Singles That Mingle

With Captain Stavros

 

The Reds, Pinks & Purples – What’s Going On With Everyday People

Unwishing Well Out April 12 Via Tough Love

Smooth sailing, for everyday people.

 

VR Sex – In Great Detail

Hard Copy Out Now Via Dais

There are at least three genres here we never thought would mash-up so well.

 

Chastity Belt – Laugh

Live Laugh Love Out Now Via Suicide Squeeze Records

Don’t let the horrible album title sway you; the tunes are pretty wavy.

 

Crumb – Amma

Amma Out May 17 Via Crumb Records

Weird and wonderful.

 

Slate – Remoter Heaven

Deathless Out May 17 Via Brace Yourself Records

Smoothy Groovy, moody tooty.

 

Kneecap – Fine Art

Fine Art Out June 15 Via Heavenly Recordings

It’s too bad these lot have blown up and are absolutely killing it because so many insufferables will be at their next string of live shows.

 

Ed Harcourt – El Magnifico

Great title, great track, great title track.

 

Sinkane – Come Together

We Belong Out Friday Via City Slang

Discoey and gooey, check-er-oooot.

 

Curses – Elegant Death

Another winner from the IDIB crew.

 

Max Blansjaar – Anna Madonna

Jangly and fun, something to shake that money maker to.

 

Magana – Break Free

Sure footed, lighthearted, tune.

 

Frog – RIP to the Empire Flea Market

Hop to it and get a listen-on.

 

 

 

Frog Announce New Album

Frog’s new album, Grog, is released November 17, their first album since 2019’s Count Bateman.  You can get to know these two big-hearted weirdos through their “Kings of Blah” UK tour documentary.

New York duo Frog (brothers Danny & Steve Bateman) return with their fifth album. This collection of gorgeous indie Americana is full of the nostalgia, hope, defeat and lust that earned previous singles ‘Judy Garland’ and ‘You Know I’m Down’ several million streams on Spotify.

Eclectic and wildly creative, this fully realized LP veers from the gorgeous grooving funk of ‘Black on Black on Black’ to the classic pop of ‘Maybelline’ before ‘New Ro’ exemplifies the gothic and cartoonish characteristics that songwriter Daniel Bateman describes his latest work with.

Taking its cues from ‘70s pop, ‘60s garage rock, ‘90s guitar music and timeless Americana, Grog is sometimes Jonathan Richman, sometimes Hall & Oates, sometimes Billy Joel, sometimes Steely Dan, sometimes Dennis Wilson, sometimes Townes Van Zandt…but always Frog.