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Though still young enough to have as much future stretching ahead as past behind him, Kevin Morby has already clocked up nine albums that track his migrations – first from his native state of Texas to Kansas, then to NYC, LA and back to Kansas (City) – while fine-tuning his countrified folk-rock. Both Harlem River and City Music stand as odes to New York, while Sundowner documented his Midwest homecoming, and 2022’s This Is A Photograph was inspired by Memphis and largely written during a stay there in its historic Peabody hotel. On Morby’s 10th, specific places (and events connected…
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…
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…
Greek extreme metal titans Rotting Christ have announced a special reissue of their seminal 2000 album, Khronos. Set for release on 10th July 2025 via Season of Mist, the reissue brings the closing chapter of the band’s gothic arc back to vinyl, marking a pivotal moment in the creative evolution of brothers Sakis and Themis Tolis. Pre-orders are available now.Recorded at Sweden’s legendary Abyss Studios during a brutal Nordic winter, Khronos occupies a unique space in the band’s discography. It serves as the bridge between the polished gothic metal of the late 90s and the mythologically driven, blackened sound that…
Glasgow’s premier purveyors of art-pop flamboyance, Walt Disco, have returned with their first new music since 2024’s The Warping. The new single, “Coup de foudre,” marks a bold new chapter for the band, arriving as their debut release under the newly minted EMI North label.Meaning “bolt of love” or “love at first sight,” “Coup de foudre” trades the orchestral grandeur of their recent work for a high-velocity rush of 2000s dancefloor intensity. Vocalist Jocelyn Si describes the track as “horny and chaotic,” channeling the raw energy of early Yeah Yeah Yeahs into a euphoric, three-minute jolt. The track signals a…
Multi-platinum rock powerhouse Daughtry have announced the upcoming release of Shock to the System (Deluxe), set to arrive on 5th June 2026 via Big Machine Rock. This comprehensive deluxe edition brings together the full scope of the band’s acclaimed two-part project – originally released as separate EPs – alongside four brand-new live recordings that capture the visceral energy of their recent arena runs.The release will be available exclusively on vinyl, with three distinct double-LP variants. Collectors can choose between a widely available blue-and-orange splatter edition, a glow-in-the-dark version limited to 250 signed copies, and a metallic silver picture disc, also…