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The Handsome Family’s sixth album is possibly best remembered for “Far From Any Road”, the track that ended up in 2014 as the theme for the first season of the HBO TV series True Detective. It was set among Louisiana’s Gulf Coast bayous, a location almost as eerie as anything in the peerlessly weird musical worlds created by Brett and Rennie Sparks across a Handsome Family repertoire that by 2003’s Singing Bones was regularly turning songs into warnings, omens, anticipations of breakdown, predictions of trauma and disturbance; the musical equivalent of flapping ravens’ wings, something like that. It was the…
Film Name: Dept Meat Director: Benji Edward Writers: Benji Edward Starring: Laya Lewis, Keegan Carr, Jane McDowell, Paul Tonkin, Alex McKeown In a new interview on Blazing Minds ahead of the play’s short run at the Drayton Arms Theatre, I got a chance to ask SFX Artist Jason Jay Lowe a few questions about his involvement in ‘Debt Meat‘ Debt Meat will have a limited run at the Drayton Arms Theatre from 17th – 18th May. Q. You are involved in the new stage production Debt Meat. Can you tell us a bit about your role as the SFX Artist…
NAT ‘KING’ COLEUnforgettableCAPITOL, 1952That’s one of the first records I can remember. Sometimes we spend time with our grand-aunt, and she like that type of singing. So I think the first time I was exposed to Nat ‘King’ Cole was her playing some of his records, and it did get my attention. It has been a part of my consciousness from the first time I heard his voice. I never heard anybody sing like that! I’m in Jamaica, I don’t hear that type of singing. In my house, with my mother and father, we didn’t have Nat ‘King’ Cole. He…
The Mighty Lemon Drops are the latest band to get a limited ‘dinked’ edition to mark the 40th Anniversary of their debut album, Happy Head.Dinked is a collaboration between some of the UK’s most proactive and industrious independent music retailers and run by Natasha Youngs (Resident, Brighton) & Rupert Morrison (formerly of Drift, Totnes), alongside their respective day jobs, purely, they say ‘for the love and the buzz’. The duo has released vinyl from new artists, established acts along with future stars and Legends, with no genre being off limit. Amongst the diverse range of artists are Geese, Fat Dog,…
RADIOHOP are a four piece jazz/hip hop band from Amsterdam, exploring the boundaries between groove, texture, and improvisation. HARD TO HANDLE is their second album and the first drop on Melting Pot Music. As the title suggests, RADIOHOP are going hard on this one.When HARD TO HANDLE hit our inbox, the band labeled the 12 track project a “beat tape”. The music is raw, loud, and unapologetic. No polish, no garnish, straight from the source. But describing HARD TO HANDLE as a beat tape would not do justice to the quality of the music, that’s why we release it as…
Following last year’s Beaming EP with Vancouver wordsmith Moka Only, producer Rad Brown has set his sights on the legendary Detroit flows of Guilty Simpson with the 5-track project, Higher Level.Known for his impactful working relationship with the late J Dilla, Guilty is world-famous for his ghetto-repping tuffness. Rad Brown has swooped in with a fresh soundscape recipe, all emotive minor chords and atmospheric, layered joints.That emotional connection in the production isn’t random, reflects Rad.“I started building these beats around samples that have left their imprint on my life in one way or another. The most prominent sample in War…
“MUTE TV”, an alternative rock band based in Bath, England, deliver a gripping debut with “Drag Me Down”. The track was recorded live and honestly sounds like it was meant to be. You can easily hear their energy full on with this track…. araw, high-voltage debut that feels like a livewire hitting straight through the speakers.It is unfiltered, raw, energetic, and is a song that could be their calling card for people to get into their sound. It has that energetic FIFA soundtrack vibe about it. It is short, snappy, full-on, and has hooks left, right, and centre, with vocals…
“Prem Byrne”, an independent singer-songwriter based in Forest Knolls, United States, and the new offering from him is a clean and crisp acoustic rock affair with plenty of delightful guitar tones….warm, cinematic acoustic glow with heartfelt vocals and polished indie craft.You’ve got this mixture of acoustic and somewhat indie moments that come together to bring this soft rock track into the forefront of your mind.Vocals are incredibly emotional and are rather breezy at times, helping you ease into the song well before the halfway point. Those central female backing vocals it confirms the fact that you need to dive into…
“Lotta Svart” is a singer-songwriter and producer based in Turku, Finland, and she has recently revealed her new single, “Magi”…. acelestial dream-pop drift that feels like floating through sound.Credit: Cover photo by Arto Arvilahti, cover art and logo by Sampsa SipiläIt starts off with an ethereal vocal hook that honestly reminded me a lot of what Grimes was doing about 10 years ago. Very layered vocals with cinematic sounds that feel like they are touching the upper echelons of the sky. It is a serene blend of atmospheric dream pop with indie pop hooks and those aforementioned cinematic moments that…
“Mind Riot”, a high-energy three-piece from Detroit, United States, dropped their mega debut offering, “Big Talker”. They make quite a lot of noise considering they are just a three-piece…. athunderous debut that hits like a freight train and refuses to let go.The debut track does not hang about, with a punching drum kit welcoming you in with a chunky guitar and bass shortly following. The vocals are a big reason why I stuck around, and once they came in, I was nodding along in agreement.It sounds a bit 80s to early 90s at times, with some almost hair metal riffs…
London-based non-binary artist, producer, and engineer Ary Maudit introduces No Intention, a punchy guitar-led debut shaped by relationship chaos, creative restlessness, and pop-punk pressure. The technical depth is real. Ary worked with FKA twigs, Loyle Carner, and Yungblud, and mixed live for Kae Tempest and Floating Points across major festival stages including Glastonbury, Reading, and Leeds.Ary Maudi by Cindel OhThat background feeds directly into No Intention. First started as an electronic track, the song shifted as Ary returned to guitar-driven writing and punk urgency. Written between touring commitments, often on the back of tour buses using Ableton, it was later…
Bickering AOR kings Journey have added another lengthy run of shows to their current Final Frontier tour. The stretch of 40 new dates begins on September 12 at the Crypto.com Arena in Los Angeles, CA., and wraps up at the Chase Center in San Francisco, CA., on November 28.The new schedule is in addition to a run of 28 previously announced shows that kick off on Thursday this week at the Benchmark International Arena in Tampa, FL.Artist presale tickets go on sale tomorrow (Wednesday, May 13) at 12pm local time using the code FRONTIER, while the general sale begins at…