Weekly Playlist: 8 May 2015
Monthly Archive: May 2015
Video: Timberwolf – Whiskey Jar
Hookers, creepy dolls and man’s animal nature all shot at a motel once frequented by the Rolling Stones form the basis of the video for “Whiskey Jar,” the latest single from Flux, the new EP from Australia’s Timberwolf. Documenting the…
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First Listen: Ghost Suns – Stay
Marrying the rudimentary synth runs of Ultravox with the blanched choruses of Sisters of Mercy, London’s Ghost Suns announce their arrival with the murky “Stay.” A studied throwback to the pleading days of MTV’s early ’80s electropop era, “Stay” is…
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First Listen: Secret Club – Secret Club
Nashville sleaze-rockers Secret Club have released their latest single, the self-titled “Secret Club.” Channeling New York gutter rock, the trio of AJ Babcock, Nate Moran and Angela Plake make the kind of music that will simultaneously scare the shit out…
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First Listen: Two Sheds – I Am My Own
Narrowly eschewing melodicism, Caitlin Gutenberger and Two Sheds deliver blunt utterances of acceptance with an acerbic cadence, drawing a line in the sand when it comes to personal accountability on “I Am My Own,” the latest single from the band’s…
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First Listen: Wolf River Harbor – I Just Need Time
Deriving his moniker from Jeff Buckley’s place of death in Memphis, Tennessee, Manchester, UK’s Wolf River Harbor quietly issued his debut single, “I Just Need Time.” Finger-picked guitar gives way to a brief squall of electric flurry with fallible multi-tracked…
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Download: Brontosaurus – Safe to Surface
Id and ego Deftly confound Making fragments of intended sound The above is an apt description of the piecemeal build constructed by Chicago duo Brontosaurus on “Safe to Surface,” the first single from their forthcoming sophomore album Our Animal Ways….
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First Listen: Refried Ice Cream – Solar Plane
Returning with their 12th under-the-radar release of irreverent truth, the political father/son band Refried Ice Cream has delivered Cosmic Comic Book. A jazzy cacophony of Miles Davis, Tom Waits and Southern Culture on the Skids with a Texas drawl, “Solar Plane” cuts through…
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Weekly Playlist: 1 May 2015