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Buy the album from Amazon – Vinyl | MP3 I’ve only recently come into contact with World Unite! Lucifer Youth Foundation, or “Woo Life” as their Wikipedia page says it can be pronounced. They’re one of the bands that sort of slipped through the cracks for me as other parts of my life got very [...]

If you’re reading this, chances are you consider yourself to at least some extent a fan of underground music. Given that, you might be intrigued to hear about Israeli rockers Modern Tapes. They’re an underground band. No, literally: they formed in a bomb shelter, as well as playing and recording there for nearly a year. [...]

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Following on from earlier releases, “Ablaze” and “No More Canyons“, the gorgeously haunting Quiet Lights are back with a new single, “Simple Mechanics”. Getting ready for the release of their EP  ”The Big Fear” out on June 28th on Old Flame Records, this track sees them continuing the layered wall of sound that we at [...]

It’s a crime, a motherfucking crime, that so many bands, musicians, artists, and Kriss Kros tribute duos go without notice and attention. What makes it worse is the amount of time and energy and money and passion these artists pour into every aspect of their art, all to go without the millions of people hearing [...]

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WU LYF (World Unite Lucifer Youth Foundation) have been around for a couple of years, releasing demos and songs as a mysterious outfit, bypassing the normal (in these days) methods of blogs and labels and PR firms to promote themselves, then as interest grew in this group of Mancunians, interest came from each of those [...]

I make no secret of loving early ’90s music, so I’m being totally spoiled by this shoegaze revival that seems to be under way at the moment. I mean, obviously I’m one of the people who would say that it never went away, but for once the rest of the world seems to be agreeing [...]

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If, like me, you were barely old enough to string sentences together during the early nineties heyday of shoegaze, the genre’s ongoing revival is something of a blessing. On Volcano, a four-piece group from Tampere, Finland, provide the latest aural treat for revivalists. “New Blood”, their second EP released late last year, is a little [...]

If I had to limit myself to one observation about Soft then a) this would be a pretty short post, and b) I would say they sound British. While I’m willing to admit that I may be biased on this front, I just have to say kudos to them for that. There’s no point pussy-footing [...]

If you ask an upcoming artist to cite their influences, it’s often tough to stop the torrent of names, always important names, that comes flooding in response. Talking to Nicholas Yu, the man behind the electronic music of National Park System, is a little different. His biggest influence? Video game music. He used to tape [...]

My first introduction to Silver Swans was via I Guess I’m Floating when they posted their track “Secrets”, so I gave the task of having our own introduction piece about the band to one of my writers, and Kimberly dutifully obliged. With most waves of genres coming out these days, however ridiculous or serious or enthralling they [...]

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When thinking of bands from Scandinavia your list would probably start with Abba, then move on to other mainstream ones like Roxette, Ace of Base and The Cardigans.  You might also have a complete list of all the Death Metal bands to hail from there. Alternatively you may well be heading into my particular taste [...]