Photo Credit: Gina Canavan The Paranoyds have made a name for themselves as one of the most exciting Los Angeles bands since forming in 2015, playing festivals like Coachella and touring with the likes of DIIV, Albert Hammond Jr., Sunflower Bean, and BRONCHO. Today the band finally announce their long-awaited debut album, Carnage Bargain – a raucous blend of garage rock grit, new wave swagger, classic horror film soundtrack campiness, and a myriad of other left-of-center influences. The exhilarating ten-track LP will be released via Suicide Squeeze on September 13 – pre-order HERE. The Paranoyds are on tour now with…
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Today Swedish supergroup Amason share a new track and a Petter Lennstrand-directed video for “Marry Me Just For Fun,” the second single taken from their forthcoming album, slated for an August release. Now the band confirms that it will be a double album released in two parts. The first part will be released on August 16 and the second part in the spring of 2020. Amason – comprising the combined talents of acclaimed Swedish musicians Amanda Bergman, Pontus Winnberg, Petter Winnberg, Gustav Ejstes and Nils Törnqvist – released their lauded debut album Sky City in 2015. It garnered worldwide acclaim and received the Swedish Grammis (GRAMMY equivalent) for Album Of The Year. Watch “Marry Me Just…
Photo By: Alexis Jade Gross Young Guv is Ben Cook. You may know the dedicated and prolific songwriter from his work and partake in F’cked Up and No Warning. Today he’s announced GUV I, a collection of staggeringly poignant and infectious pop music and label debut for Run For Cover which sees its release August 2. Alongside, he’s unveiled the album’s lead single and video “Every Flower I See.” Cook explains, “Flowers have been a powerful and prominent symbol in my life for as long as I can remember. When I was young, my mom moved me and my little brother back to Toronto from the…
Press Photo By Marie Lin SHEER MAG return with their sophomore album, A Distant Call. They’re still writing about surviving our current hellscape, but this time around, the politics get extra-personal. It’s heavy power-pop so sleek it gleams. “We’ve been waiting to write these songs since we started the band and we were able to take these experiences and build a story out of them,” notes front woman Tina Halladay. The album verges on being a concept piece, and the protagonist resembles Halladay herself. The songs document a particularly alienating time in her life when she was laid off from a job. Broke and newly single,…
Photo Credit: Kendall Bailey Atwater Daughter of Swords, aka Mountain Man’s Alexandra Sauser-Monnig, has shared an animated video for “Fields Of Gold,” the latest from her upcoming album, Dawnbreaker. Stereogum, who premiered the song and video today, which features drawings by Sauser-Monnig and animation by Robert Edridge-Waks, is saying “it shimmers and shines like a ray of light, a true field of gold if you will.” Of the song Sauser-Monnig says “‘Fields of Gold’ is a car song. It’s about that beautiful sense of possibility you get when you’re driving long distances and the facts of your life lift away enough to let you imagine parallel versions…