Such a Rockin' Masterpiece, boys... This is authentic, well produced and just plain ON POINT..!

Dark woom

"Tess is a true believer in the church of rock’n’roll. She has great taste and is really sharp!” - Alan McGee

Tess Parks was born and raised in Toronto but moved to London at seventeen to pursue music and to study photography. She has played solo for the past four years.

Having moved back to Toronto in 2012, she put together her amazing psychedelic backing band of "sexy and talented musicians”, The Good People.
Early in 2013, she self-released a very popular EP ‘Work All Day/Up All Night’
Tess describes her songs as "lo-fi alternative drones with a hypnotic vibe”. Influences include Elliott Smith, friends the Dandy Warhols and all the classics: "I was brought up on Bob Dylan, Nirvana, The Beatles, Rolling Stones and Zeppelin.”

She met Alan McGee in London. "We stayed in touch, that was it really. I just got so lucky. I love Oasis, Jesus and Mary Chain, My Bloody Valentine… He’s affiliated with all of my favourite musicians.”

Tess recorded her album of scuzzy, downbeat psychedelia (think Mazzy Star crossed with The Brian Jonestown Massacre) across the summer. It’s been pre-empted by the release of her debut single proper ‘Somedays’.


Tess Parks - Gates Of Broadway

Wand - Take Me Back To The Void

Your Mission

Gringo and Faux Discx are set to release an expanded version of HOOKWORMS debut EP on CD and digitally on March 4th 2016

Pre-order: http://gringorecords.limitedrun.com/products/566096-hookworms-hookworms-ep-bonus-tracks-cd

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A reissue of a 7 track expanded version of Hookworms 2011 self-titled debut EP off the back of two critically acclaimed albums - 2013's Pearl Mystic on Gringo and 2014's The Hum released worldwide on Domino arm Weird World – is both a marker from where Leeds five-piece have subsequently hurtled forwards from, but also a document and proof of the undeniable character that they've never allowed to waver even as all around them has changed.

The EP contains the first tracks the group ever recorded in vocalist and producer MJ's original Suburban Home Studio, with the group just a handful of local shows into their existence – one such show, supporting Sun Araw lead to its original release.  "It was a very exciting time for us," bassist MB recalls. "MJ having his first studio meant we'd gone from practicing in a tiny basement and receiving noise complaints to having a place where we could do what we wanted. We played with Sun Araw just as we were finishing the EP and Cameron Stallones enjoyed our set and asked to hear any recordings - then subsequently released it on cassette."

Hookworms have long since evolved into a mighty beast, live able to fill cavernous warehouses with a vitriolic form of kosmiche, as when headlining Liverpool Psych Fest, or when supporting fuzzy legends Slowdive during their 2014 comeback. Hookworms as a listen though already has in place several of the traits that have helped elevate them – the strutting bass and four note repetition of Teen Dreams is pure Modern Lovers, mining the group's 60's garage and proto-punk influences and mixing them with a caustic modernity. It's the only track that still makes an occasional appearance live; another highlight is the rolling bass thunder of I Have Some Business Out West crackles with the energy of an approaching storm: "Our gear wasn't as good back then so we did quite a bit of re-amping and post-production," MB comments. "The EP was basically a playground for experimentation with a bunch of new guitar pedals we'd recently acquired."

In addition, the reissue comes with additional early and rare recordings - the drone heavy initial version of Form and Function, which would appear on a split 7" alongside Nottingham-based peers Kogumaza, plus the swaggering rumbles of The Correspondent – which appeared on 2012 Sonic Cathedral compilation Psych For Sore Eyes. The former is a premonition of phase two of the band, foreshadowing the heavier, dense sound around Pearl Mystic; the latter still sounds like a wonderful outlier – which says something for a band whose boundaries have forever stretched towards the horizon.

MJ would also like to take this opportunity to thank everyone for all the support, help and donations he has received after his studio in Leeds was flooded over Christmas. The band had been working on new material at Suburban Home Studios prior to the flood. 

Tracklisting:

Medicine Cabinet
Teen Dreams
I Have Some Business Out West
Resolution
Form and Function (originally released on a split 7" with Kogumaza on Gringo)
Deu (originally released on cassette Spur: Volume One compilation, Magnetic Tapes)
The Correspondent (originally released on Psych For Sore Eyes 7")

HOOKWORMS – Teen Dreams

Brian Jonestown Massacre - Fingertips

High Horse

New EP 'Half' out March 2018!

iTunes: https://itunes.apple.com/us/album/emperor-tho-single/1318357511

Celebrate the catalogue: https://open.spotify.com/artist/1iyEgo06tQEwW0ro4Qys9K

Emperor Tho

SUZIE

Written and Performed by NIGHT OWLS
Mixed/Produced by Mickey Dale
Mastered by James Grover

Better With Age

Taken from their debut album 'Heavy Eyes' (out 24 August). 

Pre-order 'Heavy Eyes' on LP / CD / Download: http://smarturl.it/heavyeyes

Knocking

Any Moment (radio mix)

Imperial Daze - People Are Animals

https://open.spotify.com/track/4DRPgFn6Bqmmd5A7qYTrfi?si=sKWdq9TQSzuI8-gS_7ynlw

Homester

Bubble

Lesser

Following on from 2016's "Ocean Blue" EP and 2018's "September Love" LP, Stockholm's Stephen's Shore are back with a brand new EP entitled "Brisbane Radio".

The lead single is "Brisbane Radio", ”a streets of Stockholm popsong".

Pre-order the limited 7" EP or digital. Link in Bio.

Stephen's Shore - Brisbane Radio

A stylistic sampler of the Mexican Summer / Software Recording Co. catalog

Tamaryn - While You're Sleeping, I'm Dreaming

'Reverb drenched rock n roll'. Brighton.

'Baby Darlin' Sugar' video - https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=71thvcjYYDY

'Stomping, slow-motion riff-rock with snarling vocals and terrace-worthy choruses.' - The Guardian

SUZIE

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