Colour Me Wednesday release their début album I Thought It Was Morning towards the end of next month (Discount Horse Records). As a taster for the album they have released the track Shut as a free download single. I get pretty giddy on merry go rounds so if you do to don’t watch the video! Homepage Facebook Continue reading Colour Me Wednesday – Shut
Girl One And The Grease Guns release the follow up to April’s excellent début single Driving Without Headlights (Once Again). Jessica 6 is backed with Bring On The Dancing Meat and will be out on Squirrel Records next month although it’s up for pre-orders now. Girl One And The Grease Guns – Jessica 6 Girl One And The Grease Guns – Bring On The Dancing Meat Continue reading Girl One And The Grease Guns – Jessica 6
Tyrannosaurus Dead have posted a video for the title track taken from their forthcoming Pure // Apart EP due for release next month. It’s being released as a limited edition (250) 12″ EP on Oddbox Records. The track listing is as follows: 01. Buried In The Ground 02. Soft 03. Sadie 04. Matthew 05. Splinters 06. Pure & Apart You can order it from here. You can listen to two more tracks from the EP: Facebook Continue reading Tyrannosaurus Dead – Pure // Apart
Excellent punky, riot grrrl-ish powerpop from Brisbane’s Go Violets. Josie is taken from a single due to be released on Hairy Mexican Music (no website as yet) in July. You can also download a few mp3’s from here. Facebook Continue reading Go Violets – Josie
Flowers have made the When You Lie single available as a digital download. It’s yours for nowt or as much as you can chip in. The 7″ is still available via Cloudberry Records. They have also made available some demos form their “early days”. This set features Cut and Run which appeared as a limited edition single via Bleeding Gold. Facebook Continue reading Flowers – When You Lie EP
The first post I wrote about Flowers seem to be consistently popular on this site. Since then we (Sleeping Today) have put the band on and I also managed to get my mitts on the Cloudberry 7″ release which is still available if you can afford the US postage charges which make ours look pretty reasonable! Here is another release of theirs I came across after the original post. It came out in July last year via Bleeding Gold Records. The limited edition lathe cut 7″ vinyl (!) release is sold out but the digital tracks are still available. And … Continue reading Flowers – Cut & Run
The latest release in the Eardrums Pop series is from Spain’s Lost Tapes. Eardrums say “Catchy, upbeat indiepop in the veins of The Pains of Being Pure at Heart, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Pastels, Ride, Spacemen 3 and lots of Creation- and Sarah Records bands“. I am not sure about all of that suffice to say it’s an enjoyable listen. Head to the Eardrums release page for more or download the EP directly. Continue reading Lost Tapes – S/T EP
I have mentioned The Fireworks debut self titled EP previously. They have now released a video for the lead track “Higher and Higher”. They also have a change of drummer. Carys has rejoined the reformed (or should that be revitalised?) Give It Ups and has been replaced by Shaun Charman who used to play in The Wedding Present and The Popguns. The EP can be purchased via the label. Homepage Continue reading The Fireworks – Higher and Higher
You may be able to guess who this may be once the vocals kick in. The flip side is fantastic. Sounds like The Normal remixed for 2013. Or members of a certain Leeds based group creating the perfect retro sound when it comes to electronica. Erm…………….. Buy from Squirrel Records Homepage Continue reading Girl One And the Grease Guns – Driving Without Headlights (Once Again)
Buy from Zoo Music or Pebble Records (UK) Homepage Continue reading Virals – Strange Fruit EP
Records I Like 