Chokehold

Slaves, a British punk-rock duo released another track from their upcoming album. Chokehold is exactly how they describe their music: British punk with harsh bluesy garage riffs. This kind of music works well from time to time at my place. It is also an amazing video where the duo is looking for a new drummer. There are cameos by members of Royal Blood, Wolf Alice, Blur and more to watch.

Lights Out

In 2014 West Sussex duo Royal Blood appeared on the scene with their self titled first album and I played it often then. I liked their raw sound only played by bass and drums. Influenced by blues rock, hard rock and a bit of psychedelic rock they made the difference to others in this genre. Now they announced their next album and they released a new single. It is as we used to know - just simple and propulsive drums and almost the whole song a bass solo. Seems like the British make the better kind of stoner rock.

Figure It Out

FM4 is an Austrian record station. They don't play the usual mainstream and for long years they have open ears for new music and styles. I follow them since a few years and got inspirations for a lot of new music. This record station has a weekly top 25 with new music that mostly didn't got an airplay on other stations. For a couple of weeks the had a new number one - Royal Blood.

Royal Blood is a band formed last year as a two man band by Mike Kerr (bass and vocals) and Ben Thatcher (drums). They had a few appearances by several festivals throughout this season. And it's a monster of a song. Stamped by heavy riffs and a forward driving drums they made a classical record that can stand in a row to the best of British Indie Rock. This might be the next big hype in music but I love it right now. Taste it ...