September 2021 | Music Junkie Press

Skinny Lister share video for their new song “Damn The Amsterdam”

September 8, 2021

Skinny Lister are back! Their fifth studio record “A Matter Of Life & Love” will be out October 22nd via Xtra Mile Recordings. They recently released a video for the first single “Damn The Amsterdam (feat. The Longest John)”. The single is a return to the original roots-sound of Skinny Lister. The song is about the famous shipwreck in Hastings and is a straight Sailors Shanty, which reflects the style and stomp of “John Kanaka” from their first album “Forge & Flagon”. The new album “A Matter Of Life & Love” was written over the last 18 months and is essentially a collection of true stories and feelings that were truly ‘important’ to the band. The record contains all the typical invigorating stories from the streets, which have made Skinny Lister a festival-legend, from disturbing tour stories, in which they were stopped by the Bavarian police (“Bavaria Area”) to full throttle-airport-booze-songs (“Breakfast At Heathrow”); if you dig deeper, you’ll find a record, that will probably be their most personal and profound album so far. “A [Read More]

Bearings release new song “Get The Need”

September 8, 2021

Bearings have released a new song, “Get The Need”. It was written with Kamtin Mohager of The Chain Gang of 1974 and Marshall Gallagher of Teenage Wrist. The song will feature on the release of a deluxe version of their Courtney Ballard (Good Charlotte, Waterparks) produced album, “Hello, It’s You”, out 15 September through Pure Noise Records. Additionally, the deluxe version of the critically acclaimed record features 4 additional songs – see tracklisting below. The band previously released a cover version of Harry Styles “Golden” featuring Ryan Woods. “Making these songs was sort of throwing it back to where we started”, says Dougie Cousins (singer). “All of us in a room recording music and having beers. Guitars, bass, drums and a bit of singing. Had to remind people we can still rock”. Guitarist Ryan Fitz continues: “Recording these songs was a really different process than any way we’ve ever created music for Bearings before. It was probably the most “DIY” recording process we’ve done in our professional career as a band. Everyone came down to [Read More]

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Avatar release two new songs – US tour has started!

September 3, 2021

Melodic Death Metal band Avatar released two new songs this week “Going Hunting”, which comes with a video and “Barren Cloth Mother”. The songs couldn’t be any more different. While “Going Hunting” is starting out with a piano and slowly builds up into a powerful track, “Barren Cloth Mother” definitely shows the heavier side of the band. The new releases came just in time for the tour start in the US. Avatar will be out on the road in the States until October 18th. Make sure to catch them live at a place near you. European fans will have to wait a few months longer. Avatar will be back there in early 2022. For more information on the band, follow their social media: https://www.facebook.com/avatarmetal https://avatarmetal.com/ https://twitter.com/avatarmetal https://instagram.com/avatarmetal https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCyaPf0E-PRRZH3UvvxNPeEw

The Last Gang – new single “Gimme Action!” out now!

September 3, 2021

After the release of the album title track “Noise Noise Noise“, California based Punk Rock band The Last Gang around singer/guitarist Brenna Red, introduced a second track “Gimme Action!”. The band commented: “”Gimme Action!” is lyrically inspired by La Mulatresse Solitude and the protest, that swept through the cities all over the world after the murder of George Floyd. The song is a war cry for real, sensible actions and changes in the fight against systemic rassism, police brutality and social injustice.” You can stream the new song here. The upcoming The Last Gang longplayer “Noise Noise Noise” was produced with the help of Fat Mike (NOFX), Yotam Ben Horin (Useless ID) and Cameron Webb and will be released October 8th via Fat Wreck. The album can be pre-ordered here. Track list: 1. Noise Noise Noise 2. WFTW 3. Prosthetic Lost Cause 4. Shameless 5. Panic Dreaming 6. Gimme Action 7. New Skin 8. Paris Green 9. Intelligence Is A Plague 10. To The King For more information on the band, follow [Read More]

VIDEO PREMIERE: Singer/Songwriter Erika Grapes releases powerful video for “Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby”

September 3, 2021

Singer/Songwriter Erika Grapes is from Milan, Italy. After a long time devoted to writing poetry as an existential tool to survive hardship and challenges, followed by a decade in the music industry promoting other musicians, Grapes is now out with the debut single Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby. Although being a songwriter, also, Erika decided for her debut single as a solo artist to cover the famous Dream Pop hit “Nothing’s Gonna Hurt You Baby” by Cigarettes After Sex, adding an electronic/trip hop vibe to it, created by the artist and producer Lorenzo Montaná (Tying Tiffany, TTL). Grapes explains about the song, “This song comes in a time of loss and awareness, a very emotional stage in my life and while singing it, I felt the need to pour in the black and the white simultaneously. The nihilism, the pain, as well as well as the mystical hope and perception of warmth from the universe, a bigger and mysterious picture.” Video The powerful and compelling video was filmed in Swansea, Wales by director and artist Alfie Scheinman, shot partly at [Read More]

Don Broco share brand new single “Uber”

September 3, 2021

Don Broco have released their new single “Uber“, taken from the forthcoming new album “Amazing Things”, which will be released on the 17th September via Sharptone Records. “Uber” is a huge neon-fuelled anthem brimming with biting guitars, dream-like synths, and irresistible stirring vocals. The track is lyrically informed by their time in America, the result of and a reaction to a number of shocking situations that the band found themselves in. “This was the first song we started writing for the album a few years ago touring the States”, says the band. “Within the space of a week three separate ‘Uber’ drivers were openly racist in front of us, I guess assuming as white guys we’d share their views. ‘Uber’ is about being angry about that, being angry that racists seem to be growing in confidence to speak their hate in public and it’s a reminder to me to call out that discrimination whenever I see it”. The new single follows the release of the captivating and immersive single “One True Prince“, a luscious musical [Read More]

Blood Youth release new track “Colony3”

September 3, 2021

Blood Youth have released another brand new track, titled “Colony3”. Earlier this week, vocalist Kaya Tarsus announced his impending departure from Blood Youth and that the two Slam Dunk Festival shows will be his last performances with the band. These are certainly not to be missed. You can read his full statement here. A new vocalist will be revealed soon, just in time for their upcoming UK tour in September 2021. Blood Youth shine as one of UK Metal’s brightest talents. Blending bile with beauty, the quartet creates an intense sonic experience that is unmistakably their own, effortlessly switching from pummelling, groovy riffs to soaring, melodic choruses, interwoven with a raw, lyrical depth that draws from personal experiences. Known for their captivating live shows, the band has won over fans across the continent after sharing stages with Prophets Of Rage, While She Sleeps, Architects and Bury Tomorrow, and wowing crowds with incendiary performances at Reading & Leeds and Download. Iridescent and resilient, Blood Youth have earned a legion of dedicated followers and have firmly established [Read More]