Guillemots’ new album Hello Land sparked this new gem. I feel like I haven’t done a great job keeping track of them after their EP From the Cliffs, but I can’t ignore them again after hearing this song. Hello Land is the first of four albums Guillemots will be releasing this year. Guillemots: “Fleet”

Although The Horrors are from Essex, they do a fine job of hiding the “reem” spray tans as well as avoiding the stereotypical ethos of intellectual delinquency. So we feel it a pretty good idea for the psych quintet to revert to their true colours by heading back to their native Southend. And if you agree with us on that one, you will be absolutely ecstatic to hear that the band will be doing that very feat. It was about six months ago that The Horrors took their charming third album Skying down to the seaside, stopping off at Chinnery ...

mama got the white hippy moses blues again got the serpent can’t get the staff down where the bull rushes to escape the bolt yet i walk in this shadow approaching a fault a fissure of men oh what black chasm i tell you on the edge of eternal orgasm i see you over there all implication winter has spiked the cliffs and shot black stuff in oh i shudder although i’m still oh i scream although i’m silent oh i fly although i’m earthbound gods energy uh huh gimme a fix god don’t keep ...

i am a beggar on a forlorn shore wine women and song no longer my companions an old king deposed fallen on hard times betrayed by my sons betrayed by my sisters my stupid old head full of the spring cast adrift in this cosmos i clamber up yonder distant hills i rove the rocky beaches in thrall to their ocean i am a fool i am a rogue i squandered a fortune that was never mine i conquered a deep land inside and that was enough yes my evil twin within but tell me who really won….? i am ...

Seminal American group fIREHOSE are to collect their Columbia output on new compilation 'lowFLOWs'. A perennially under-rated band, fIREHOSE reformed earlier this year. Didn't notice? Perhaps that was because news broke on the same day that At The Drive-In and Refused emerged from the shadows. Terrible luck, but then, fIREHOSE were never exactly blessed with luck. A wonderfully creative outfit, the band's Columbia output is set to be collected on the new compilation 'lowFLOWs'. Amongst the underground bands who sneaked onto major labels in the grunge explosion, fIREHOSE released two albums for Columbia. Said LPs - 1991’s 'Flyin ...

Filed under: Concerts and Tours , News Getty|WireImage|Redferns Washington's Sasquatch! Music Festival has just announced its 2012 lineup, featuring headliners Jack White , Beck , Bon Iver , Pretty Lights , Tenacious D , The Shins and more. The four-day festival, which takes place over May 25-28 (Memorial Day Weekend) at The Gorge, a venue in the cliffs above the Columbia River Gorge in Quincy, Wash., is known for the variety of musical styles represented at its annual events, and this year is no exception.

The Singing Skies – the solo songwriting project for moonmilk’s Kell Derrig-Hall – has offered up a four-track EP for free download. Following last year’s debut Routine and War , which came in at #48 in our annual Critics Poll , Loaded Dice features the album’s title track, plus two intimate acoustic demos and a remix of album track A Message From The Cliffs by Seaworthy (aka Sydney ambient artist Cam Webb). The release coincides with a show this Saturday (February 4) at Red Rattler in Sydney with Ryan Francesconi (Joanna Newsom) and Melbourne’s Grand Salvo. Singing Skies’ live incarnation ...

Let England Shake is an album about war, but not in the usual browbeating fashion. It's an album about England, but four of its songs are based at Gallipoli. Since its Valentine's Day release there have been plenty of efforts to tie it in with various news events of the year but it won't adequately fit any of them. What it is is one of those rare moments of absolute working order, an inventive, alive songwriter with ideas both playful and pitch-black allying them to a band in perfect interlocking order and a sympathetic producer who makes ...

Company – “Holy City” – Ltd Edition LP (300) / Digital A series of serendipitous events allows Exit Stencil to excitedly present you with “Holy City” — the first full-length album from Charleston, South Carolina’s Company. While the full telling of the story would run many pages, for brevity’s sake, here is the Cliffs Notes [...]

Leslie Feist is exhausted. She's curled up beneath the covers of the stately oak-framed bed in her room at the Lafayette House hotel in downtown Manhattan. I ask if she'd like to talk in the ivy-covered private backyard, but she insists on staying put. The singer/songwriter flew in the night before from her native Toronto, now her sole residence after living part-time in Paris, and she's just finishing her first press day promoting her fourth full-length album, Metals . She grabs my recorder, snuggles deeper into the pearl-white sheets, and whispers, "Pillow talk! Pillow talk! I'm ...

As we all learned in grade school, it's hard to find a stripper pole on the cliffs of Iceland. And so The Saturdays are left to bundle up and wander around the island country looking properly tortured in their video for "My Heart Takes Over," the Steve Mac -produced third single from upcoming album On Your Radar (out November 21 in the UK). If rumors are true, the Sats — or at least four of them — will be able to shed the heavy coats for thongs when they hit Los Angeles in the new year, as they've apparently inked ...

Lately I have been blessed with some awesome music to listen to and possibly review. Although, I must say I have had a bit of writer's block so I decided to write about an EP I have listened to over 1,000 times. This week Waveriders, I bring you alexisonfire's final EP: Dog's Blood . alexisonfire have been one of my favorite bands, if not my favorite band of the last 10 years. I mean I got their logo tattooed me after only a few listens to their self-titled debut album. When I heard that record I instantly ...

Songs about insomnia, serenading cows and the paradoxes of Sydney – KELL DERRIG-HALL guides us through his debut album as Singing Skies, ‘Routine and War’. ‘Acting Fine’ I think I wrote this song during a period when I felt a little stagnant and the lyrics reflect that. It's about wanting to find something that’s worth sticking your neck out a little for. I suppose I was just sick of my job at the time and felt like my time and my energy could be put more in the direction of the things and the people that I love. Biddy ...

What: Routine and War by The Singing Skies. When: June 10 through Preservation. Key notes: Debut album from Kell Derrig-Hall, a Sydney musician who’s played with the likes of Jack Ladder, Rand and Holland and Seaworthy. Features backing vocals from partner and Moonmilk bandmate Lia Tsamoglou (aka Melodie Nelson) and guest musicians including Biddy Connor (strings), Laura Jean (piano) and Jen Sholakis (percussion). Recorded by Simon Grounds in Melbourne. From the presser: “Spare, disarming and open, these songs flower slowly with plaintive guitar at their core, often with a country lilt or a spellbinding, serpentine feel.” Tracklisting: Acting Fine ...

Crashing waves of intricate and infectious riffs wage their war against the cliffs of your ears, that’s right it’s Mishkin, providing guitar harmonies and gang vocals a plenty, their dish of finely stirred rock would go well with any main course. I hate to repeat myself but infectious is probably the best word to cover all bases here, the fist-pumping verses lead perfectly up to damned-near-perfect choruses, the moods Ben Davy so aptly purveys are so captivating and believable that the vocals alone give you the impression that you’re being told a story, and one from the ...