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Ivy League Records are thrilled to announce that Tasmania’s A.Swayze & the Ghosts will release their debut album, Paid Salvation, on Friday 18 September. At a time when some young bands seem more concerned with social media followers than having something to say, Paid Salvation is a refreshingly real breath of fresh air, one that restores your faith in the incendiary, uplifting and subversive power of punk rock.
To celebrate the announce, the band have released the addictive, synth-punk flavoured single ‘Cancer’ along with the video, directed by and featuring the band’s notably charismatic and enigmatic lead singer, Andrew Swayze.
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Bad Cop / Bad Cop’s new studio album The Ride, is out now on Fat Wreck Chords. The Ride was recorded throughout much of 2018 and 2019 by Johnny Carey and Fat Mike (D-Composers), and boasts all of the elements of BCBC’s sound: big guitars, lock-step bass and drums, intricate vocal harmonies, and plenty of attitude.
Listen to The Ride – Youtube, Spotify, Apple Music, Amazon Music
In a time of chronic rage, happiness is revolutionary.
Bad Cop / Bad Cop has done angry. The band’s 2017 full-length, Warriors, was recorded in the aftermath of the 2016 presidential election. The Los Angeles quartet’s new full-length, The Ride (Fat Wreck Chords, June 19th), shows what happens when you come out the other side of that anger.
“It’s not that I am just stoked or blind to suffering,” says singer-guitarist Jennie Cotterill. “I think anger is a legitimate and understandable reaction to injustice and wrongdoing. It’s just that for myself, I am trying to move past ‘reaction’ into productive ‘response.’”
The message BCBC is sending this time around is less about wagging your finger at others, or giving the middle one to the Man, than it is about self-love and acceptance. As Cotterill puts it, “Love is a more powerful truth than anger.” That positivity fuels many of The Ride’s tracks: “Originators,” “Simple Girl,” “Community,” “I Choose,” “Perpetual Motion Machine,” and “The Mirage” exude confidence, gratitude, and compassion. In 2020, such things qualify as contrarian.
“These are political statements—self-love is a huge fucking statement,” affirms singer-guitarist Stacey Dee. “Self-love means putting a fix on the problems at home before trying to fix everything in the world. It’s asking people to find it in themselves to create the life that they really want to have so they’re not in turmoil, so they’re not in a place of stress and sickness.”
Dee speaks from experience. In 2018 she was hospitalised twice for different ailments, then discovered she had stage one breast cancer at the end of the year. Fortunately it was highly treatable, but the experience was life-altering. Dee captures it with brutal frankness on “Breastless,” whose bright melodies belie the struggle described in the lyrics.
“Certain Kind of Monster” and “Pursuit of Liberty”—both written and sung by bassist Linh Le—are blistering repudiations of the current administration’s treatment of immigrants.
The former is an imagined conversation with an ICE agent, and the latter juxtaposes her family’s immigration to the U.S. from Vietnam in 1975 to current events, something she’s never explored musically.
The perspective behind The Ride lends it an undeniable maturity, without losing its power. Recorded throughout much of 2018 and 2019 by Johnny Carey and Fat Mike of production team the D-Composers, the album boasts all of the elements of BCBC’s sound: big guitars, lock-step bass and drums (the latter by powerhouse drummer Myra Gallarza), intricate vocal harmonies, and plenty of attitude.
It’s just that this time, the attitude is encouraging, not raging. Nowhere is that more apparent than lilting album closer “Sing With Me.” Built around acoustic guitar, piano, and Cotterill’s voice, it’s an exhortation to “sing with me / or sing your own song / I don’t mind, just as long as you find / a voice.”
Dee adds, “If people are listening to our songs and they’re going to sing along to them, they’re going to start owning some of those words. And in owning some of those words that gives them some strength and power going forward. That’s really the biggest gift that I could give to anybody.”
“Stronger in every way” aptly describes Bad Cop / Bad Cop in 2020. The anger may have taken a back seat on The Ride, but what’s taken its place is even more powerful.
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Newcomer DUBOSS is a child of the 80’s who is making the feel-good music you need right now. Recently signed to Sony Music, DUBOSS’ fresh, positive and uplifting debut single ‘Voyage, Voyage’ arrives at the perfect time!
Since lockdown started all across Asia in early February, DUBOSS had the vision to produce a song related to one of his passions: travelling. He teamed up with Imanbek to finish his debut single ‘Voyage, Voyage’, a glorious edit of the 80’s hit by Desireless which invites everyone to go on a musical journey despite being at home. “Old good major hits are exactly what gives inspiration to any artist in any period of history”, says Imanbek.
As DUBOSS says himself: “I produced this revival as a tribute to the original song which brings hope and celebrates the freedom to travel. It takes me back to listening to it with my parents when I was a kid and has very positive memories. I hope it can transmit the same type of emotions to people around the world.”
The track channels the sounds of dramatic European pop in its glorious vocal and trance synths, before slamming into a bouncing slap house groove with jaunty melodies creating a playful feel. It’s exactly the sort of joyful music you can expect to hear coming out of the studio of DUBOSS and dominating dancefloors over the next few years.
Calvin Logue debuts on Heldeep Records
with the fierce techno of ‘Resonance EP’
Out now via Heldeep Records
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Title: Live Forever
Label: Self-release
Release date: June 19, 2020
Project 46 pay homage to Avicii on “Live Forever,” which is their fourth single since returning from a 4-year hiatus this year. It delivers all the elements we grew to know and love from one of electronic music’s most prolific names on iconic tracks like “I Could Be The One,” “Fade Into Darkness” and “Crime” Project 46‘s collaboration with Avicii himself from 2013. Opening with organic guitar instrumentals, the Canadian duo eases into uplifting melodies that gradually evolve into a progressive build-up and drop. Combined with hopeful vocals that are characteristic of Avicii‘s music, “Live Forever” will evoke a wonderful nostalgia that brings back the golden age of progressive house.
Canadian duo Ryan Henderson and Thomas Shaw, better known as Project 46, is known for their melodic, progressive sound that never fails to inspire and uplift listeners. They began Project 46 in 2011 and were active until 2016, with releases on Ultra Records, Monstercat, Armada, Mixmash, and collaborations such as “Last Chance” with Kaskade (which was featured on Kaskade‘s “Atmosphere” album), “Collide” with Laidback Luke, “Crime” with Avicii, “Daphne” with Paul Oakenfold, and “Home” with Feenixpawl, to name a few. 2020 marks the comeback of Project 46, and we are looking forward to more beautiful, vocal-driven dance tracks coming from the talented duo later this year!
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I’m gonna sound like a basic Californian female but: Tacos and the Beach. Fuck getting in the water though, but sticking my feet in the sand is next level.
Enjoy the spectacular two-day digital music festival experience together with friends of all ages and places
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There’s something exciting to remember about the different musical undulations Myd has followed over time. Because they all lead to the album he’s about to release. Of course, it all starts with Club Cheval, his original collective with whom he honed and then imposed his talents as a producer and forged his love of club music.
If we stuck to the title of the track « Together We Stand », we would think that Myd has composed a simple declaration of love to the community, that of the party that is free and welcoming, or that of his audience, whom he has met these last months on tour and who were there on every date ready to spread with him the right energies. It’s a bit like that, but when you listen to the choirs better, when you pay attention to the deep voice that guides you and to the rhythms of the song, you feel that the community is also a circle, that holds you together little by little to convince you, without really having a choice, that together we are happy.
Finally with « Together we stand » Myd produces a piece in several shades, which is at times nostalgic, but which is also the culmination of his search for a solar and luminous sound.
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The opening track on EP1, it’s a showcase for the breadth and confidence of The Lazy Eyes, a moment of loosening that collects all the pyrotechnics they’ve crammed into the ‘Cheesy Love Song‘ and ‘Tangerine‘ and allows them room to breathe.
Of the track, the band remark that: “The Seaside is a nostalgic song for us because it’s amongst the earliest songs that the band explored playing together. It was around this time that we were really getting into guitar pedals too and trying to make as full and as exciting a sound we could in a live setting.”
The appropriateness of the full-circle timing is not lost on the band, who share that: “listening back to the recording reminds us of those formative years when we were learning to arrange our songs for a live setting and becoming closer as friends and as a band.”
EP1 by The Lazy Eyes is out now – buy/stream it here.
EP1 TRACKLIST
1. The Seaside
2. Tangerine
3. Cheesy Love Song
4. The Seaside – Edit
5. Cheesy Love Song – Edit
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Perfect Moment, the new project for Alex Gow, reveals a new single today, called Cruel Change Of Heart watch the video here
The video was both directed and edited by Gow, and shot and stitched together in one day in Bendigo. The bushland footage was shot at Vaughan Mineral Springs at dawn, and Gow cleaned out the local pharmacy’s eye drops supplies to use as fake tears on the shoot.
Cruel Change Of Heart is a slice of melancholy indie dance, written by Alex as a challenge to himself: “I set myself a task – write a song in the form of a medical diagnosis… So the patient enters the doctor’s office. Clipboard in hand, the doctor sings: “the results are in, seems you’ve been suffering from a Cruel Change of Heart” Add the drum machine. Add the Latin House bass line. Add the 60’s Love Boat-esque string melody… Dinner is served.” – Alex Gow
Perfect Moment was conjured up by Gow, and recorded in collaboration with Kim Moyes (The Presets), and the self-titled EP will be out late July.
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