Collaborative Music Blogging Project
Lovable Bristol band IDLES last week trailed their third album with a new single, Mr. Motivator, backed by an amazing lockdown video: IDLES frontman Joe Talbot says of the song: “We want to start this journey with a means to not only encapsulate the album’s sentiment, but to encourage our audience to dance like no…
Continue reading IDLES release lockdown video for Mr Motivator + guitar tutorial
New releases we’re currently enjoying – featuring Half Japanese, Air Waves, Active Bird Community, Advance Base, Lens Mozer and Mike Krol
Earlier this year, Kid Vinyl was taken offline following all kinds of unpleasantness with a hack. Finding the time to systematically inspect every single file that makes up the site took me frankly ages, and so we disappeared, seemingly forever. I’m happy to say all that is over now, however, and normal service will soon…
Continue reading …and we’re back
Girls on Film – 1979 Demo by Duran Duran There’s a side to my personality that drives me to stay up late diving down Wikipedia rabbit holes exploring the personnel changes of interesting bands. Rock Family Trees was TV made for me. So of course I was excited to hear about this release, on Cleopatra…
Continue reading [Review] Duran Duran – Girls on Film 1979 Demo
From the album Mary Casio: Journey to Cassiopeia, out September 22nd on My Own Pleasure. The album is a arranged for analogue synths and a brass band, and tells the story of an elderly electronic musician and her desire to travel from her home in Barnsley to see Cassiopeia for herself. Live shows for Mary…
Continue reading Hannah Peel streams ‘Archid Orange Dwarf’
(Diet Cig photo by Daniel Dorsa) I love this, even if I was mouthing ‘duck!’ at my screen towards the end there. From Diet Cig’s debut, I Swear I’m Good At This. The duo are coming to Europe this autumn: ep 23 – Tourcoing, FR @ Le Grand Mix Sep 25 – Paris, FR @…
Continue reading [Video] Diet Cig – Barf Day
Bristol’s excellent Idles have just unveiled an excellently anarchic video for their new single Stendhal Syndrome, starring handsomely bearded bassist Dev. The band embark on a UK tour this spring, calling at March 2017 Monday 6th – Cambridge – Portland Arms Wednesday 8th – Bristol – The Fleece Thursday 9th – Colchester – Arts Centre…
Continue reading [Video] Idles – Stendhal Syndrome
From their fifth album Enter the Kingdom, out February 17th on Loose. Frontier Ruckus tour Europe in March March 8 – York – The Fulford Arms March 9 – Glasgow – Hug and Pint March 11 – Northampton – The Lamplighter March 13 – Bristol – The Crofters Rights March 14 – Brighton – The…
Continue reading [Video] Frontier Ruckus – ‘Our Flowers Are Still Burning’
Portland, Oregon quintet Radiation City release their new single Milky White via Polyvinyl today, and have announced a slew of European tour dates this spring. The band will be taking in 20.04.2016 Hamburg (DE), Aalhaus 21.04.2016 Berlin (DE), Kantine am Berghain 22.04.2016 Leipzig (DE), Baustelle 23.04.2016 Schorndorf (DE), Manufaktur 25.04.2016 Munich (DE), Café Muffathalle 27.04.2016…
Continue reading Out Today: Radiation City – ‘Milky White’
My Sunday morning listening – a beautiful track from Moroccan-French singer Hindi Zahra, from the new album Homeland. Hindi plays the Elgar Room at the Royal Albert Hall in London on the 8th November as part of the Nour Festival of Arts.
