::: e radio: march 2022

March 2022 - best new alternative, punk and indie tracks

https://fortherabbits.net/2022/03/18/five-things-we-liked-this-week-18-03-22/

Five Things We Liked This Week - 18/03/2022

[Weekly Mix] 2022.03 (3)

[UNDER CONSTRUCTION]

Tradacoustic series no. 134

Music, mostly recent, a few days, a few months...

creation: 2022/04/17

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words sometimes mirror what they mean

A selection box of classic, recent and upcoming music from Upset The Rhythm!
http://www.upsettherhythm.co.uk/

UPSET THE RHYTHM

From the new EP: Dust & Debris

As cold as it is catchy and hypnotic armed with pulsating analog synths, staccato drum computer beats and sampled vocals, Raderkraft takes you into a dystopian past, present and future on his third 4-track EP called "Dust & Debris" by treating global world problems such as: the devastating impact of drug addictions; the future existence of our planet due to climate change; the global widespread destruction by nuclear war; and the fear for terrorist attacks.  

The title track “Dust and Debris” describes the 9/11 catastrophe and contains a chronological frightening news report from several media sources telling us what happened that day exactly 20 years ago. With this EBM style track Raderkraft perfectly catches the incomprehension and fear that shocked the world that day.

Digital available on bandcamp:

12" Vinyl (Limited edition) available from June 22 @ Wave Tension Records, pre-order: https://wavetensionrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dust-debris

Dust & Debris

Dust and Debris

Raderkraft takes you into a dystopian past, present and future on his third 4-track EP called "Dust & Debris" by treating global world problems such as: the devastating impact of drug addictions; the future existence of our planet due to climate change; the global widespread destruction by nuclear war; and the fear for terrorist attacks. 
The title track “Dust and Debris” describes the 9/11 catastrophe and contains a chronological frightening news report from several media sources telling us what happened that day exactly 20 years ago. With this EBM style track Raderkraft perfectly catches the incomprehension and fear that shocked the world that day.

Release date: June 22nd, 2021

Grab your vinyl copy here: (Limited edition)
https://wavetensionrecords.bandcamp.com/album/dust-debris
https://bordelloaparigi.com/.../raderkraft-dust-debris-ep/

Listen to it here:
https://open.spotify.com/album/2sNN3GOPu07kjphm4IU9xi

Credits / tnx to:
Mixing / mastering : Zorko Opacic
Artwork: Styn Dirkx
Distribution: Bordello A Parigi
Wavetensionrecords: Marc Frijns

Greta's Speech

Crack Epidemic

Fingerlicking

No Blood

Taken from "Interior Escapes " LP
Released: July 29, 2021

SUPPORT THE MUSICIANS
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Cosey Mueller - Immer Das Gleiche

"Queen of Cowboys" by Kindsight, released March 11 2022.
From debut LP "Swedish Punk", out March 25. Pre-order - ramalama.se/swedishpunk

Listen on Spotify, Apple Music, Tidal etc.: https://ffm.to/queenofcowboys
Listen/buy on Bandcamp: https://kindsightkindsight.bandcamp.com/album/swedish-punk-lp
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Stream / Buy

Kindsight - Queen Of Cowboys

Looking For Space

F.E.A.R.

Tidal River

Taken from the 'Why That Doesn't Surprise Me' LP + CD co-released by Matinée Recordings and Lost and Lonesome

Why That Doesn't Surprise Me

The Great Dividing Range

The Lucksmiths - The Great Dividing Range

A silly little tune about feeling awkward

Moodlighting - Ahead Of Myself

Mannequin Man

"Dark Places marks the beginning of a new perspective on how I view the world alongside music. Feelings of nostalgia have overcome many of us, including me in the past two years and I wanted to explore that realm through this song. After hearing the initial vocal demo, I immediately knew that I wanted to draw inspiration from brooding, moody and dark influences and Kwesi's haunting voice and lyrics offer a glimpse of hope that I molded the instrumental production around." - Manila Killa

"We have choices to make every day and sometimes, the mind can go to dark and strange places that are often unhealthy and destructive," said Kwesi.  "At one point or another, we find ourselves scared and confused about the past and what it means for the future.  This song is about finding our way out of that darkness and working to be better for ourselves and those around us every day." -  Kwesi

Listen everywhere else, here: https://ffm.to/manilakilladarkplaces
Watch the visualizer, here:  https://youtu.be/gTtxIkkfjKw

Dusk, my debut album dropping July 21st. 
Pre-save, here: https://ffm.to/manilakilla

See me on my debut album tour!
Tix @ manilakilla.com
9/16/2022 - Denver, CO - Bluebird
9/17/2022 - Salt Lake City, UT - Soundwell
9/23/2022 - Bellingham, WA - Wild Buffalo
9/24/2022 - Portland, OR - Doug Fir Lounge
9/30/2022 - Chicago, IL - Lincoln Hall
10/1/2022 - Detroit, MI - El Club
10/6/2022 - Boston, MA - Royale
10/7/2022 - Toronto, ON - Velvet Underground
10/8/2022 - Philadelphia, PA - Foundry
10/14/2022 - New York, NY - Webster Hall
10/15/2022 - Washington, DC - 9:30 Club
11/4/2022 - Dallas, TX - Deep Ellum Art Co
11/5/2/2022 - Austin, TX - The Venue
11/11/2022 - Oakland, CA - The Fox Theater
11/12/2022 - Los Angeles, CA - The Novo

Follow Manila Killa: 
Instagram: https://instagram.com/manilakillamusic/ 
Twitter: https://twitter.com/manilakilla 
Facebook: https://facebook.com/manilakilla/ 
YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/c/ManilaKillaMusic 
TikTok: https://tiktok.com/@manilakilla

Follow Kwesi:
Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/kwesiiiiiiii/
Twitter: https://twitter.com/kwesiscreams
Tiktok: https://www.tiktok.com/@lifeiskwesi

Mixed by: Durante
Mastered by: Tim Biesta
Video by: Tak Kamihagi
Photo + Art by: John Liwag / sstrikess

Dusk

Dark Places (feat. Kwesi)

stream my album  🌅

Manila Killa - Dark Places (feat. Kwesi)

The first single from the new EP.

We're on tour!

We'll play at SXSW in Austin
16.03 Austin SXSW @ Hotel Vegas at Volstead
17.03 Austin SXSW @ Esther’s Follies 
18.03 Austin SXSW @ International Day Stage at Brush Square Park

More dates
25.03 Stockholm - Kulturhuset / Stadsteatern
07.04. Berlin - Prachtwerk

Support Act for Shout Out Louds:
19.06. Hamburg - Gruenspan
20.06. Berlin - Festsaal Kreuzberg
21.06. Köln - Gloria
22.06. Darmstadt - Centralsation
23.06. München - Freiheitshalle
24.06. Wien - Arena
25.06. Dresden - Beatpol
26.06. Hannover - MusikZentrum 


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Soundcloud @viviiofficial
Website https://viviiofficial.com/

Wrap Your Arms

Stream 'Asking For A Friend' here: https://listen.niceguysrecords.com/asking-for-a-friend

Hector Gachan is back to the Nice Guys family with his sophomore album Care 2 Share. The first introduction to this exciting release is ’Asking For A Friend’. The Bosnian singer now living in Edinburgh mentions the struggles of loneliness and homesickness under the cover of pop-like synths, and a catchy rhythm that turns sorrow in a sweet and sour dream. This song will be your happy place, and bonus, the song comes with a colourful clip that will transport you directly into the artist’s world.

Care 2 Share

Asking For a Friend

Stream

Hector Gachan - Asking For A Friend

Lyrics:

It was late that night
Think that's what you said
Could not believe the apathy
Of all the words that left
Your frowning mouth that I used to kiss
When it was right-side up
Before things came to this

Heavy hearts only break in two
They don't shatter like the rest do
It's like they might grow back together
Nobody ever warned me
Bout those days when new found glory
"Hit or Miss" was on every mix
When that chorus hits, it's a sob story

It's a sob story

It was late that night
In the pouring rain
Could not believe the agony 
Inside my mind as you explained
Your frowning mouth that I used to kiss
When it was right-side up
Before things came to this

Heavy hearts only break in two
They don't shatter like the rest do
It's like they might grow back together
Nobody ever warned me
Bout those days when new found glory
"Hit or Miss" was on every mix
When that chorus hits, it's a sob story

It's a sob story x4

Heavy hearts only break in two
They don't shatter like the rest do
It's like they might grow back together
Nobody ever warned me
Bout those days when new found glory
"Hit or Miss" was on every mix
When that chorus hits, it's a sob story

Heavy hearts only break in two
They don't shatter like they used to
It's like they might grow back together
Nobody ever warned me
Bout those days when new found glory
"Hit or Miss" was on every mix
When that chorus hits, it's a sob story

A Sob Story

Dr Pong is available to stream now: https://orcd.co/ybv6ajk

SOUVENIRS

Dr Pong

Pale Blue Eyes - Dr Pong

Stream 'Butterfly Eyes' here: https://listen.niceguysrecords.com/butterfly-eyes

Pasiflorez is releasing an LP very soon and the band is teasing its listeners with their next single ‘Butterfly Eyes’. The band from Byron Bay, Australia made this opening track staying true to their psychedelic and indie roots. The song is an invitation to dream, thanks to enveloping guitar chords and the reverberated, mesmerizing vocals.

Passion Flower

Butterfly Eyes

Pasiflorez - Butterfly Eyes

paul blart mall cop

Hatred Is a Passion Of Theirs

Naturally

I Don't Think About You

I Don't Think About You (feat. Megan Siebe)

Naarm/Melbourne 4-piece screensaver is back with a double A-side 7-inch single just 6-months after delivering their 10-track debut album Expressions of Interest on Upset the Rhythm to positive international response. See praise for the record on Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll, KEXP, and Post Trash. The album has also been a regular feature on Henry Rollin’s KCRW Santa Monica radio show.

The band return with two distinctly different tracks that extend upon the blend of post-punk, new wave and synth-punk on their debut. Side A, Clean Current is a burst of high-energy: nervy guitars and groovy base underpinned with krautrock drums and cosmic synth noise, overlayed with delay heavy vocals. Repeats is the flipside of the coin, a moody post-punk stomper, led by gritty saw tooth synth, chorus-soaked guitar, textural percussion and soaring vocals. Lyrically Clean Current spits out retorts aimed at the engulfing nature of anxiety whilst Repeats critiques the repetition of modern life, languishing human existence.
Clean Current nods it’s head to likes of Snapper and 80s Flying Nun bands whilst Repeats owes it origins more to the progenitors of goth-rock.


Website: https://screensaver.bandcamp.com/music

Clean Current

Overgrown

St Dukes- Overgrown

Apogee

Available at https://sovate.bandcamp.com/track/helix

Helix

SIDE A

"Vital / Highlights" will be out March 11th via @StratfordCt

Buy Now

Vital

Go Go Go

Another piece from the forthcoming Jack J LP on Mood Hut Records. The full album releases on April 5th 2022. Vinyl to follow. 

Pre-order on Bandcamp: https://jackj.bandcamp.com/album/opening-the-door

Jack J - I Saw Fire

Harrison & TOBi – Outta This World

Esta canción de Luis Gómez-Escolar cantada por la entonces niña Carmen Pascual es una preciosidad.  Me encantan estas burradas compuestas a sueldo que acaban adquiriendo una dimensión especial en bocas de pequeña criaturitas.

Carmen Pascual - Pompa De Jabón

Recorded in a suburban attic outside Philadelphia; mixed and mastered in Argentina by Rodrigo Torqui
Sam Thacker - Guitars, bass, vocals
Jacob Slous - (remote) drums

Small Life

From the "Hey There Flower" LP by Tony Jay, released by Mt.St.Mtn. on May 6, 2022, MTN-35

Hey There Flower

Tony Jay - The Portal

Today we’re sharing another soaring single from Quinie’s new album ‘Forefowk, Mind Me’ (out May 23rd). ‘Col My Love’ is the very first track on the album, and it’s a powerful song to sing, accompanied by some epic pipes too. Quinie explains that the words “warn of the dangers of being close to the shoreline. I thought it would be a good fit with this footage of me and Maisie trying to navigate one of the challenges on one of our walks. Perhaps not quite as scary as being jailed on a cliff top, but nevertheless an adventure.” 

Enjoy!
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VIDEO: https://youtu.be/-P5lqfcU_eU

Quinie - 'Col My Love'

Me Lost Me returns today with the second miraculous single from their forthcoming album ‘This Material Moment’ (out June 27th through Upset The Rhythm). 

‘A Painting of the Wind’ is an astonishing song that we’ve loved in Jayne’s set for a while, it grapples with how artists try to express the inexpressible and how art is used as a means of escape and fantasy. The track is streaming everywhere now and is accompanied by this exquisite landscape portal of a video filmed at Raby Castle by Amelia Read: 

https://youtu.be/9wXGX8D0eoA

‘This Material Moment’ can be pre-ordered on Bandcamp and our very own webshop too.
We all love to be carried away!
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🎨🌬️🎨🌬️🎨🌬️🎨🌬️🎨🌬️🎨🌬️🎨🌬️

Music by Jayne Dent with double bass by John Pope and clarinet by Faye MacCalman Engineered, produced and mixed by Sam Grant at Blank Studios, Newcastle upon Tyne Mastered by Mikey Young

Me Lost Me - 'A Painting of the Wind'

It’s almost obligatory to release a folk song on May Day, but here we are on May 2nd still bringing in the May! Enjoy Quinie’s evocative new single ‘Sallow Buckthorn’ out now. It’s a mesmeric sea of swirling sound and Scots poetry.

Full video: https://youtu.be/Zoge5FKvJz0

“Ye micht o thought the sallow buckthorn, Ne’er a hairst could hain”
("You might have thought the buckthorn would be so pale, that no harvest could hold it.”)


‘Sallow Buckthorn’ is featured on Quinie’s forthcoming album ‘Forefowk, Mind Me’ out on Upset The Rhythm on May 23rd. 

Available to pre-order on LP with a risograph lyric print + magical book: https://upsettherhythm.bigcartel.com/

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Quinie - 'Sallow Buckthorn'

'Ancient Summer' by Me Lost Me, taken from the forthcoming album 'This Material Moment', out June 27th on Upset The Rhythm.

https://www.melostme.com/
https://upsettherhythm.co.uk/

Ancient Summer

Cor Blimey! On August 15th Upset The Rhythm will release a split 7” EP by Linda Smith and The Smashing Times. Both based in Baltimore and both best buds, this record celebrates that friendship sharing two new tracks by each act; united by DIY spirit, a bedroom-pop sensibility and now a puddle of black vinyl. Today you can witness their tea-based, umbrella-powered advertisement, listen to Linda’s track ‘So Long Ago’ (streaming through the digital ether) and even choose to pre-order the coveted disc yourself from our Bandcamp or UTR webshop: https://upsettherhythm.co.uk/
 
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Songwriter Linda Smith has a gentle but unconventional experimental style that continues to evolve as she adds new entries to her storied catalogue. Smith’s pioneering work with four-track production in the '80s found her at the beginning of a home-recording movement that would set the pace for the decades of indie rock that followed. During this most active period, Smith's music was limited mostly to obscure cassette and 7" releases. This trailblazing time was recently revisited on Captured Tracks’ compilation ‘Till Another Time: 1988-1996’. Shortly after Smith’s retrospective, she teamed up with like-mind and collaborator Nancy Andrews to release an album of beguiling pop entitled ‘A Passing Cloud’ (2023). The duo performed songs from that record at Upset The Rhythm’s 20th anniversary party at Café OTO that same year. 2024 saw further reissues of Smith’s music including Nothing Else Matters (1995) and I So Liked Spring (1996).
 
The Smashing Times are a premier East Coast Pop Experimental Group. They have also gleefully performed in London for Upset The Rhythm twice in quick succession. Known for their dogtooth style, waggish mod attitude and tumbledown sound, The Smashing Times have holes in their socks and sit idly between The Kinks and Tori Kudo. Their previous albums on K Records, Perennial and Meritorio are a cherished commodity steeped in Paisley psych and slapdash panache. 
 
This split 7” EP comprises 4 new tracks. Two from Linda Smith in keyboard-warble anthem mode and two low-fidelity daytrips by The Smashing Times. It will be released on 500 black vinyl 7”s by Upset The Rhythm on August 15th 2025.

Linda Smith - 'So Long Ago'

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