke. Get your headbanging skills ready for this amazingly robust and metallic uppercut…

ROYAL BLOOD: Website – Facebook


Artwork new album – out 16 June

COURTNEY BARNETT – New Jingle Jangle Track To Boil Eggs To…

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The wonderful COURTNEY BARNETT recorded a new track as part of the Split Singles Club series, a collaboration between Barnett’s own Milk! Records and Bedroom Suck Records. The cool Australian singer/songwriter revealed that: “Technically, it’s an old song. I used to perform it at all the open mics when I was 21. It never got recorded, so for personal-posterity
I updated it and made this version recently when I was bunkered up in the bush doin’ some demos for my next album. In tradition of the Milk! Records compilation releases, I wanted to include a song of mine for Split Singles Club that was a tad left of album-centre. So it’s a songwriting experiment that doesn’t really belong anywhere else.”

Here’s the catchy jingle jangle swagger…

COURTNEY BARNETT: Website – Facebook

THE BLACK ANGELS – Share New Ace Track/Video ‘I’D KILL FOR HER’ From New Album…

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Texan psychedelic collective THE BLACK ANGELS will launch their fifth album DEATH SONG on 21 April via their new label Partisan Records. In a statement on the label’s website the band gives more info on the new record: “Written and recorded in large part during the recent election cycle, the music on Death Song serves as part protest, part emotional catharsis in a climate dominated by division, anxiety and unease.” After sharing first roller coaster single Currency a few weeks ago, here’s a second track. I’D KILL FOR HER is a haunting song about love leading to violence, pushed by a hypnotizing, recurring riff
and injected with a sticky chorus. Here’s the accompanying, remarkable video clip…

THE BLACK ANGELS: Website – Facebook


‘Death Song’ album out 21 April…

BLONDIE – New Feel Good Track ‘LONG TIME’ Confirms Their Relevant Comeback…

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Icon Debbie Harry and BLONDIE are back! The veteran pop punks will release brand new – their eleventh – album POLLINATOR on 5 May featuring a long and impressive guest list with Dev Hynes, Johnny Marr, Laurie Anderson, Charli XCX, Sia, Joan Jett, TV on the Radio’s Dave Sitek and The Strokes’ Nick Valensi. The band already shared two elevating dance crackers, Fun and Monster, from the new LP, proving their comeback is absolutely relevant. And, now, after hearing third new track LONG TIME I even have to admit that their return will be a blessing. Long Time is a feel good rainbow, catchy as hell, brilliantly arranged and richly composed. Blondie will soundtrack many parties this summer… again. Pop gold!

BLONDIE: Website – Facebook – Twitter


New album ‘Pollinator’ – out 5 May…

FIRST AID KIT – New Hard Kicking Single In Honor Of International Women’s Day.

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Swedish folk rockers FIRST AID KIT released their new single YOU ARE THE PROBLEM HERE today – 8 March – in honor of International Women’s Day. A song in which the
duo attack and condemn men who commit rape and sexual assault. A hard kicking, bold and justified outburst, full of anger. The band shared this statement explaining the track:

“Today is the International Women’s Day and the theme of the year is #BeBoldForChange.
‘You Are the Problem Here’ isn’t a typical First Aid Kit-song. It’s angry and direct. It’s a song written out of despair. After reading about yet another rape case where the perpetrator was handed a sentence which did not at all reflect the severity of his crime we felt upset and vengeful. We were, and are, sick of living in a society where the victims of rape are often
blamed for the horrible thing that has been done to them. Our message is clear and should
not be controversial in the least: if you rape, you are the problem. Alcohol is not the problem.
So called ‘youth culture’ is not the problem. You are. And you always have a choice.”

Here’s the audio clip…

FIRST AID KIT: Website – Facebook

ULRIKA SPACEK – Here’s Their New Psychedelic Jam ‘MIMI PRETEND’ From Upcoming Album…

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After releasing their excellent debut longplayer ‘The Album Paranoia’ about one year
ago psychedelic adventurers ULRIKA SPACEK – formed one night in Berlin and based in London – have already finished their second LP titled MODERN ENGLISH DECORATION.
It will be out on 2nd June. All details here. It’s again recorded, produced and mixed in their shared London house – a former art gallery called ‘KEN’, named after a cryptic inscription found above the front door. Here’s the very first track MIMI PRETEND. A magnetizing trip build around a repetitive, haunting riff that will creep slowly but surely under your skin…

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Antwerp 2016… (photos: Turn Up The Volume!)

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THE DANDY WARHOLS – Here’s Their Brand New High-Voltage Garage Knock-Out…

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‘Thick Girls Knock Me Out (Richard Starkey) by THE DANDY WARHOLS

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After last year’s vintage grooves filled album DISTORTLAND the Portland chill out psych rockers THE DANDY WARHOLS return with smashing new track THICK GIRLS KNOCK ME OUT (RICHARD STARKEY). Wham holy bam! It’s a smoking, highly amplified banger from start to finish, sounding like recorded live in one take somewhere in an abandoned studio with authentic equipment from the sixties resulting in a stupendous and glorious garage rocker. I still haven’t figure out what Ringo Starr is doing in there as I’m too busy to bang my head while playing this nasty cracker on repeat…

THE DANDY WARHOLS: Website – Facebook

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SLOWDIVE – A Spectacular Return With Dazzling New Single…”STAR ROVING”

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Legendary British shoegazers SLOWDIVE just released their first new song in 22 years.
In a press message singer/guitarist Neil Halstead says: “When the band decided to get back together in 2014, we really wanted to make new music. It’s taken us a whole load of shows and a few false starts to get to that point, but it’s with pride and a certain trepidation we unleash ‘Star Roving.’ It’s part of a bunch of new tracks we’ve been working on and it feels as fun, and
as relevant playing together now as it did when we first started. We hope folks enjoy it.” Enjoy it? Wow!  STAR ROVING is absolutely mega! An overwhelming  wall of glimmering guitars floating around a catchy melody with dreamy vocals all over it. Talking about a spectacular return. Here’s the gem…

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SLOWDIVE: Website – Facebook

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ELBOW – Here’s New BLACK FRANCIS inspired Track ‘ALL DISCO’…

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Manchester’s daydreamers ELBOW will release new album Little Fictions (their 7th)
on 3 February. Last month they released first single Magnificent (She Says) and
now they shared another new one called ALL DISCO. A vintage Elbow symphony with epic appeal.  It seems the song was inspired by a conversation frontman/singer Guy
Garvey had with Black Francis, the Pixies’ mastermind as Garvey explained in a video message: “I remember this phrase from Black Francis from the Pixies. I interviewed
him for a radio show 10 years ago in Lynchburg Tennessee. I was talking to him about between him being Black Francis and Frank Black and all these different incarnations. I said ‘with all these different styles of music, where are you going next?’ He said something along the lines of ‘you have punk rock, you have rock, you have blues, you have soul, it’s all disco. And I just love that attitude, from one of the most influential people – particularly to me. For him to have this attitude of ‘put everything into it, invest everything into it, but remember it’s not everything. I think that’s a really good way to do it. He’s not having any money but he
gave us a really good chorus there.” 

Here’s the compelling serenade …

ELBOW: Website – Facebook

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Artwork new album – out 3 February