The new release by The Radio Dept., Teach Me to Forget, is a six-track EP comprised of two brand new songs, three remixes and the band's new take on the title track, initially released on their previous album, the heartily received Running Out Of Love, from last year.

Do you remember the radio - how good it used to be? It still on occasion, in fact it can be great if you go to the right places to listen.

One of my currently favorite radio shows just had its best episode ever. The legendary Scott Walker was a guest on Jarvis Cocker's Sunday Service, where he talked about singing techniques, The Walker Brothers, The Surfaris, Jacques Brel, his solo records and David Bowie.

The two hour program included music from all the aforementioned, as well as Tim Hardin, Richard Hawley, Susanne Sundfør, Frank Sinatra, Miles Davis and more.

The Ninth Wave have been steadily making a name for themselves as one their region's most exciting new bands through their live act, but also through notable accomplishments like winning the Electric Fields festival’s unsigned bands competition and also securing a place at T in the Park’s esteemed T Break stage.

Bringing together an enjoyable fusion of shoegaze and post-punk with experimental and avant garde hints, the quartet's latest single, Reformation, off their forthcoming EP of the same name on Distiller Records, is a noteworthy and exciting start for the Glasgow band, and it comes accompanied by an exquisite music video directed by Ciaran Lyons.

Reformation EP will be available on 10-inch vinyl on September 22nd via Distiller Records.








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Most times a new act comes up following the traditional rock practices with more contemporary twists, it doesn't take long for the whole thing to backlash with boredom, arrogance and pretension. Not with this guy though.

New York-based singer-songwriter, Luke Rathborne, follows his 2015 album, Soft, and single, Losing It, from last year with an excellent new single. Don't Call Me Baby organically and by nature recalls the mellow spirit of Roy Orbison and the songwriting adroitness of Bruce Springsteen, gracefully paralleling to the all-time greats, and executed with sincerity and not a single hint of mimicry or dishonesty.

"You could really feel the history in the room," Rathborne exclaimed concerning the studio where he recorded the song, located in the Chelsea district of Manhattan, the same place where Wu Tang Clan recorded Enter the Wu Tang (36 Chambers) twenty four years ago.



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The Sighs is an excellent power pop band from Massachusetts which goes back as far as the early eighties. In the nineties they released two standout albums for the genre before disbanding and giving way to real life problems with marriages, jobs and kids.

It seems though that the rock 'n' roll spark remained bright for the band, as more than twenty years later, when its members met up to discuss a retrospective release, they ended up writing an entire album of new material.

Wait On Another Day will be the first new record by The Sighs since Different from 1996, and it is due out September 8th on Omad Records. As Tom Borawski, the band's drummer tells us, It's Real, the first single off the upcoming album, "is a ball grabbing, guitar driven song about life, love and misguided enthusiasm!"






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As July 21st draws near, another amazing track off the upcoming five song EP by Nine Inch Nails has been unveiled.

This Isn't The Place is a brilliant slow-burner that drops midway through the upcoming EP, Add Violence, which will be the second of the trilogy of EPs that started with Not The Actual Events a few days before the end of 2016, and will be concluded with the final installment, according to Reznor hopefully before this year's end.

The image above is the EP's not so polished, yet, beautiful back cover.




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