Former Smiths guitarist Johnny Marr has released another single off his debut solo album The Messenger. The third single is “New Town Velocity” (watch video below). The new single will be released next Tuesday with a brand new song “The It-Switch” on the B-side. Two weeks ago Mr. Marr reported he is returning to the U.S. for a 18 date fall tour.
Divine Fits Release 2 Videos
Divine Fits, the American/Canadian supergroup comprised of Britt Daniels (Spoon), Dan Boeckner (Handsome Furs and Wolf Parade), Sam Brown (New Bomb Turks), and Alex Fischel have released videos for the double A-side single “Ain’t That The Way” and “Chained To Love” today. The tracks will be released July 23 on vinyl 12″ and have been available on digital download since June 4. The band performed both of these songs on Conan earlier this summer and was posted in the GoINDEEpMusic Indie On TV 6/3/13 section.
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New Music Tuesday July 16, 2013
The following albums dropped today and are available in your local trendy record stores or on digital download.
Gauntlet Hair “Stills”
The Denver based noise-pop duo returns with their follow-up to the 2011 self-titled debut.
Artist Spotlight: Guards
Every Sunday we take an INDEEp look into an emerging indie artist.
This week we Shine the Sunday Spotlight on Guards.
Guards are a California based indie pop trio comprised of Richie Follin, Loren Humphrey, and the lovely Kaylie Church. Follin who also fronts the garage rock band Willowz formed Guards while playing in his sister Madeline’s band Cults. The Guards frontman is sometimes confused with Cults being his band, but Follin adds, “Cults wasn’t really my band, I was just the guitar player and there to support my little sister and friends. So that was a great release, just to have time away from having to be focused on running everything.”
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Alt-J Release Online Documentary “An American Wave”
U.K. indie rockers Alt-J released an online documentary concert this past Friday night via The Warner Sound. The 54 minute concert (watch below) was filmed at Midland Theater in Kansas City, Missouri. Alt-J (stylised as ∆) recently won the prestigious 2012 Mercury Prize, awarded to the best album released in the U.K. and Ireland annually. The debut full-length An Awesome Wave has remained relevant since its release in September 2012 as the band plays sold out shows world wide.
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Electronic Reunites For 1 Song
Electronic, the supergroup consisting of Bernard Sumner (New Order) and Johnny Marr (The Smiths) reunited over the weekend and performed the song “Getting Away With It” (watch below) during the ex-Smiths opener set.
After passing up a perfect opportunity to reunite at the 2013 Coachella Festival the two chose The Transmissions: Live at Jodrell Bank as the reunion venue. Later in the evening New Order frontman Bernard Sumner announced during their headliner set that:
“We’re going to release new material at some point; it’s going to be the next ‘Sgt. Pepper’s.”
We’ll keep that one on our new music radar…
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Flashback Friday: Peter Murphy
GoINDEEpMusic presents Flashback Friday featuring The Godfather of Goth, Peter Murphy.
Peter Murphy is an English alternative rock solo artists and more importantly the lead singer of the legendary highly influential gothic rock band Bauhaus. The term “gothic rock” has been around since that late sixties however, it wasn’t until the late seventies post-punk gothic movement that the scene began to explode in the U.K. Bands that established and sparked this movement included Joy Division, Siouxsie and The Banshees, The Cure, Echo and The Bunnymen, and Bauhaus. During the movement dark raincoats hit record breaking sales all over the world.
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Thursday August 8 – FOALS – House of Blues – San Diego
GoINDEEpMusic will be out at the House of Blues in beautiful San Diego, Ca. on Thursday August 8 for an evening with FOALS.
The night of fun begins with the punk-pop band Drowners from NYC and concludes with renowned English indie rockers FOALS. Hopefully, the evening provides an opportunity to discuss Heritage Acts with Yannis.
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Franz Ferdinand Shares 2 Songs From Upcoming Album
Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action the first release from Scottish indie rockers Franz Ferdinand in four years is scheduled to drop on August 27. You can listen to two of the tracks from the album below. Franz Ferdinand recently played the two weekend Coachella Festival and both of these tunes made it on the on the setlists in the desert. Apparently both of these songs will be made available for download this coming Tuesday. They’re currently available as a double A-sides 7″ single.
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Can’t Hardly Wait
As I wrote approximately two months ago the Heritage of all Heritage Celebrations would be the one WHEN The Replacements reunite. WHEN happens to be today! The Replacements announced today that they will headline three Riot Fest dates; Toronto (August 24-25), Chicago (September 13-14-15), and Denver (September 21-22).
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