Last week’s Apricot Rail and My Majestic Star gig at the Velvet Lounge, Perth, has received a glowing write-up in Faster Louder. Check the review in full at the Faster Louder site.

Apricot Rail’s self-titled debut album is out next week on the 4th of July. Until then you can grab their single ‘Pouring Milk Out The Window’ for free from the HSR Store. Listeners of Triple J’s wonderful Home and Hosed program would have heard the single get a bunch of rotations and can expect to hear spins of the album there in the coming weeks.

My Majestic Star are currently working on a new album, due for release later in the year. Meanwhile, both their previous albums and the Fining EP are available from the HSR Store.

Apricot Rail Pouring Milk Out The Window Apricot Rail – Pouring Milk Out The Window

Rich Bennett is performing live next week, 1st July, at Union Hall, Brooklyn. Check out Rich’s Facebook page for full details.

Rich is currently working on a new album, due out on Hidden Shoal soon, so he’ll be playing some of this new material at Union Hall, along with tracks from his sublime mini-album, Music For Underwater Supermarkets.

Rich Bennett  Aisle 2: Entrance Rich Bennett – Aisle 2: Entrance

The sublime debut album Cradlesongs by Clayton McEvoy aka Sleeping Me has debuted in the WNYU CMJ top 30 charts at number 8 ahead of awesome new albums by Tortoise, Grizzly Bear, Cave, Magik Markers and Bill Callahan to name but a few. If you’re a New Yorker then you no doubt know of the fantastic programming on WNYU but if you’re out of airwave reach then make sure to tune in to the live stream and soak in the goodness.

If you’ve not yet had the pleasure of hearing Cradlesongs then head to the HSR Store where you can stream the album in full as well as find links for CD and digital purchase.

Sleeping Me – First Cell, First Love Sleeping Me – First Cell, First Love

Excerpt (translated from the Italian): “HC-B are five Italian guys from Catania that have been playing together for 10 years… a fusion of sound and images, long phrasings, evident rhythms. Their music is independent rock; in fact, there aren’t any pop motifs nor banal verse/refrain structures, moving away from any known definitions toward its own universe.”

I Love Sicilia, May 2009