Broken Hands to Release Debut

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New York - British rockers Broken Hands announced the release of debut album Turbulence, via SO Recordings on October 28th. The emerging band’s lead single “Meteor” is receiving significant U.K. radio airplay. It has been featured on the BBC 6 Music playlist and won a spot on the station’s renowned Rebel Playlist by public vote. Turbulence was recorded in various studios throughout

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DREAMERS Weaves an Energetic Debut

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London – Since forming in 2014, Brooklyn NYC and more recently LA-based trio DREAMERS has harvested a healthy fan following and critical approval off the back of constant touring and a run of popular singles, all three of which feature on this titular-challenged debut album, This Album Does Not Exist. Before we all run into corners to form

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Arc Iris Returns with ‘Moon Saloon’

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London – If 2014’s inventive eponymous debut recording by Arc Iris whetted the appetite for the strange and beautiful, then its follow-up, Moon Saloon, provides a veritable banquet. The Providence, Rhode Island trio of songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jocie Adams, keyboard meister Zachary Tenorio-Miller, and percussionist Ray Belli has cast aside some of the debut’s trappings of Americana in

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Arc Iris’ Jocie Adams Orchestrates Her Dream Life

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London – Arc Iris, the new band formed by songwriter and multi-instrumentalist Jocie Adams after her departure from The Low Anthem, presents an escapist vision in a world heading, however reluctantly, towards serial uniformity. Currently operating as a trio, complete with keyboardist Zachary Tenorio-Miller and percussionist Ray Belli joining Adams, the Providence, Rhode Island band straddles musical genres with

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The Julie Ruin: Message in the Medium

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London – Hit Reset is the follow up to The Julie Ruin‘s 2013 debut Run Fast and the documentary The Punk Singer, detailing frontwoman Kathleen Hanna’s career from the days of Bikini Kill through to Le Tigre and now The Julie Ruin. The original Riot Grrrl, former stripper, and would-be sexual-abuse-counsellor is back again with a band lineup that includes

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Betty Who Unveils Music Video

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Los Angeles – Today, critically acclaimed pop artist, Betty Who, unveils the music video for her cover of Donna Lewis’ “I Love You Always Forever.” Vogue praised the video, stating: “She finds herself in that pillowy camp with her latest cover of Donna Lewis’s ‘I Love You Always Forever,’ echoing the doe-eyed romantic optimism of the

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