Promoting and Supporting Women in Music
This week Kate and Mari played all the new music, including tracks from Slowcoaches, Shamir and Dream Nails.
They discussed the #MeToo campaign and the ‘commonplace’ of toxic masculinity in the music industry. Plus, the super lovely Blonde Maze came in for a bit of a chat and a dreamy live performance.
Listen back to the show here:
A racing, energetic slice of pop-rock, London-based duo REWS‘ have shared their latest single ‘Your Tears’. Recorded at the legendary Abbey Road Studios, it’s the third single taken from the band’s highly anticipated debut album Pyro, which is set for release via Marshall Records on 3rd November.
“‘Your Tears’ is the adrenaline driven, musical rendition of the boy who cried wolf,” explains drummer Collette Williams about the track, which is laced with pop rock sensibilities, dancing beats and front woman Shauna Tohill’s powerhouse vocals.
Rews will be finishing the year with a 16 date UK headline tour starting in November to celebrate the launch of Pyro, and we can’t wait to see them perform live again at London’s Old Blue Last. Check out which date you can make and listen to ‘Your Tears’ below.
REWS November 2017 UK Tour Dates
Wed 8th – The Wheatsheaf, Oxford
Thu 9th – Epic Studios, Norwich
Fri 10th – The Soundhouse, Leicester
Sat 11th – Esquires, Bedford
Wed 15th – The Greystones, Sheffield
Thu 16th – Fibbers, York
Fri 17th – The Met, Bury
Sat 18th – Lincoln IMP, Scunthorpe
Wed 22nd – The Horn, St Albans
Thu 23rd – The Forum, Tunbridge Wells
Fri 24th – The Face Bar, Reading
Sat 25th – Actress & Bishop, Birmingham
Wed 29th – Old Blue Last, London
Thu 30th – Gwidhw, Cardiff
Pre-order your copy of Pyro here, and follow REWS on Facebook for more updates.
Kate Crudgington
@KCBobCut
Having had a fantastic few months of touring with the likes of Petrol Girls, Cherry Glazerr and Bleached, Get In Her Ears favourites Dream Nails are back with the release of their brand new Dare To Care EP, out later this month.
Taken from the EP, new single ‘Tourist’ is a racing, punk-fuelled offering, packing a punch with its seething, fist-clenching force. Written about emotionally predatory men who are drawn to women when they’re vulnerable, it’s propelled by guitarist Anya’s truly infectious riffs, pounding beats and front woman Janey’s buoyant energy and impassioned vocals. Of the track, Janey explains:
“… it’s about men who present themselves as a hero but all they really want to do is fetishise sad girls, make them emotionally attached and then abuse that power. We can smell those guys a mile away and they’re creepy.”
As the track builds to an almighty climax of empowering might, it shows just why we need Dream Nails in our lives; at times like this, we need bands like them more than ever – a group willing to combine activism and music to form a unifying force against the patriarchy. A group who create sparkling, energy-filled offerings that succeed in inspiring and motivating girls everywhere to get to the front and make our voices heard.
Listen to ‘Tourist’ here:
Dare To Care, the upcoming EP from Dream Nails is out 27 October. And you can catch them live at the EP launch that night, at DIY Space For London.
Mari Lane
@marimindles
Cindy Wilson is best known for her work as a founding member of the new wave band B-52s, but by the time you’ve wrapped your ears around her synth-soaked new single ‘Mystic’, you’ll be left wondering “the B-fifty-whos?” The track is taken from her upcoming solo album Change, due to be released on the 1st December via iconic label Kill Rock Stars.
The record is a confident, ambitious effort from the songwriter, who embarked on this new recording journey back in Athens, GA. almost a decade ago. Change is “as bold as anything in Wilson’s ground-breaking four decade canon”, spanning genres such as future pop, disco drama, American standards, electronica and more, which demonstrate her own “distinctive creative vision”.
Listen to ‘Mystic’ below and follow Cindy on Facebook for more updates.
Kate Crudgington
@KCBobCut
