Fire Note Staff 
It is another Bandcamp Friday today so let’s get to business of offering three bands to consider spending some money on today. First up, is the excellent new indie rock from Baltimore’s Proper Nouns, followed by disjointed and angular uniqueness in Brooklyn’s Birthday Ass and lastly some killer rock and punk from Melbourne’s Jackson Reid … Read more
Unschooling is a four-piece band based in Rouen, France. Their music is full of complex guitar lines and weird song structures that are all stirred with poppier elements. They previously released a self-produced tape back in 2019 which was very well received in France and quickly put them on a list of artists to watch. … Read more
Guided By Voices new track “Trust Them Now,” is the second single off their upcoming LP Earth Man Blues, due out April 30th on Rockathon Records. The quick moving and seamless flowing song is classic sounding GBV and honestly could be the catchiest single the current lineup has released since 2019’s “The Rally Boys” from … Read more
Squirrel Flower, the moniker of Ella Williams, announces her new album, Planet (i), out June 25th on Polyvinyl Records, and today offers its lead single and video, “Hurt A Fly.” Planet (i) is the follow-up to 2020’s I Was Born Swimming. Planet (i) is a world entirely of Williams’ making. The title came first to … Read more
Friends of The Fire Note – Dany Laj and the Looks – have released their brand new single and video for “Don’t Keep Me Guessin’.” This excellent new foot tapper is from their upcoming third full length album Ten Easy Pieces, which is set for release on June 11 via We Are Busy Bodies. Produced, … Read more
Mesmerised is the newest LP by The Routes, the group helmed by Scots-born, Japanese-dwelling guitarist, vocalist and songwriter Chris Jack. This also happens to be the eighth long-playing record to bear the group’s name; one that has been steadily growing in stature and stamina since their earliest outpourings more than ten years ago. The album … Read more
From high in the hills of Byron Bay in Australia, BABE RAINBOW have been catching the favor of like-minded souls with their music across three albums now. The latest person to feel their music in the wind is activist, actor and musician Jaden Smith. Crushing at first on their song ‘Us and the Rainbow’ from … Read more
Yellow Ostrich, the project led by Minneapolis songwriter/producer Alex Schaaf, has just released the video for their latest single “Julia” and announced their new album Soft, the first Yellow Ostrich in seven years, will be out April 23rd on Barsuk Records. “Julia” features Schaaf’s crystal-clear vocal melodies as he analyzes the ongoing struggle against an … Read more
From high in the hills of Byron Bay in Australia, BABE RAINBOW have been catching the favour of like-minded souls with their music across three albums now. The latest person to feel their music in the wind is activist, actor and musician Jaden Smith. Crushing at first on their song ‘Us and the Rainbow’ from … Read more
With the exciting news of a new Dinosaur Jr. album the band also has a fall North American tour planned (see dates below). Tickets for their North American tour are available now HERE. Their forthcoming album, Sweep It Into Space, is out April 23nd on Jagjaguwar, and the fire track today, “I Ran Away,” is … Read more
black midi announce Cavalcade, their new album out May 28th on Rough Trade, and today offer its lead single/video, “John L.” Cavalcade is a dynamic, hellacious, and inventive follow-up to 2019’s widely-praised Schlagenheim, “a labyrinth with hairpin-turn episodes and lyrics full of dourly corrosive observations” (New York Times, Best Albums of 2019). It scales beautiful … Read more
In 2019 Christian Savill found himself alone and with a year off from playing guitar for Slowdive. He started writing and demoing songs with no particular plan. From 2001 he had recorded with longtime friend and collaborator Sean Hewson as Monster Movie releasing several albums on Graveface Records. These new ideas felt different in that … Read more
On May 21, Matador Records will release Afrique Victime, the new album by Mdou Moctar. With Afrique Victime the prodigious Tuareg guitarist and songwriter rips a new hole in the sky – boldly reforging contemporary Saharan music and “rock music” by melding guitar pyrotechnics, full-blast noise, and field recordings with poetic meditations on love, religion, … Read more
N0V3L return with news of their debut full-length, NON-FICTION. The album functions as a treatise on modern existence and the perverse parameters within which it’s experienced. It’s a collection of agile, carefully-constructed post-punk, new wave and funk that’s been zapped and warped by an opioid overdose crisis, mental illness, populism, and the merciless onward march … Read more
Monsters don’t just exist in fairytales. They exist in split-second thoughts, sleepless nights, and corners of our mind we’d much rather blackout. That’s what Hit Like a Girl is confronting in their newest single, “Monsters.” Featuring guest vocals from Bartees Strange, it’s a moment of clarity that sees frontperson Nicolle Maroulis (they/them) snapping to the … Read more
Earlier this year, Squid announced the release of their much-anticipated debut album, Bright Green Field, out May 7th via Warp Records. Today, they present a new single, “Paddling,” which follows the release of “Narrator” (feat. Martha Skye Murphy), and announce an online performance as part of the official British Music Embassy SXSW showcase, airing Friday, … Read more
The 26-minute Emigrant EP from Kishi Bashi is a lush bluegrass-inspired album referencing the brutal history and harsh climate of the American West. Arranged and recorded over the last year (in Emigrant, Montana), this EP serves as a time capsule of the 2020 condition as it meditates on the anxieties of the COVID-19 pandemic, the … Read more
Night Beats, the Texas-born brainchild of Danny Lee Blackwell, has shared “Ticket” – the latest single to be lifted from the incoming Outlaw R&B album due out May 7th on Fuzz Club Records. “Ticket” is a piece of thrashing, white-knuckle garage-psych and another insight into the raw, acid-fried sound that the band return to on … Read more
PACKS were an increasingly visible presence in Toronto in the first part of 2020. A string of intriguing lo-fi singles, appearing once every month or so on Bandcamp through 2019 had begun to persuade people to take notice in their hometown, where the band were sharing stages with people like Squirrel Flower and Odetta Hartman, … Read more
Melbourne, Australia’s CIVIC have announced that they will release their debut album, Future Forecast on March 26th via Flightless Records. The five-piece shared their latest single and video, “Tell The Papers” which was directed by Oscar O’Shea. This song is a ripper! You can pre-order the album HERE.
Hiss Golden Messenger just announced the forthcoming release of new studio album Quietly Blowing It, out June 25 via Merge Records. Written, arranged, and produced by bandleader/songwriter M.C. Taylor, Quietly Blowing It is the highly anticipated follow-up to 2019’s Terms of Surrender, which has been nominated for a 2021 GRAMMY® Award for Best Americana Album. … Read more
The Reds, Pinks & Purples second single from its new LP for Slumberland (on Tough Love in Europe) Uncommon Weather which is out April 9, 2021. “The Record Player and the Damage Done,” is a solid piece of DIY pop that echoes immaculate influences such as The Church, Felt and New Zealand’s Flying Nun label. … Read more
Los Angeles band Hooveriii have released their new single “Cindy.” The track is taken off their forthcoming new album Water For The Frogs, due out April 9 via The Reverberation Appreciation Society label. Having originally been born as a solo drum machine project by Bert Hoover, Hooveriii (pronounced “Hoover Three”) has now evolved into its’ … Read more
Ska-punk pioneers The Mighty Mighty BossToneS will release their 11th studio record When God Was Great on May 7 via Hellcat Records. Co-produced by longtime collaborator Ted Hutt (The Gaslight Anthem, Dropkick Murphys) and Rancid frontman Tim Armstrong (Transplants, Jimmy Cliff), When God Was Great is the culmination of their extensive and all-embracing career and … Read more
No real need for an introduction here. New St. Vincent is out May 14, 2021. This is the Good Records Astroturf edition. You can find its details below. You can pre-order a copy HERE. GOOD RECORDS ASTROTURF EDITION-WARM WHITE MARBLE VINYL-LIMITED TO 1,000 NUMBERED COPIES Warm White Marble Vinyl11″x22″ Poster InsertComes with exclusive St. Vincent … Read more