New Music: Austra- Home + More Recent Releases

Katie Stelmanis and her goth project Austra have announced the long awaited follow up album to 2011 favourite Feel It Break. The LP is titled Olympia and will be out June 18th on Domino/Paper Bag. Here the first track from the LP, "Home."




A lot of new songs to get to tonight....less talk. more rock.

New J Mascis/Sharon Van Etten duet from the John Denver tribute album "The Music Is You" which is out April 2nd on ATO.  Listen to "Prisoners" below:





Brand new music and video from Vancouver indie rock band The Zolas. Watch the clip for "Escape Artist" below. Taken from the album Ancient Mars which is out now on Light Organ Records.



THE ZOLAS - Escape Artist from Southern Souls on Vimeo.


Swedish synth pop band Kate Boy have released a new clip for their song "In Your Eyes." The track is taken from their EP, Northern Lights, which is out now on IAMSOUND Records. Watch below:

Video- Kate Boy- In Your Eyes


Johnny Jewel synth pop project Glass Candy have released a new track for free download and an accompanying music video. Watch the clip for "The Possessed" and then go and get the free Extended Runway Edit of the track.

Video- Glass Candy- The Possessed





Scottish synth pop buzz band Chvrches have come out with a video for their awesome song "Recover". Watch below:
Taken from the Recover EP which is out March 26th via Glassnote.

Chvrches- Recover


Another new track from dub step soul musician  James Blake, this time with a little help from ambient producer Brian Eno. The track will be on Blake's latest LP, "Overgrown," which is out April 8th via Republic.Records.  Listen to "Digital Lion" below:




Second track from the new Caveman album debuted this week. Stream the beautiful "Over My Head" from their self titled sophomore album which is out April 2nd via Fat Possum.


More to come later.....

MBV Release New Album (Finally) + Other New Music Releases and News

If you haven't heard the news yet (you might be living on the moon), 90's shoegaze genius Kevin Shields and his band My Bloody Valentine have finally, after 22 years, put the finishing touches on their new album m.b.v. The album was released on midnight Saturday (UK time) on their website and after initial problems due to their website crashing, I was finally able to download and listen the LP before midnight (EST). The album is absolutely spectacular and should be deemed mandatory listening for all shoegaze fans.. You can purchase the the album here or listen to the entire record on youtube.

My Bloody Valentine- She Found Now

And speaking of My Bloody Valentine, up and coming Canadian/British artist Rachel Zeffira has recorded a  beautiful acoustic cover of MBV's To Here Knows When for her debut album The Deserters which will be released on March 12th. See the studio recorded video for the track below:

Rachel Zeffira- To Here Knows When

Suede share a new track and video: Watch It Starts and End With You is from their upcoming album, Bloodsports, which is out in March. Watch below:

Suede- It Starts and Ends With You

80's synth pop legends Depeche Mode share a new track and video: Heaven is from the band's forthcoming LP, Delta Machine, out March 26th

Depeche Mode- Heaven

Another great 80's synth pop band Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark share a new track, and music video plus announce a world tour that includes a stop in Toronto on July 11th. Atomic Ranch is taken from the LP English Electric which comes out April 9th.

OMD- Atomic Ranch

Former goth king Nick Cave shares a new video for the track Jubilee Street. The video is directed by Cave's friend John Hillcoat and features English bad ass actor Ray Winstone. The track appears on The Bad Seeds new album Push The Sky Away which is out February 19th.

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds- Jubilee Street

British indie rock band Coves share a great new song and video:

Coves- Last Desire

Tame Impala psychedelic side project POND share a new track: The band have a new album coming out this spring titled Hobo Rocket.



New York indie rock band Caveman share a new track from sophomore LP. In The City will appear on the band's new s/t album, out April 2nd via Fat Possum.


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Finally. so sorry to here about the death of Troggs lead singer Reg Presley. The frontman died today at the age of 71 after suffering from lung cancer. This song is awesome:

The Troggs- I Can't Control Myself