Straight out of the majestic Burger Records catalogue, Cleveland’s Gap Dream are the perfect merge of 80s instrumentation with 60s songwriting: absolutely brilliant at bringing out old fashioned pop songs with the help of a peculiar futuristic approach. Gabe Fulvimar, deus ex machina of this project, is clearly under the influence of several psych-rock and garage bands from the 60s […]

North Highlands released their first new track in over a year, sharing a glimpse of what’s to come on their next album, currently in the works. North Highlands has been largely quiet since their 2011 release of Wild One. “We’ve been in hibernation mode for almost a year now” frontwoman Brenda Malvini posted on the band’s website back in June. That has […]

Watch Christchurch-based T54‘s haunting new video for “Life is Swell” ahead of their debut full-length release, In Brush Park. Signed to the legendary Flying Nun label – home of The Clean, The Chills, and The Bats – T54 join an esteemed list of New Zealand indie bands, bringing with them their own brand of noisy indie rock. Though perhaps more […]

Bland de beställningar som görs här senast den 8 september lottar vi ut en röd tygpåse som signerades av Håkan bakom scen under helgens Popaganda i Stockholm. För att inte påskynda hösten ytterligare fortsätter vi med festivalrabatten på 20 kr under hela tävlingsperioden, en påse kostar alltså 80 kr. Det finns nu totalt färre än 50 påsar kvar. Vid “Item sold […]

Unofficially the last (worth to mention) summer festival in Sweden, long-time runner Popaganda, announced a new attendance record, serving 12000 people a nice smorgasbord of upcoming and established pop acts during two days at Eriksdalsbadet in Stockholm on Aug 30-31. We had a nice weekend, catching shows with The xx, Hot Chip, Sibille Attar, MS MR, Taken By Trees, Jens Lekman, […]

To celebrate the release of his new album Warm Blanket this week, Dent May delivers a head-spinning video for the first single Born Too Late. Don’t we often wish we lived in the time when our parents and grandparents got to be youngsters? Wasn’t the grass greener and the love sweeter back then? Dent May definitely seems to struggle with […]

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 […]