Articles
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The Body – The Myth Arc
On the cusp of their US collaboration tour with grind band Full of Hell this August & September,The Body have unveiled their eerie and haunting new video for “The Myth Arc,” a track taken from the duo’s critically acclaimed latest album No One Deserves Happiness. The video features notable actor Keir Gilchrist (It Follows, It’s…
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Thalia Zedek Band – Eve
Thalia Zedek Band – Afloat (Official Audio) Thalia Zedek has one of the most enduring and distinctive voices in modern rock music – a voice like no other – that can be heard in her work with some of the most groundbreaking underground bands, from Uzi and Live Skull to Come. Eve is her most…
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Marielle V Jakobsons and devotional hymns
Marielle V Jakobsons’ upcoming record Star Core revolves around minimalist synthesizer layers with melodic violin, flute, and vocals over elongated bass grooves. The songs on the album are Jakobsons’ version of devotional hymns, and they create a cosmic yet personal environment to slow down with and to get lost in. As an intermedia artist, Jakobsons…
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Marconi Union – Ghost Stations (2016)
After fourteen years of writing and performing, the trio – founder members Richard Talbot and Jamie Crossley with keyboard player Duncan Meadows – are thought to be “amongst today’s most talented musicians” (The Sunday Times). They have steadily developed and refined a unique musical identity; evoking emotions from gracefully blending elements of dub, jazz, ambience…
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The Velvet Underground Exhibition: New York Extravaganza
For the famous Banana Album‘s 50th anniversary, this immersive, impressionistic and multimedia exhibition dives into the Velvet Underground world. For the 50th anniversary of the mythic Banana Album, this exhibition shares the legacy of the Velvet Underground, the illustrious but short-lived band (1965-1970) that marked a major turning point in the history of music. …
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Crass: Semi Detached
Gee Vaucher was a founding member of the anarcho-punk collective that produced Crass. She was responsible for most of the arresting cover art for their albums, although she wasn’t the one who came up with the band’s ingenious logo; Penny Rimbaud’s friend Dave King came up with that one. Crass was one of the first…
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Marielle V Jakobsons – Star Core
On her new record Star Core (out 19th August), multi-instrumentalist Marielle V Jakobsons uses her voice for the first time, while expanding on ideas she explored in her previous solo records and as one-half of the group Date Palms. Star Core revolves around minimalist synthesizer layers with melodic violin, flute, and vocals over elongated bass…
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[Wrekmeister Harmonies] Light Falls
Wrekmeister Harmonies will return with their most sonically varied album to date, Light Falls. On Light Falls, the core of Wrekmeister, JR Robinson (vocals, guitar) and Esther Shaw (keyboards, piano, violin, vocals), are joined by Godspeed You! Black Emperor musicians Thierry Amar on bass and contrabass; Sophie Trudeau on piano, violin and vocals; and Timothy…