So far all we’ve heard from Gruff Rhys’ new solo album/project American Interior is the ridiculously good title track. Today that all changes as the Welsh legend has revealed a full stream of the album. Listen to American Interior here: The album is just one part of a full-scale multimedia project which includes a film,…
With a Calvin Harris vibe back from when he was good, ‘Free Falling’ is a catchy uptempo, electronic number with the sweet lead vocals of Florence Arnold pulling you into the record. With echoes of ‘Reverse Skydiving’ from Hot Natured, with the titles eerily reflecting each other, the use of rhyming and mixing up of…
Boyce Avenue’s seven-track EP is a downbeat but evocative collection of songs with a strong OneRepublic and The Script vibe flowing through the tracks. Though there’s not a huge amount to differentiate between the style of the tracks, there is a flowing connection between the individual songs. Opener ‘Speed Limit’ starts things off well with…
Beyonce has released her sixth studio album. The album is titled “Lemonade”. She released it as soon as her special show with the same name ended on HBO. Beyonce streamed non-stop music videos of all songs from her new album in this show. It’s perfect timing considering she already created a lot of buzz on…
Neon Neon, the synth duo comprising of Super Furry Animals’ Gruff Rhys and producer Boom Bip, surprised everyone with their debut album Stainless Style – managing to actually succeed in making an entertaining concept album about inventor John DoLorean. Now they’re at it again, choosing relatively unknown Italian left-wing activist and publisher Giangiacomo Feltrinelli as…
Iggy Pop and his fellow punk deities The Stooges are releasing a brand new album next week – and have today released a full stream of it via NPR. The album is called Ready To Die (no relation to a certain rap album of the same name!) and is their first for five years. In…
Jack White – Blunderbuss [rating:5/5] Buy Blunderbuss As perhaps the most enigmatic and mysterious rock star of the past decade or so, Jack White is not to be trusted. He, more than any of his peers, understands the benefits of mythologising and misdirection in the world of rock and roll – creating a rock star…
Legendary alt/grunge rock band Pixies released their first new album in over 20 years for Record Store Day this weekend. Well, I say ‘new album’ but Indie Cindy is actually a collection of the bands last few EPs. It’s still a big deal though, not just because it’s the Pixies but also because it’s very…
Death Grips – The Money Store [rating: 3.5/5] Buy The Money Store Sacramento trio Death Grips, MC Ride and production duo Andy Morin and Zach Hill, caused a bit of a stir in the hip-hop world last year with their debut album Exmilitary. So much of a stir, in fact, that Epic not only decided…
There’s been a a lot of mixed messages swirling around over the past few days regarding At The Drive-In / The Mars Volta founders Cedric Bixler-Zavala and Omar Rodríguez-López and a supposed new group called Antemasque. The last I heard of the duo, they had fallen out and gone their separate ways – with Cedric starting…
