After 16 years, The Cure finally release their 14th studio album. Songs Of A Lost World finds Robert Smith contemplating death, loneliness, aging and alienation. So what’s new?
Soul Asylum have just released their 13th solo album titled Slowly But Shirley and here is front man Dave Pirner to tell us all about it.
With the recent death of Phil Lesh, bassist for The Grateful Dead and a 50th Anniversary deluxe edition of their album, From The Mars Hotel just released, I reluctantly revisit the Dead.
Soccer Mommy, aka Sophie Allison, has just released her fourth album, Evergreen, one in which she calls a sonic return to her roots.
“Play something eclectic and weird!” That shout from a fan at the back of Auckland’s Spark Arena resonated as Thom Yorke played the first of two shows at the venue and just the second overall for his Everything Tour.
Iain Matthews has been making music for almost 60 years…as a founding member of Fairport Convention, scoring a hit with Woodstock with his band Matthews Southern Comfort and releasing somewhere between 40-50 solo albums.
Its New Music Friday again! This week’s new releases are an embarrassment of riches. You probably know about the new albums by Fat Freddy’s Drop, The Pixies and Soccer Mommy. But there is more…much more. Here are the albums we don’t want you to miss.
Kneecap is a trio of Northern Irish lads who rap in Irish. The group has made such an impact in their native Belfast that a film has been made about them and they star in it as themselves.
Lone Justice sprang out of the fertile LA “cowpunk” scene of the 1980s that also spawned bands like Rank & File, Social Distortion and The Blasters and distinguished themselves with the powerful pipes of vocalist Maria McKee. The band split after releasing just two albums…now there is a third.
Tess Liautaud is about to release her second album, titled Blue Mind. Here is Tess, direct from Christchurch, by way of Paris and New York to tell us about it.
