" Impulsive and dangerous with a paradoxically sweet core, Leerone’s album `Heart Shaped Bullets` blows into town like a home-wrecking Delilah hell bent on trouble. Seething with the spirit of emancipation and self-discovery, Heart Shaped Bullets cocks the hammer on a new, self-styled brand of soul revivalism—a collection of songs compelling enough to jog listeners out of their workaday complacency into a new, experiential way of living. With rock-inflected original songs that suggest some heaven-sent collusion between Nancy Sinatra, the Rolling Stones, PJ Harvey & the Black Keys, Heart Shaped Bullets increases female sexual desire and significantly improves potency in men. [...]
Photo Credit : Kurt Von Stetten "Mining the edges of indie, country, and the worst of basic cable, The Longwalls make American pop music. Featuring ex-Gatsby heroes Alan Wuorinen and Brandon Comstock with Dan London and DIY wunderkind Kurt von Stetten on drums, The Longwalls stalk a line between noisy post-pop and twang—exploring ideas and ideals from pop and pulp alike". Expansive Americana and breezy guitar Pop, The Longwalls capture the sound of a dusty repetitious highway and the lonely poetic spirit of adventure, the simmering combination of flickering Indie guitars and [...]
" WhiteMoor are back with their first single in over a year! The band have been away working harder than ever recording the follow up to their now highly acclaimed debut self titled album and are giving us a taste of what people can expect in their second album with ‘High Lights’ the lead single from the forthcoming record Horizons ". The WhiteMoor music machine is gathering momentum and their creative juices have been subjected to a dose of spectacular free flow, if the new album is loaded with similar enduring charms, the Derby (UK) based five-piece are [...]
" Formed in 2009 the band encompasses two pairs of brothers - David and Mark Hayfield, and Jamie and Liam Chrisp. White Bone Rattle are quintessential garage psychedelic rock with catchy scuzzy guitar riffs, melodic bass, flamboyant gravelly vocals and swirling harmonies. Their sound evokes instantaneous nostalgia that harps back to the 60s and 70s and bands such as The Doors or Cream. They also site inspiration from more modern bands such as Tame Impala and The Black Keys. The entire Creature Of Curiosity album was recorded in an abandoned Victorian psychiatric hospital in London, the ominous surroundings have undoubtedly [...]
" The Spitfires are a vital young band where the words music and clothes become one and they push towards a realism/escapism for a generation spawned on talent shows, low level intelligent media and a lack of ambition and urge the real talent of Britain to buck the trend". Released this week `Spark to Start` b/w `Sirens` is a debut for the band`s new line-up, recorded at Paul Weller`s Black Barn studios, I`d call this a traditional double A-side with both tracks providing a soothing balm of frenetically creative three minute Guitar-Pop. `Spark To Start` strives [...]
The Spitfires are a vital young band where the words music and clothes become one and they push towards a realism/escapism for a generation spawned on talent shows, low level intelligent media and a lack of ambition and urge the real talent of Britain to buck the trend. Released this week `Spark to Start` b/w `Sirens` is a debut for the band`s new line-up, I`d call this a traditional double A-side with both tracks providing a soothing balm of jangly three minute Guitar-Pop Resurgence or revivalist, lead vocalist and guitarist Billy Sullivan accepts the comparisons made [...]
"Mos Generator has returned after a three year hiatus with the introspective and dynamically heavy Nomads! Fusing the band’s trademark sound of explosive heavy dissonance with equally beautiful melodic passages, the Port Orchard trio is giving Hard Rock fans a forty minute rock n’ roll treat that is five years in the making. Lyrically, Mos Generator is taking their listeners to the deepest depths of the human condition and the constant struggle for soul survival, and along the way, those same listeners are headed to the cosmos with visionary tales. Recorded at HeavyHead Studios by Tony Reed (Stone Axe/Blood of [...]
Australian alternative rock group Monks of Mellonwah have announced that they will be travelling to the U.S.A for a 2nd time to perform at the 2012 Los Angeles Music Awards, (where the band has received 3 award nominations including 'Best International Artist'), tour the California and New York regions, and record some new tracks that will feature in their up and coming debut album. The Monks have had a whirlwind of a year since their "Best Indie Rock Band" win at the 2012 Artists in Music Awards earlier in 2012 and the Summer release of their new EP "Neurogenesis", which [...]
"Paradors is a collaborative effort between musicians in Sweden, England and Canada. Every penny from all sold albums will go directly to MAG (Mines advisory group) which is a neutral and impartial organization that clears out landmines around the world. MAG (Mines Advisory Group) saves and improves lives by reducing the devastating effects armed violence and remnants of conflict have on people around the world. The initiative is the brainchild of Swedish musician and former aid worker Jesper Eriksson. Best known in the music industry as part of Swedish outfit The Auto Dropouts, Eriksson was inspired [...]
"Franc sings torch songs that unite and bring happiness, with undercurrents of the Italianesque corrido and a voice that gathers the tones of the great songsters of the American western migration". Franc Cinelli`s intimate, often charming approach to his self-penned work never fails to express those tingling warm feelings, the London based singer-songwriter keeps it simple by focusing on his fabulous vocal strengths and personal epiphany. The 16 track collection `Journey Under Moonshine` covers great moments of emotional conscience including a new unreleased track `John Giles`, a mouthwatering revelation for the new record promised for next year. [...]
"The track was recorded in lead singer Jacks bedroom and conjures images of dark Sci-fi landscapes. The song showcases his inimitable vocal style which fits perfectly with the nostalgic and broody stadium electro synths". Posting out a belated mention for Glaswegian three-piece `Apollo Gets The Girl` - Free download attached to the stream below, you won`t be disappointed. Drifting moments of clever Alternative-Pop laced with a tentative edge befitting a dimly lit cinematic causeway. Learn More New Dawn Video
"Saint Maybe is as much a journey as a band. It speeds down Highway 1960, hangs a left at Psychedelic Boulevard and pulls up in front of your house. Out steps Oliver Ray (Patti Smith) and company, unpacking memories of AM radio and erecting signs to the future mapped out by the beat poets. Saint Maybe is as fresh now as the birth of rock and roll was then". Hedonistic poetics and jangled-out guitar riffs, Saint Maybe`s approach towards the logistics of a Rock and Roll band is a wondrous source of pure musical collaboration, any retro [...]
"The Sister Ruby Band is the psych-rock project of 23 year old Los Angeles based Marlon Rabenreither aka Johnny Ruby. The brand new single `Oh Mercy` was produced by Rick Parker (Brian Jonestown Massacre, BRMC) and is accompanied by a music video directed by Focus Creeps' Aaron Brown and Ben Chappell (Girls, Cass McCombs, Arctic Monkeys, Beach Boys). The Sister Ruby Band just released two digital-exclusive singles. The songs pitch Rabenreither’s brutally honest vocals into a plexus of dreamy riffs and boil it black". A Sister Ruby Band post has become an annual occurrence on mojophenia, [...]
"Silent Revolution is best described as a meeting between an indie songwriter and a pop-rock band. The former is Massimiliano Morini, an English musician and writer born in Italy by mistake, and joined for the occasion by Lorenzo Gasperoni, Francobeat Naddei and Denis Valentini. Moro’s debut album, My Favourite Season, was published in 2010 to great critical acclaim. With its finely crafted songs of love, lust and loneliness, it won two Indie Awards in 2011 (for best rock album and best English lyrics), and evoked comparisons with the likes of Tim Buckley, Bob Corn, Wilco, Sufjan Stevens and Micah P. [...]
Photo Credit Matt Singleton "The Bloody Angle plays southern-fried swamp rock, with a touch of Americana and a hint of Country. Gritty guitars, lap-steel, and finger-picking support vocal harmonies and traditional keyboard tones. The sound conjures the southern countryside, civil war battlefields and backroad watering holes. Influences include Drive By Truckers, Jack White and Neil Young. The eponymous debut album was available on October 16th, 2012. The album was recorded entirely in the analog realm, at producer-songwriter Matt Singleton’s studio in the Central Virginia countryside. `We wanted to produce a record that was warm, immediate, and [...]
Photo Credit Brad Conrad "Everything about Canadian power-duo Indian Handcrafts seems to defy possibilities: a two piece that's louder than a hundred bands, kicking out one of the year's most riff-rollicking albums that was recorded while the guitarist had a broken hand! They're two friendly, soft-spoken Canadian guys sounding like the Funkadelic Mothership crash landing on top of the Planet Caravan in Interstellar Overdrive. Bursting out of Barrie, Ontario this pair of charming gentlemen immediately impacted the world with a self-released 8-song debut album in 2011. Cathy Pellow of Sargent House quickly took notice and signed [...]
"INK are Miriam Massie and Colin Mac, two Londoners by way of Liverpool and Scotland respectively. INK have yet to play live and Ink Goes On marks the first time they have taken any of their tracks out of the studio. while working at Metropolis Studios in London, Miriam and Colin caught the ear of Dom Morley, a Grammy Award winner who won his award for work on Amy Winehouse’s Back To Black album. With Dom at the production helm, they’ve carried on developing and honing their sound". A sweet track that`s recently been gathering [...]
"Somewhere inside these songs of apocalyptic dread beats the awkward, romantic heart of a late-seventies high-school prom band that wants to make you dance in all your adolescent, hormonal humanity. I'm In You's omnivorous musical entity absorbs twitched-out post-punk, disco, and minimalist rhythm experiments and blends them with vocal incantations and guitar freak-outs, in a sincere attempt to deconstroy everything we love and hate about rock and roll". The Brooklyn based collective "I`m In You" have thrust forward the first track from their forthcoming full-length release on a free download. There`s plenty to love in just over [...]
Photo design by Melissa Arendt and Jesse Vasquez "A tiny garage in a downtown alley. A cello, a guitar, and a voice. From these minimal beginnings, Exquisite Corps sprang onto Sacramento's music scene in the spring of 2010. Taking a year to solidify a line-up, they have since become a marriage of both classical and modern sounds melding string trio and indie rock trio into a whole. They have shared the stage with such acts as Said the Whale, Sister Crayon, The Ganglians, Sea of Bees, and many more, playing at Launch Fest two years in [...]
"The Trashed Romeos have a pretty straightforward mission statement on their debut record `Where Dreamers Never Go`, paying homage to their late friend Jim Dickinson and to focus attention on some of their hometowns unsung psychedelic garage rock heroes. A Memphis super group of the highest order, the band was born out of the ashes of Greg Roberson’s band, Snake Eyes, featuring legendary producer/session man Jim Dickinson (Bob Dylan, Rolling Stones, Big Star, The Replacements, Ry Cooder). Four months after Snake Eyes called it quits, Roberson and Dickinson began songwriting sessions at Dickinson’s Zebra Ranch Studios with Roberson’s Tiger High band mates Jake and Toby Vest. The band recorded 16 [...]
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