Build It January 2018

After their 2012 Mercury Prize nominated debut and 2015’s Top 20 follow-up ‘Born Under Saturn’, musical adventurers Django Django are back for 2017, exploring new sounds with their brand new album ‘Marble Skies’ which will be released on January 26th 2018 on Because Music. The album launched with first single ‘Tic Tac Toe’, a rousing, trippy upbeat rock track with an enormous echoing hookline which will excite fans of the band’s rockabilly-influenced elements. The accompanying video for ‘Tic Tac Toe’ was directed by John Maclean, brother of Django Django drummer/producer David Maclean and director of the critically acclaimed modernist western ‘Slow West’.

VIII is the new EP by 24-year-old Brisbane based singer-songwriter, Wafia. Released on January 19th via Future Classic, this comes as the second EP released by the Middle-Eastern, Netherlands born artist, who if you get to experience her music at some point, draws upon her different characteristics and identities as a young woman of Muslim faith in such a dynamic but evolving society. VIII follows on from Wafia’s debut EP, XXIX released in 2015.

BROADCAST RECORDING FROM 1973 S TIME FADES AWAY TOUR Following the success of Neil Young s 1972 album Harvest, a new tour with The Stray Gators - to be augmented by Danny Whitten - had been planned, but it became apparent during rehearsals that Whitten could not function due to drug abuse. On November 18, 1972, shortly after he was fired from the tour preparations, Whitten was found dead of an apparent overdose. On the tour, Young struggled with his voice and the performance of drummer Kenny Buttrey, a noted Nashville session musician who was unaccustomed to performing in the rock milieu, was deemed sub-standard. Buttrey was eventually replaced by former CSNY drummer Johnny Barbata, while David Crosby and Graham Nash contributed rhythm guitar and backing vocals to the final dates of the tour. The album assembled in the aftermath of the tour, Time Fades Away, was released in October 1973, and has often been described by Young as my least favourite record"; it was not officially released on CD until 2017. But, despite Young s disappointment with the new release, the album did contain a number of truly great songs, and this CD, recorded for FM radio broadcast on the tour from which the album was compiled, on 28th January 73, features three of the record s very finest cuts, including the title track plus Don t Be Denied and Last Dance . The rest of the show features Young classics from previous albums, his unreleased tribute to Joni Mitchell, Sweet Joni , and two numbers that would be included on his next album, 1975 s Tonight s The Night , written largely for Danny Whitten.

There is something daringly creative about Dusan Jevtovic’s latest release. Live at Home is an album that has many special characteristics.

Introducing Vanja Sky - the newest discovery by Ruf Records. For over 20 years, the label has been a fertile breeding ground for young blues talent, having already helped exceptional female artists such as Samantha Fish, Erja Lyytinen, Ana Popovic and Joanne Shaw Taylor achieve international success. Hailing from the Croatian capital of Zagreb, the singer/guitarist is part of the next wave of hungry, up-and-coming musicians from all corners of the globe who are diving into the blues with passion and energy.

Camila’s self-titled solo debut album is set to be released on January 12th, 2018 and was previously titled The Hurting, The Healing, The Loving. Speaking of the album in an Instagram post, Camila had described songs on the album to each have ‘special memories behind them’, and that it feels ‘emotional letting them go’ as it marks ‘the end of a chapter’ of her life.

Swiss/Finnish/American hard rockers PANORAMA will release their debut album, “Around The World“, on January 12, 2018 via ROAR! Rock Of Angels Records. The album is produced, recorded, mixed and mastered by Dennis Ward (Unisonic, Pink Cream 69). The cover artwork was made by Stan W Decker (Masterplan, Vanden Plas, Resurrection Kings, Stryper).

Tonight Alive have announced details for their new album, Underworld, following news that guitarist and original member Whakaio Taahi has quit the band. Due out on 12 January via UNFD, the group's fourth studio album is set to be their most intense and emotional offering yet.