Watch: Avery Friedman shares new video for ‘You Move’

Posted on October 9, 2026 by Real Gone

In 2025, Avery Friedman released the excellent ‘New Thing’, a debut album steeped in a very nostalgic sound. The bulk of the release’s tracks hit upon a swooning indie tone, blending elements of dream pop into a light jangle which served the artist’s breathy vocal tones perfectly. The material wasn’t always about immediacy, but for those listeners willing to spend the time, it eventually became the kind of record that really rewarded those repeated listens.

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THE FALL – Post Script

Posted on October 9, 2026 by Real Gone

The Cog Sinister label has been responsible for a huge number of Fall products over the decades. The label, founded by Mark E. Smith in 1987, was dissolved a few years later and the name was subsequently adopted by the Voiceprint group in 1997 for the purpose of reissuing various Fall items and sharing official bootlegs. These have ranged from the terrible (‘Live 1977’) to the average (the lop-sided sounding ‘Band On The Wall, 1982’), to the absolutely essential (gigs recorded at Cedar Ballroom, Birmingham in 1980 and Derby Assembly Rooms in 1994).

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THE REAL GONE SINGLES BAR #177

Posted on October 8, 2026 by Real Gone

Welcome back to the Real Gone Singles Bar, the place where we explore some of the more interesting tracks that have landed in our inbox over the past few weeks. This time around, we bring you a couple of superb singer songwriters, an interesting remix, an unmissable slab of alternative metal, a jaunty country number and more besides. As always, we hope you find something new to enjoy.

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STEAK – Steak

Posted on October 7, 2026 by Real Gone

Steak’s ‘Acute Mania’ (released via Ripple Music in 2022) presented a brilliant dose of stoner rock. Just as important as sharing some great riffs, the album boasted the kind of production job that made the London based heavyweights sound even heavier. The guitars adopted a tone somewhere between doomy and fuzzy – often making the band’s Kyuss influenced roots more than obvious – and the drums punched through everything with a genuine intent. In stoner terms, it offered the kind of professional sound you’d expect from a major label band a quarter of a century earlier. In short, ‘Acute Mania’ was a contemporary stoner classic.

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QUIZ SHOW – XONO EP

Posted on October 5, 2026 by Real Gone

Quiz Show’s 2024 EP release ‘Flotsam’ often played like a musical love letter to the alternative rock boom of the 90s. Taking influences from Superchunk and the earliest, noisier works of Buffalo Tom, and occasionally applying a quietLOUDquiet approach to the arrangements – as per Pixies and Nirvana – it gave fans of the grunge era lots to enjoy in a small package. ‘XONO’ – shared in the Autumn of ’26 – finds the band, founded by Shudder To Think’s Chris Matthews, sticking to what they know. But that’s something they do very well indeed.

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