Undercard #8
ft. TVOD, Getdown Services, Sabine McCalla, Tyler Ballgame, Westside Cowboy, and many more
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HELLO FRIENDS!
Welcome to the eighth edition of Undercard, our weekly music roundup, featuring the best new releases from this year’s artists and beyond.
This time: we’re pitching up at the Indie Label Market, Jackie-O Motherfucker are celebrating an anniversary, Ryan Davis gets a Best New Music badge, Tyler Ballgame joins the Rough Trade roster, Westside Cowboy are Glasto Emerging Talent contest winners, Audrey Golden writes about The Raincoats, and much more.
→ We’ll have our own pitch at tomorrow’s Independent Label Market in London’s Coal Drops Yard, alongside over 50 excellent indie labels and makers.
Find our stall for:
■ A ticket giveaway raffle in aid of War Child
■ EOTR merch for sale (inc. T-Shirts and records)
■ Ben from The Golden Dregs selling (and signing) copies of their latest album
■ Good vibes + weather ☀️
Entry is free, there are locally brewed beers on tap and friend of the festival Babak Ganjei will also be there selling his prints. Come through!
Simon recently guested on Cerys Matthews’ show on 6 Music
→ Jackie O Motherfucker are re-issuing their incredible album Flags of the Scared Harp on Fire Records in celebration of its 20th Anniversary. You can pre-order it here.
→ Sabine McCalla, who appears on the Talking Heads stage at this year’s festival, has a cameo in recent genre-bending film Sinners, which has been breaking records since its release.
→ The latest Emma-Jean Thackray album got some really nice press and reviews for her latest record Weirdo, including a track by track breakdown in Stereogum and a 7.8 from Pitchfork, who said it’s “steeped in melody, vibrant color, and a sneaky sense of humor”.
→ Audrey Golden, who’ll appear at this year’s festival alongside founding The Raincoats member Gina Burch, wrote about the band in a recent article for the Quietus.
→ These New Puritans member Jack Barnett featured on the Loud and Quiet podcast, reflecting on the town he came from, keeping out of scenes, and the group’s new album Crooked Wing.
→ Self Esteem featured on a recent A View From A Bridge video and her new record A Complicated Woman is currently sitting at number 5 in the UK album charts.
→ We recently featured in the Independent guide to the The 14 best UK Music Festivals, the Lonely Planet guide to the best UK festivals, and guide to British Festivals in The Mirror.
→ We also asked you what song you’d most want to hear from an artist on the bill at this year’s festival. Check out what people had to say and add your own here
TVOD – Party Time
→ TVOD, purveyors of “driving no-frills punk” (Under the Radar) released their debut full length Party Time today via Mothland, which features 11 tracks of “introspective prose heartedly crammed into punk rock scorchers, depicting the bittersweet realities of the Big Apple’s nightlife scene”.
→ Tyler Ballgame, the LA via Rhode Island crooner, has announced he’s signed to Rough Trade and released new single “Help Me Out”.
→ Ryan Davis & The Roadhouse Band, led by Louisville, Kentucky visual artist, multi-instrumentalist, and songwriter Ryan Davis, announced their first album since 2023 breakthrough Dancing on the Edge. Lead single from it “New Threats From the Soul” earned a Best New Track badge on Pitchfork and is lifted from their upcoming new record with the same name, out on July 25th via Sophomore Lounge/Tough Love.
→ Glasshouse Red Spider Mite released new track “Ant Mill”, the second song taken from their debut EP What Do You Mean The Monster?… HAHAHA, which comes out in a couple of weeks on Memorials of Distinction.
→ Man/Woman/Chainsaw released new single “MadDog” on So Young Records and are putting out a 7” of it that also includes their last single “Adam & Steve”. Rough Trade have an exclusive version of the release (limited to 100 copies) featuring a riso-printed poster, which is available here.
→ Getdown Services released new song “Eat Quiche, Sleep, Repeat”, named after something “our dear Lord and friend Kate had in her tinder bio many years ago”. It’s lifted from their upcoming EP Primordial Slot Machine, which arrives June 6th on Breakfast Records.
→ Westside Cowboy, who recently won Glastonbury‘s Emerging Talent Competition, have released a new track titled “Shells”, which is “broadly about acceptance… whether it is the acknowledgment of what you have, or the acknowledgment that change is inevitable”. It’s being released on Heist or Hit and Nice Swan.
→ Kassie Krut announced an upcoming expanded version of their self-titled debut EP via Fire Talk, featuring five new remixes, including this one by Panda Bear.
→ Squid released new single “The Hearth And Circle Round Fire”, an outtake from the sessions for the band’s third studio album, Cowards, which was released in February on Warp.
→ Matt Berninger released new track “Inland Ocean” on Concord, which he co-wrote with Walter Martin from The Walkmen. It features backup vocals from Julia Laws, otherwise known as Ronboy, who’ll support him on his upcoming tour.
billy woods (photo: Natalia Vacheishvili)
⇢ billy woods, who played the Big Top last year, self-released an “intensely confrontational” (Slant) new record called GOLLIWOG, which is Stereogum’s Album Of The Week. A record filled with “doom-swirl intensity” from an “an incredible, peerless rapper”.
⇢ Destroyer (2018) and Jessica Pratt (2019) performed together on an episode of Everybody’s Live with John Mulaney this week. They played “Travel Light” by the former and “World on a String” by the latter – check them out on YouTube
↑ Muireann Bradley shared a cover of the timeless Hank Williams classic “I’m So Lonesome I Could Cry” ↑
↑ Mount Kimbie released a live version of “Fishbrain”, filmed in London, as well as announcing new album The Sunset Violent – Live in Heidelberg, which will be out June 20th ↑
↑ Hayden Pedigo released a video of him performing “I’ll Be Waving As You Drive Away”, the title song and final track from his upcoming new album ↑
↑ The New Eves released a music video for new track “Rivers Run Red”, lifted from their forthcoming debut album The New Eve Is Rising, out August 1st ↑
⇢ We’re also still looking for bar staff volunteers, (non food) vendors, artist liaison and merch staff, and stewards – we’d love to hear from you if you’re interested.
