Frank Turner is one of those artists who just never stops working. If he’s not recording a new album, he’s touring. If he’s not touring, he’s recording radio sessions. If he’s not recording radio sessions, he’s touring. If he’s not touring, he’s recording extra material for b-sides or stand-alone EPs. It’s no wonder that his solo career has spawned compilation discs of album length every three years. This traditional taking stock resulted in a third compilation – predictably titled ‘The Third Three Years’ – in the autumn of 2014. While this particular instalment of FT’s extra-curricular recordings is, perhaps, a little more reliant on covers and live/session material than the previous two anthologies, the twenty one track disc brings plenty of enjoyable material for the Turner fan.
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Levellers unveil new video with Bellowhead
The final instalment in the quartet of new Levellers videos, you can now watch a clip of the band collaborating on a re-recording of ‘Just The One’ below.
New video from The House Of Capricorn
Kiwi Stoner rock/metal band The House Of Capricorn have a new album ‘Morning Star Rise’ released on December 1st via Svart Records (home of the mighty Witch Mountain).
Before the release of the album, you can enjoy this atmospheric and grainy video clip (directed and edited by Amber Beaton at Villiantime) for the lead single ‘The Only Star In The Sky’.
FIVE YEARS: What a surprise… (An anniversary editorial)
This weekend, Real Gone reaches a special milestone – five years of internet presence. As that famous musical philosopher Mr. David Bowie once sang: “Five years…what a surprise.” It’s been a really hard road to get so far, but it’s certainly been rewarding – over the recent years, we’ve met a bunch of really great people and heard some amazing music, a huge amount of which might have passed under our radar if we weren’t constantly reviewing stuff. Who knows…maybe some of those albums would have passed under your radar too?
TAKE TURNS – Animal Fat EP
Musical fashions are cyclical. Like the 70s became very fashionable in the 1990s, the 1990s, in turn, have had a huge influence on some of the alternative rock sounds of the ’10s. Bands like Yuck can be found recycling the best elements of Sonic Youth and Dinosaur Jr with sheer abandon, the Bandcamp site is full of similar revivalist acts, while The Pains of Being Pure at Heart found critical acclaim channelling a very definite nineties indie jangle within their sound. Take Turns, a Leeds based quartet are as guilty for shameless recycling, but like Yuck and Pains, their end sound is so full of love for those who’ve inspired them, it would take a hard heart not to enjoy their nostalgia trip. On this six song EP, they’re none to shy about flaunting an absolute obsession with Pavement…