Alt-Pop Act Rlyblonde Drops New Single, ‘Dumb Blonde’

rlyblonde – the project of Brooklyn-based multidisciplinary artist Carina Allen has dropped her new single, “Dumb Blonde,”.

Teeming with buzzy guitar riffs and clever, confessional lyricism, “Dumb Blonde” is a wholly addictive pop-rock anthem. 

The song follows rlyblonde’s inner monologue as she fights against the little voice in the back of her head that tells her everything is just a moment away from falling apart. “Life is unpredictable,” rlyblonde quips. “One day you’re on top of the world, the next day you’re having a meltdown…you’re never going to hit a point where you stop facing challenges, especially as an artist. So when things ARE good, you might as well enjoy it, even if it’s just for one night.”

Check out ‘Dumb Blonde’ below.

Ella Galvin Drops New Single & Video For ‘The Way It Goes’

Rising New York Artist Ella Galvin has dropped her new single, ‘The Way It Goes’.

This comes with the announcement of her debut EP, ‘The Way It Goes,’ out June 14th.

Combining soulful vocals, catchy pop hooks, and grooving rock instrumentation, “The Way It Goes” upholds Ella’s penchant for eluding genre limitations. “‘The Way It Goes’ is a song about going back and forth between wanting to see your ex and not wanting to reopen those wounds again and risk being disappointed,” says Ella.

Taking influence from pop, soul, jazz and rock, Ella’s songs showcase her fondness for experimentation and innovation. Her upcoming EP, ‘The Way It Goes,’ masterfully combines her genre-blending musical influences with diaristic storytelling that explores themes of love, loss, and self-identity. Across the EP’s 6-tracks, Ella captures the charm, growing pains and introspection she’s experienced as a young, queer woman trying to make it in New York City.

Check out ‘The Way It Goes’ below.

Indie Legend Babybird Announces UK Shows

Babybird is set to play a handful of UK shows later this month.

Musical life started with the mid 90s with his lo-fi years, consisting of five Stephen Jones solo albums ‘I WAS BORN A MAN’ through to ‘DYING HAPPY’ – a life cycle, released in a nine month period.

Babybird is an odd one, deceptively sweet and cute in name, but happily for Stephen Jones, it hides something darker growing inside the fluff. Imagine the David Lynch ‘Blue Velvet’ mechanical bird.

After many TV shows and world tours, including 6 or 7 appearances on TFI Friday and playing TOTP three times, Babybird released 9 Top 40 hits, a gold single and album.

Then with the recent help of Johnny Depp, Stephen recorded two albums in LA, Johnny playing guitar on both, then going onto direct the video “UNLOVEABLE”.

His song “THE F-WORD” has featured on 13 series of the Gordon Ramsey show. He has had music featured on Dom Joly’s ‘Trigger Happy TV’, ‘Vic and Bob’ shows, and recently on ‘Paul and Bob’s Gone Fishing’ show. Stephen consequently remained friends with Paul, with the pair drawn together by their health issues…

Six years ago Stephen had a heart attack, all whilst releasing over 150 albums on Bandcamp; the phenomenal site that he cites as giving him complete freedom outside of the music business, to persist and meddle.

Most recently a Babybird song featured on the Margot Robbie produced movie ‘Saltburn’.

It cannot be stressed enough, how extremely unusual this all is.

With new dates in store for May 2024, check out the touring dates below.

May 2024

MAY 22 LIVERPOOL EBGBS
MAY 23 MANCHESTER Factory
MAY 24 LEEDS Wardrobe
MAY 28 BRISTOL Exchange
MAY 29 BRIGHTON Dust
MAY 30 MARGATE Lido
MAY 31 LONDON 100 Club

The Iconic Masters Of Reality Drop First New Single In 15 Years

The iconic Masters of Reality have returned with their first new music in 15 years!
Sugar is hypnotic, poignant and vulnerable, it builds from a stirring melody into a grand, orchestrated swell of emotion, with Goss’s ethereal yet soulful voice floating over the top of it. Sugar itself dates back to 2006, though it has been through many incarnations and iterations since before Goss added a chorus that had been rattling around the back of his brain since 1995. “As it developed, Sugar revealed an inner will to become less esoteric and more directly personal,” he says.

Chris Goss is one of the elusive geniuses of American music. As the singer, guitarist and driving force behind Masters Of Reality, he’s spent more than 40 years charting his own musical journey, travelling from mystical blues to desert rock to psychedelia-edged beauty via all points in between. Where others follow the pack, this desert-dwelling California native has forged a career like no other. A desire to follow his own artistic muse and not bow to external pressures has resulted in a string of albums that sound like no one else but Masters Of Reality, subtly yet indelibly leaving a mark on the generations of musicians who heard them.

Talking about Sugar further, he says, “It’s a complete, emotionally based story instead of my usual, covertly whispered list of what’s wrong with the world’s tragic trajectory. Finally the lyric gelled, reflecting on intelligent women trying to find their place somewhere in the mess. Not in the modern media’s social strata angle as a percentage number to create ratings by directing a ruse to a large demographic, but a real picture of what real people feel. The inner emotional reality of one life and its relevance to many lives.” 

Check out the new single, ‘Sugar’ below.

Oso Oso Drop Bouncy New Track, ‘All Of My Love’

Oso Oso have shared a glimpse of their upcoming fifth studio album in the form of bouncy new single ‘All Of My Love’.

Speaking on the creation of ‘All Of My Love’, the band’s Jade Lilitri has shared:

“When I’m singing with an acoustic guitar at home, my dog thinks I’m crying or something and doesn’t like it and will do everything in his power to stop it.

“I was writing this song one day and he was doing his usual crying and pleading to get me to stop. Then I started singing this chorus at him and that was the birth of this song.”

Check out the new track below.

Dark Divine Share New Track, ‘Burn The Witch’

Dark Divine have shared their first new music since 2023 debut album, ‘Deadly Fun’, in the form of their hard hitting single ‘Burn The Witch’

The track was produced by Zach Jones (Chelsea Grin, We Came As Romans, Fit For A King).

Speaking on ‘Burn The Witch’, lead singer Anthony Martinez has shared:

“‘Burn the Witch’ is a song about the realisation that sometimes toxicity has a lasting affect on one’s personality. 

“Even though we may separate from toxicity, it doesn’t mean that it hadn’t turned us into the very thing that we tried to separate from. Sometimes we turn into the very evil that we are defending ourselves from in order to defend ourselves from said evil.” 

Check the video for ‘Burn The Witch’ below.

Like Moths To Flames Share New Video For ‘Over The Garden Wall’

To celebrate the release of their new album, ‘The Cycles of Trying To Cope’, Like Moths To Flames have shared an eerie music video for ‘Over The Garden Wall’. 

Released today (May 10), each track on the album is said to represent a different part of the cycles of trying to cope.

‘The Cycles of Trying To Cope’ is out now via UNFD.

Speaking about the album, vocalist Chris Roetter has shared: 

“The record encapsulates the many varying emotions we go through when trying to grow through life. 

“The last few years, I really tried to harness some of those emotions as a catalyst to get through whatever I was going through at the time.

“I think we all have our own unique ways to cope and these are mine.”

Check out the video for ‘Over The Garden Wall’ below.

Hippie Trim Share New Single, ‘Dog Days’

Hippie Trim have shared their new single, ‘Dog Days’

“‘Dog Days’ is about leaving the past behind and starting a new chapter in life. Life often forces you to deal with different situations and the song tells the story of the moment you realize that things will never be the same again,” HIPPIE TRIM comment.

Reflecting on their journey so far, HIPPIE TRIM’s rise has been nothing short of meteoric. Following the success of their debut single “Supersonic,” the band quickly gained momentum, selling out their first show and subsequently joining DRUG CHURCH on their German tour. Their debut album, “Cult,” showcased a unique fusion of heaviness and melody, earning them acclaim from both fans and critics.

Check out ‘Dog Days’ below.

Rum Jungle Release New Video For ‘Did The Morning Let You Down’

Australia’s most laid back band Rum Jungle have dropped a new music video, ‘Did The Morning Let You Down’

Marking the first instalment of new music for 2024, this year is set to be an explosive time for the band, having already sold out London, Bristol and Manchester shows and with performances lined up at The Great Escape, FOCUS in Wales and A Stones Throw Festival in Newcastle.

On the back end of one of the biggest and most eventful years the band had seen, the four took their high spirits and bunkered down at Sonora Studios for a week; a holiday full of cheap barbecue lunches, scary cocktails and intense late nights to create an honest display of sonic melodies that reflect proudly the good spirits of the session. Thanks to the long days with engineer Jack Nigro, and even longer nights with Tasker, the world now has another reason to be excited about Rum Jungle, as they have released their latest single, showcasing the wonder and cohesion that the band embodies.

‘It is with a huge amount of gratitude that we present to you all, a song in which we had the most fun we have ever had whilst recording’ adds Frazer from the band.

Benny says about the track; ‘You’d be lying to yourself if there hasn’t been a morning in your life that you’ve not been stoked with the events of the night before or something’s weighing you down and that morning it hits you hard. Mistakes get made, shit goes wrong, everything’s tough for everyone in their own relative state. What this one is about though is pickin’ up and rollin’ on and understanding the world is the way it is, and finding that thing or person or reason to charge on with some sonic stability.’

Check out ‘Did The Morning Let You Down’ below.

All Ears Avow Drop New Single, ‘Bird On A Wire’

All Ears Avow have dropped a new single, ‘Bird On A Wire’

The new track produced by the band’s own vocalist and guitarist Claire Sutton with a video also self-produced by the band.

Sutton says “Bird On A Wire is a song that practically wrote itself in the space of a short afternoon. I found myself in a headspace of just feeling rather sick of what the human race – our species that’s meant to be so intelligent – was capable of. Maybe I’d gotten particularly caught up watching the news that morning. It was everything from the absolute atrocities going on across the world, the wars, mass murder, school shootings, climate change, animal cruelty, human cruelty – and how so often we just look the other way and keep going about our business as if we don’t even notice our world is on fire around us. This song doesn’t come from a place of self virtue, more of shock at the entire situation, guilt and powerlessness. I love the metaphor of a ‘bird on a wire’ to encompass what this song is about, because most of us are all so safe on our perch, but if we were to take one step in the wrong direction it could have catastrophic consequences. It means, however good we’ve got it, we should be minding our actions. We are all complicit and actions have consequences.” 

Check out ‘Bird On A Wire’.

Foreign Hands Release New Single, ‘Horror Domain’

Foreign Hands are set to release their debut album, What’s Left Unsaid, on June 21st via SharpTone Records. Working with producer Will Putney (Knocked Loose, Vein.fm), the metalcore band have crafted ten songs of creative chaos that build off emotion.

Having already shared the frenetic single ‘God Under Fingernails,’ the band now show off their melodic side on ‘Horror Domain,’ while still keeping things heavy. Clean vocalist and guitarist Jack Beatson’s silky delivery meets lead vocalist Tyler Norris’ caustic screams, making for a dynamic contrast. The instrumentals sway just as flawlessly, moving from hooky guitars to crashing drums with an intense breakdown for good measure. 

On the lyrics, Norris states:
“It’s about wishing you were someone else other than yourself. Despite how bad you may want it, there’s a sense of fear for that kind of change.”

Check out the single, ‘Horror Domain’ below.

Bloodstock Festival Adds 15 Bands To Its Lineup

Bloodstock have announced 15 new names to their EMP stage line-up.

Formerly the Jagermeister Stage, the EMP Stage will boast fifteen bands who are making waves in the heavy metal right now. Among the names joining the lineup are tech/death squad Lost Brethren, doom-fused heavyists Flamebearer, celtic punk squad The Callowgate Murders, heavy blues rockers King Kraken and ‘fantasy space metal riff machine’ Warpstormer.

Lethal Evil, Crowley, MAB, Public Execution, Parting With Origin, and Rupcha Farms have also been added to the billing, as have Lurcher, Goblin Smoker, Yersin and Loyds Trip.

Regarding the new collaboration, EMP has shared:

“We are absolutely thrilled to announce our partnership with BLOODSTOCK 2024! As proud sponsors of the 4th stage, EMP is ready to rock alongside the best in metal. Stay tuned for exciting giveaways and exclusive content in the lead-up to the festival. As Europe’s #1 for music, films & TV, gaming merchandise & alt fashion, EMP is honoured to be part of the UK’s biggest independent Metal Festival and can’t wait to join forces with BLOODSTOCK to make history on the EMP STAGE!”

Check out the full festival poster below.