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EyesClosed had the pleasure to speak to Josh from Thousand Below – never mind the 8 hour time difference – about the band’s new EP “Let Go Of Your Love”, the songwriting and creation process of it, as well as future plans and even some bits and bobs about the album number three. Video interview Thousand Below pages Messed!Up recommends  …

If you spent much of your time at venues to watch great garage punk bands ten years ago there’s no way you would have missed a Tyred Eyes gig. Wherever there was a venue, there was a Tyred Eyes show, and it didn’t stop at the Swedish border, the band brought their rowdy garage punk shows across Europe as well. …

Tom Gregory, a singer from Blackpool and one of the UK’s most promising young songwriters, started his music career in 2017 with Hamburg label Kontor Records. The young Brit had his first gig at Reeperbahn Festival the same year and since then he has climbed the artist ladder. His single “Small Steps” reached number three in the charts in 2019 …

Chameleonic musician Kristofer Åström has certainly ruffled some feathers throughout his career. Since his days as the frontman of rock band Fireside, Åström has explored a wide gamut of genres but mostly floats in the hemisphere of Americana and folk music. And while his sound palette is diverse on the surface, everything he’s done so far has an underlying DIY …

Ms EyesClosed had the wonderful opportunity to talk to AViVA, a refreshing new force in the alternative music scene who just dropped her debut album “Volume I”, while she was in her native Australia. They talk about the circumstances of writing the album, being misunderstood and not really fitting in, as well as what happened when she learned Elvish as …

Weedy-thin gambolling guitar lines pitched against hi-hat-spanking splashy indie pop beats – few movements in music were built on narrower tropes than late-noughties indie. To hear Giant Rooks launch into “Wild Stare“, one of their stock-in-trade breakout singles, and watch a fairly crowded Cruise Inn venue go bananas for it, is to appreciate how thoroughly music has changed in the …