Dublin rock n' roll band Fontaines D.C. have unleashed the video for their latest single "Roman Holiday".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their third studio album 'Skinty Fia', which came out in April through Partisan Records. Grab your copy here.
Speaking about it, Grian Chatten says: “Roman Holiday makes me think of the wide streets of north London in the Summer and the urge to discover them at night time. The thrill of being a gang of Irish people in London with a bit of a secret language and my first flat with my girlfriend.”
Dublin rock n' roll band Fontaines D.C. have dropped their new single "Roman Holiday".
The song is taken from their forthcoming third studio album 'Skinty Fia', set to be released on April 22 through Partisan Records. Pre-order your copy here.
Speaking about it, Grian Chatten says: “Roman Holiday makes me think of the wide streets of north London in the Summer and the urge to discover them at night time. The thrill of being a gang of Irish people in London with a bit of a secret language and my first flat with my girlfriend.”
Dublin rock n' roll band Fontaines D.C. have released the video for their new single "Skinty Fia".
The song is taken from their forthcoming third studio album 'Skinty Fia', set to be released on April 22 through Partisan Records. Pre-order your copy here.
Dublin rock n' roll band Fontaines D.C. have released the video for their new single "I Love You".
The song is taken from their forthcoming third studio album 'Skinty Fia', set to be released on April 22 through Partisan Records. Pre-order your copy here.
Accompanied by a cinematic video directed by Sam Taylor, Grian Chatten describes the song as “the first overtly political song we’ve written. It’s standing in the centre of our beloved home country as a multitude of things are brought to tragic ends in an apocalyptic state of affairs. That’s how it feels to me, and what I felt when I wrote it.”
Derby, UK rock n' roll/indie rock band Marseille have dropped their new single "She Knows a Place".
Reminiscent of the 90's Madchester scene with their own individual influences and an average age of 18 the lads surely will go on to take the world by storm.
Dublin rock n' roll band Fontaines D.C. have announced the release of their third studio album 'Skinty Fia'.
The follow-up to their 2020's record A Hero's Death, will be out on April 22 through Partisan Records. Pre-order your copy here.
Skinty Fia, used colloquially as an expletive, it roughly translates from the Irish language into English as “the damnation of the deer”; the spelling crassly anglicised, and its meaning diluted through generations. Part bittersweet romance, part darkly political triumph - the songs ultimately form a long-distance love letter, one that laments an increasingly privatised culture in danger of going the way of the extinct Irish giant deer.
Check out the album's tracklist and the video for lead single "Jackie Down The Line" below.
Los Angeles rock n' roll band Starcrawler have revealed their new single "Goodtime Girl", alongside an accompanying music video.
The song features on the soundtrack to 'Dark Nights: Death Metal', an epic DC Comics miniseries featuring Wonder Woman, Batman, Superman, Harley Quinn, Swamp Thing, the Batman Who Laughs, Superboy-Prime, and many others. Get it here.
“When people listen to Goodtime Girl, I want them to feel powerful. I want a girl who might normally feel like she’s awkward or insecure to put her headphones on and feel like she can accomplish anything,” Arrow de Wilde said of the song. “Like she’s the hottest and the baddest bitch in the world, because she is. Goodtime girl is about realizing your power and taking complete control of that. I wish I had a song like this when I was in middle or high school, if I did I may have been a lot more confident with myself at the time.”
The video, featuring cameos from Danny Trejo and David Hasselhoff was directed by Gilbert Trejo. Watch it below.
“Fontaines D.C… what can I say except they exude authenticity. One day in Rotterdam in mid-July 2020, I got an Instagram direct message from the label offering me the vinyl as they spotted I was a fan. Within a day, it was established that a remix also made sense too, so out of the blue came something wonderful.” – Dave Clarke
Dublin rock n' roll band Fontaines D.C. have revealed the Soulwax Remix of their song "A Hero's Death".
The remix is out now, get it here. The original version is taken from their latest album "A Hero's Death", which came out in July 2020 through Partisan Records. Get your copy here.
KOOL ROCK RADIO ► THE 100 BEST ALBUMS OF 2020 (A to Z)
2020 has been a long (or very short?) and complicated year, but at least there were lots of excellent songs and albums to distract us from everything going on in the world. We want to thank all of those incredible bands that despite the circumstances have managed to release fantastic records. With hundreds of new albums to choose from, it was impossible to select only 50, so we have picked 100 essential albums for 2020.
Here are Kool Rock radio's staff 100 favorite albums of 2020, listed in alphabetical order:
Scottish dreamy rock n' roll band Shambolics have shared the video for their new single "Love Collides".
The song is out today (October 2) via Creation23. Buy it here.
“Love is colliding but we can keep it together," the band's Darren Forbes said of the new track. Explaining its cathartic journey, he added: “the track contrasts between minor key and lyrics about how everything is breaking and then opens up in the chorus in a major key with optimistic lyrics."
Dublin rock n' roll band Fontaines D.C. have released the video for their latest single "A Lucid Dream".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their second studio album "A Hero's Death", which came out in July through Partisan Records. Get your copy here.
The video was directed by Jordan Martin. Watch it below.
Dublin rock n' roll band Fontaines D.C. have released the video for their excellent new single "Televised Mind".
The song is taken from their upcoming second studio album "A Hero's Death", which will be out on 31st July through Partisan Records. Pre-order your copy here.
UPDATE 06/07/2020: "Televised Mind" is our new Single of the Week!
Frontman Grian Chatten explains: “This song is about the echo chamber and how personality gets stripped away by surrounding approval. People’s opinions get reinforced by constant agreement, and we’re robbed of our ability to feel wrong.
“We’re never really given the education of our own fallibility. People feign these great beliefs in order to appear trendy, as opposed to independently arriving at their own thoughts.
“We were listening to a lot of The Prodigy and The Brian Jonestown Massacre, specifically their song Open Heart Surgery. I was interested in extrapolating those types of chord progressions and capturing this droning, hypnotic feel. That last line repeated over and over, ‘What ya call it’ is a buffer expression that people used here in Dublin. It’s sort of like ‘umm’ or ‘well…’ – it’s what people say when they’re distracted.”
The video was directed by Hugh Mulhern. Watch it below.
Dublin rock n' roll band Fontaines D.C. have shared the video for their new single "I Don't Belong".
The song is taken from their upcoming second studio album "A Hero's Death", which will be out on 31st July through Partisan Records. Pre-order your copy here.
The video was directed by Conor Deegan III. Watch it below.
Dublin rock n' roll band Fontaines D.C. have announced the release of their second studio album "A Hero's Death".
The follow-up to last years debut Dogrel, will be out on 31st July through Partisan Records. Pre-order your copy here.
The band's words: "It feels like time hasn’t ticked since we announced our first record just over a year ago. We wrote these songs during the 12 months after finishing ‘Dogrel’ as a necessary reaction to assure ourselves we will always be the band we set out to be. A sincere thank you to everyone who has supported our music since and before then."
The announcement comes with the music video for the title track, starring Irish actor Aidan Gillen, best known for his roles in Game of Thrones, Peaky Blinders, and The Wire.
According to singer Grian Chatten, the album’s name was inspired by a line in a play by Irish writer Brendan Behan, and the title track is an effort to balance sincerity and insincerity. “The song is a list of rules for the self, they’re principles for self-prescribed happiness that can often hang by a thread,” he said in a statement. “It’s ostensibly a positive message, but with repetition comes different meanings, that’s what happens to mantras when you test them over and over.”
Check out the album's tracklist and the video for "A Hero's Death" below.
Los Angeles rock n' roll/punk/surf garage band The Buttertones have aired the video for their latest single "Denial You Win Again".
The song is part of our current playlist and is taken from their recent album 'Jazzhound', released on April 10th via Innovative Leisure. Grab your copy here.
The video was directed by William Sipos. Watch it below.
