Our weekly playlist of 20 singles from the indie world. Happy Weekend!

Weekend Showcase - April 17th Edition

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Gigs:
April 11th: The Newsagent, Sydney, Australia
April 18th: The Wine Cellar, Auckland, NZ
April 19th: The Rogue Stage, Rotorua, NZ
April 22nd: Moon 1, Wellington, NZ
April 23rd on the Interislander ferry, NZ
April 23rd: Le Cafe, Picton, NZ
April 24th: The Playhouse, Nelson, NZ
April 26th: Wunderbar, Lyttelton, NZ
April 28th: Sherwood, Queenstown, NZ
April 29th: Gin & Raspberry, Wanaka, NZ
April 30th: The Cheeky Llama, Invercargill, NZ
May 1st:Taste Merchants, Dunedin, NZ

May 16th: Sebright Arms, London 
May 23rd: Red Roasters, Brighton
May 27th: Bloc, Glasgow
May 28th: Bannerman's, Edinburgh
May 29th: Liverpool, venue TBC
May 30th: Three Minute Theatre in Manchester
June 4th: The Pavilion in Belfast
June 5th: Roisin Dubh in Galway
June 6th: The Twisted Pepper, Dublin
June 12th: Prachtwerk, Berlin
June 13th: Cafe Montoya, Berlin
August 1st: Storytime Festival, Manchester

Songwriter Hannah Curwood originates from the stark, remote region of Central Otago in New Zealand.

Previously Hannah has released 2 records, Sky Above, Horse Below (2007) and The Blind Love EP (2009). Both received to resounding critical acclaim, tracks such as murder ballad It's Been Snowing All Winter (www.youtube.com/watch?v=LuQK7Z_9Cuc) brought attention to Hannah's use of dark lyrics, twisted imagery and ethereal melody to earn her a place as one of New Zealand's celebrated alternative writers.

Now based in London, Hannah has embarked on a new project, working side by side with Roger O'Donnell of The Cure and a handpicked group of musicians to breathe life into her latest body of work. O'Donnell has supported the band by offering up his country home as a recording base, as well as providing guidance with vocal performance, arrangements and his expertise in synth programming.

The resulting 10 songs bring the likes of P J Harvey, Anna Calvi, Sharon Van Etten, Laura Marling and Smog to mind - delicacy entangled with intensity. The album is currently being mixed by Paul Corkett (The Cure, Nick Cave, Bjork) and will be released in April 2015 on O'Donnell's own label 99X/10 (www.99timesoutof10).

Sweet Release

HD Malibu

Engineered and mixed by Mark Rains at Station House Studios
Mastered by Ed Brooks at RFI Mastering
Miya- guitar, vocals, casio
Josh Grondin- guitar, piano
Jon Engelhard- bass
Cassidy Turbin- drums

Talking with Strangers

If you buy our EP, housetrained unicorns will arrive at your front door! http://rebelkites.bandcamp.com/album/the-witnessing

Thanks to @seanxoleary and @indieshuffle on the premiere: http://www.indieshuffle.com/rebel-kites-atlas-sky-premiere/

Say hey: www.facebook.com/rebelkites

Credits:
Lyrics // Alex Story & Polly Jones 
Music // Alex Story
Arrangement // Rebel Kites
Produced and Engineered by Alex Story
Mixed by Ashley Krajewski
Additional Mixing by Alex Story
Additional Production by Iain Lowery
Mastered at Metropolis by John Davis
Artwork by Simon Fowler / Cataract Publishing

Alex Story - vocals, acoustic guitar, organs, additional electric guitars, additional percussion, plucked piano string
Polly Jones - vocals, violin
Marc Pradas Gene - electric guitar
Richard Blair - Harmonium, Pianos and Extra Percussion
Paul Tyan - Bass
Ed Broad - Drums
Gilo Cheney - Bowed bass
Fran Bury - violin
Iain Lowery - Additional Pianos

© Rebel Kites 2015
www.rebelkites.com

Get in touch:
E:: info@rebelkites.com


Atlas Sky

From the debut album 'A Dream Outside'
Pre-order on www.gengahr.com

Hype Machine - http://goo.gl/8LlhYW

Slated for a June 15th release through Transgressive Records, North London’s Gengahr are pleased to announce their debut album A Dream Outside with new single ‘Heroine’ - their most immediate track to date and another glimpse at what their debut is set to offer.

Picking up where 2014 left off Gengahr marked out their intentions for 2015 with an opening slot on Alt-J’s European tour and the release of the gloriously spellbinding ‘She’s A Witch’, which received acclaim from the likes of The Sunday Times, Independent, DIY and NME whilst being added to playlists on 6Music (C-list), Radio 1 (INMWT), Amazing Radio (A-list) and XFM (evening list).

Now on the dawn of their debut album - recorded and co-produced with James Bragg at Middle Farm Studios - the band are set to follow ‘She’s A Witch’ with new single ‘Heroine’; saccharine pop hooks that knit together the band’s woozier tendencies, marking the track out as one of the tauter moments on A Dream Outside. Led by its bounding bassline, it’s an earworm from the off, and as it descends into the murkier depths of guitarist John Victor’s solo thrashing things take a turn for the gigantic.

Gengahr live dates:

^ w/ Circa Waves
* w/ The Maccabees
† w/ The Strokes

10th April - Sheffield Leadmill ^
11th April - Liverpool O2 Academy ^
13th April - Nottingham Rescue Rooms ^
14th April -Birmingham Library @ Institue ^
16th April - Portsmouth Wedgewood Rooms ^
17th April - London Shepherd’s Bush Empire ^
18th April Festival L'Ere de Rien, Nantes
20th April - Berlin Lido (Pias Nites)
01st May - Amsterdam Melkweg (PIAS Nites)
3rd May Sounds From The Other City, Manchester
11th May - Birmingham Institute *
12th May - Glasgow O2 abc *
13th May - Manchester Ritz *
14th May - London Coronet *
15th May - The Great Escape
16th May - The Great Escape
23rd May - Liverpool Sound City
24th May - Liverpool Sound City
18th June - British Summer Time Hyde †
19th June - Hurricane Festival
20th June - Southside Festival
21st June - Best Kept Secret Festival
3rd July Blissfields Festival
7th July Festival de la Cite, Lausanne
17th July - Latitude Festival
18th July - Longitude Festival
19th July - Melt! Festival
2nd August Y Not Festival
05th September - Soundrive Festival



Heroine

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Grab a free download of our latest EP on BandCamp. Love x

Released on Breathlessness.

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