The Wave Pictures

Artwork for the Wave Pictures album Gained/Lost

The Wave Pictures “Gained/Lost”

March 11, 2026 Ben Yelton 2

Ambitious, dream-soaked pop that reaches high but rarely quite lands. There’s something immediately intriguing about Gained/Lost. On paper, the ingredients are enticing: the literate jangle of The Smiths, the wide-eyed psych-pop glow of The Flaming Lips, […]

The Wave Pictures “When The Purple Emperor Spreads His Wings”

May 16, 2022 Michael Macy 0

There is a whole lot goin’ on here, and it is all good. The ‘Purple Emperor Spreads His Wings‘, the new double album by The Wave Pictures is a tour de force. It energetically revives the […]

Video Premiere: The Wave Pictures “Never Let You Down”

March 7, 2022 Andrew Frolish 0

We are pleased to premiere the latest single from remarkably prolific English rockers The Wave Pictures. ‘Never Let You Down’ is full of jangling electric guitars and soaring, rich melody. The voice of David Tattersall (vocals […]

Small Venue Heroes: The Surfing Magazines

February 22, 2022 Rich Orpin 0

Formed in 2017, The Surfing Magazines are a super-group comprising two thirds of The Wave Pictures and one half of Slow Club. Showcasing the myriad talents of frontman Dave Tattersall, along with Franic Rozycki (The Wave […]

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Video: The Wave Pictures “Flight From Destruction”

January 27, 2022 Cam Fraser 0

Oozing lyrical sophistication and classic guitar-pop chops, The Wave Pictures seize 2022 by the horns with the release of a new track and a fabulously retro-feeling animated video. It’s magnificent. ‘Flight From Destruction‘ is from the […]

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Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

March 23, 2026 0

Dead Goat has announced the release of their first album, which is self-titled and comes out this Friday (26th March) via AV8 Records. Who are they, you ask? Well, individually, they are each accomplished artists in […]

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

March 23, 2026 0

Superb fourth from Canadian song thrush. Mud Blood Bone is Cat Clyde’s fourth album and arrives just over four years since its predecessor, Down Rounder. In between times, Clyde released a live album, Live At Rare […]

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

March 23, 2026 0

Marah is at their best when singing about lonely urban streets where bums warm their hands around trash fires in rusty 50-gallon cans, transvestite prostitutes wrap their feather boas a little tighter against an unforgiving 4:00 […]

Interviews

Interview: Bob Lind on “It Oughta Be Easy”

March 12, 2026 0

Folk icon talks life, hope, and his 2026 record. Bob Lind recently released his fourth studio album of new material in the past fourteen years, “It Oughta Be Easy,” a characteristically literate, introspective, and often humorous […]

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Video Interview: Dave Alvin on The Third Mind’s “Spellbinder”

March 11, 2026 2

While Dave Alvin is regarded as one of the greats of American roots music, his taste in music and his own music from the Blasters onwards has included hints of his musical eclecticism. Evidently, he always […]

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Interview: Toad the Wet Sprocket – forty years of awkward grace

March 4, 2026 2

At 55, Glen Phillips sounds both reflective and lightly amused when he talks about the band he co-founded as a teenager in Santa Barbara, California. Four decades later, Toad the Wet Sprocket is still touring, still […]

Tracks

Okkervil River “What Friends Do” – Listen

November 29, 2017 0

Okkervil River’s latest track What Friends Do is the theme song to Amazon Prime’s animated holiday special “Click Clack Moo: Christmas At The Farm”. Breaking Bad it’s not. It’s based on the book series from Doreen Cronin […]

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Here’s another track from the next Jason Isbell album

March 30, 2020 1

Ahead of the release of his anticipated (and we don’t use that word lightly) new album ‘Reunions’ which is due out 15th May on Thirty Tigers, Jason Isbell and The 400 Unit have released another new […]

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Track Premiere: Joana Serrat “Demons”

May 25, 2021 0

‘Demons‘ is the last single to be released prior to the arrival of Joana Serrat’s new album ‘Hardcore From The Heart’ comes out on June 11th. It is Serrat’s fifth album, and for the recording she travelled from […]

The Wave Pictures “Gained/Lost”

The Wave Pictures “When The Purple Emperor Spreads His Wings”

Video Premiere: The Wave Pictures “Never Let You Down”

Small Venue Heroes: The Surfing Magazines

Video: The Wave Pictures “Flight From Destruction”

Dead Goat to release self titled debut amid talk of an Irish supergroup

Cat Clyde “Mud Blood Bone”

For the Sake of the Song: Marah “Round Eye Blues”

Elgin and the Marbles “The Sun Never Sets”

Jack Studer “Falling Forward”