Brooklyn Vegan — Los Angeles band The Jigsaw Seen have been making chiming, crunchy power pop for nearly 30 years. If you dig XTC's later, Beatlesque records but wish they had a little more kick, you should really check these guys out... Continue reading… more info

Obscure Sound — “Lesser Evil” caught my attention from the get-go, especially with a chorus whose vocal approach (the grandiose backing vocal exuberance) reminds strongly of XTC, a personal favorite and act whose songwriting is full of distinctive charm to the p... more info

Brooklyn Vegan — Uranium Club make the kind of hyperactive, angsty guitar music that's like Devo, XTC, The Fall, The Wipers, The Feelies and My Dad is Dead whizzed up in a blender. Continue reading… more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — Organised ScumFrom: London, EnglandWith a name like Organised Scum (first featured on the blog earlier this year, Fresh Sounds 17th January 2016) you'd probably expect a punk band that eschewed anarchy in favour of accountancy, ripped t-shirts i... more info

Popdose — As quickly as we had the review up for Allyson Seconds’ new album, the splendid Little World, we now have the 1st video, the album’s title track.  Catchy, bouncy, joyful, it captures the spirit of this album beautifully.  With instruments by pr... more info

Popdose — It should be an immediate moment of sitting up and taking notice of Allyson Seconds’ latest offering, Little World, just by virtue of the names that appear as players on this 11-track offering.  Is it enough to begin with the likes of Colin Mouldi... more info

The Devil Has The Best Tuna — BatteriesFrom: Glasgow, ScotlandBatteries is the latest venture from Steven Clark perhaps better known by noise pop enthusiasts as Sci-Fi Steve from punky upstarts Bis. His spiky twitchy post punk single The Fall-In-Love-Club with it's terrace ch... more info

Popdose — And as quickly as we premiered “She Makes Me Laugh”, here now is another brand new track from The Monkees’ forthcoming album, “You Bring The Summer” – this one written by Andy Partridge of XTC.  A stunningly perfect/apt track for the onc... more info

Time — Featuring guest writer Andy Partridge from XTC more info

Stereogum — The Monkees are returning later this month with Good Times!, their first new album in 20 years and their first since the death of original member Davy Jones. They enlisted Fountains Of Wayne frontman Adam Schlesinger to produce the LP, and it feature... more info