Tides End, the second LP from Minks, recently released on Captured Tracks, is a big departure from the more guitar driven, shoegazey sound of the first album. Sonny Kilfoyle, the man who is Minks, relocated for a time to the East End of Long Island as a means of curing his writer’s block. He stumbled on an old estate named […]

Fighting a men dominant world, PINS don’t like the idea of all girl bands being compared to all other girl bands; they think stereotyping is “a bit pathetic”. Natives from Manchester, Sophie Galpin on drums, Anna Donigan on bass, Lois McDonald on guitar and Faith Holgate on vocals, breakthrough with a great single called “Lost Lost Lost”. Permeated with really […]

Family is the first track to be released from Oslo-based duo Apothek. The brains behind Apothek, Nils Martin Larsen and Morten Myklebus, describe Apothek as a chance to try out a new sound compared to their earlier work. The duo take their inspiration in anything from early The Knife productions to the songwriting of Fionn Regan and this becomes clear […]

Brisbane-based quartet, Violent Soho, released a video for their new single Dope Calypso last week. Fresh off their forthcoming third studio album, Hungry Ghost, Dope Calypso is a black and white montage of the dudes hanging out backstage, recording, getting bevvied, skateboarding, and of course, rocking out. Directed by Timothy O’Keefe, the video is beautifully shot and the candid nature […]

Froth is an American band, based in LA, that comes directly from the unstoppable californian underground (Ty Segall, Thee Oh Sees, King Tuff). The sound is really peculiar of the LA garage scene, with the distinct acid effects and the Bigsby-like guitar licks. The band was started by two friends in El Segundo. Joo Joo Ashwort (guitar & vocals) and […]

Watch Potty Mouth spend a carefree day jamming, pranking, and filling a bathtub with candy in their new video for “The Spins”. Let me start off by saying that I love Potty Mouth. Every song they’ve released so far, including the six tracks on last year’s Sun Damage EP, has been a noisy pop-punk gem that makes me daydream about […]

With just a week left till their second full-length album release, the Danish musical collective The Eclectic Moniker treats us to a new music video for the single Sports. It’s no secret that The Eclectic Moniker has a knack for writing songs that scream sun, beaches and holiday, and Sports is no exception as it makes you smile the second […]

In 2007, Stuart McLamb started recording music on his own as a reaction to a bad breakup. 6 years later, The Love Language has become a full-fledged recording project. His third album, Ruby Red, features an army of musicians, fearlessly led by its captain, Mclamb. This time out, lo-fi has given way to multi-layered, orchestral production, and his romantic, alt-country […]

When Hurricane Sandy stroke New York last year, Mauro Remiddi, the man behind Porcelain Raft, found an inspiration for the second single from his new album Permanent Signal. Accompanied now with a ghastly video, “The Way Out,” sets in an empty strip club focusing in only two characters. What happens next you’d want to find out. Impregnated with catchy beats […]

Former WU LYF members Joe Manning, Evans Kati and Tom McClung decided to start a brand new project, quite far from the soundscapes of the previous band. Los Porcos is a melting pot of all the funky and disco influences that didn’t find enough space in the ex-group. With a couple of songs released online, the New York based crew showed […]