June is here and after last week’s Camden Rocks Special guest edited by Nine Black Alps the New Tunes Guide returns to type this week with highlights from Canada’s Alvvays and the London-based Oxford Style.
Canadian band Alvvays are gearing up for the UK release of their self-titled debut album through Transgressive on July 21st. The band, which is comprised of Molly Rankin (lead vocals/guitar), Kerri Maclellan (keys/vocals), Alec O’Hanley (guitar), Brian Murphy (bass) and Phil MacIsaac (drums), recently played their first London shows and will be back in the summer.
Oxford Style was formed by and is centred around Paul Nicholson, who apparently, ‘Could no longer contain his loathing for himself and humanity’. The debut single ‘Salo’ is accompanied by a self-produced video which is promised to launch a series of promos throughout 2014.
These and eight other picks of the week can be found by scrolling through our latest collection. Find out much more about this week’s featured artists by clicking on their individual names, and you can catch up with all our previous editions direct through the New Tunes Guide logo above.
To celebrate the start of another month of great music, the Live4ever Ezine is very excited to partner with Manchester’s Ei8htball to offer one lucky reader a new pair of their EX811 in-earphones! Once you’ve been through this week’s tracks, check out all the competition details below.
Old Man Canyon
The Distroy
Desert Killers
Katalina Kicks
New Tunes Guide Highlight
Alvvays
The Scenes
New Tunes Guide Highlight
Oxford Style
Buffalo Sunn
Kav
A C R E S
It’s all about the sound really.
The skitter of a drum machine, the romance of the 808 kicking “Manchester” into life, the howling feedback that links The Who to Jesus And the Mary Chain…to Napalm Death, the jangle that stretches from the Beatles to Arctic Monkeys, the soul groove that pulls back from Alex Turner’s Sheffield lads to Marvin Gaye and rebounds to Robin Thicke.
What you need is something that can handle all of those sounds. Something that will cope with whatever mood you’re in. Something that will be true to what you need to hear.
ei8htball. It’s all in your head.
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