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Patchwork Rattlebag tease debut album with glitchy and ethereal electronica single ‘Hook, Line and Riser’

Published

8 months ago

October 3, 2025

Don Reed

Salford based experimental collective, Patchwork Rattlebag have released ‘Hook, Line and Riser’, the first single from their forthcoming album ‘Fragments 1’.

Frequently incorporating other artforms, the group constructs music with a strong vocal presence, featuring instruments, synthesisers, field recordings and beats. Consisting of three core members who value collaboration and curiosity, Patchwork Rattlebag traverse the spaces between the visual, audible, invisible and ineffable.

‘Hook, Line and Riser’ features glitchy, beat-driven electronica and overlapping, ethereal, and sometimes disorienting vocals to explore the question: ‘What does it mean to be the same but altered?’.

The track is made up of part/whole relationships and the collaboration of disparate parts. Expressed through uncompromising beats, ruthless basslines, relentless distorted synths, and concordant, Sardinian-influenced overtone voices, ‘Hook, Line and Riser’ presents fragmented images of subjective and social formation. The elements used to create the track form an unlikely totality, encapsulated in the phrase Sardinian singers use to describe an illusory voice created by the collective overtones of several vocalists: “la voce degli angeli”.

The accompanying music video for the track brings these ideas to life through data moshed environments featuring disembodied eyes, hands, and mouths, as well as medical imagery: individuals as parts of a whole.

Debut Patchwork Rattlebag album ‘Fragments 1’ is set for release on 21^st Nov via YMTC.

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Rocky Kramer’s Rock & Roll Tuesdays Presents “Loud & Proud” On Tuesday, June 9th, 2026 7 PM PT on Twitch

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10 hours ago

June 7, 2026

Jimmy Star

Rocky Kramer will be hosting “Loud & Proud” on this week’s episode of Rocky Kramer’s Rock & Roll Tuesdays on Twitch. Tune into Twitch on Tuesday, June 9^th, 2026 at 7 PM PT for this amazing show.

Rocky Kramer is a guitar virtuoso, often being compared to the greatest guitar players in the world. Rocky has performed on shows with some of the greatest musicians on the planet including Ozzy Osbourne, John Lodge, Steve Vai, Leland Sklar, Kenny Aronoff, Tommy James, Verdeen White, Ten Years After, BuckCherry, Rick Wakeman and more.

Rocky’s first studio album, “Firestorm” is now available worldwide through Allied Artists Music Group, together with an epic music video of his #1 Global DRT Chart topper single, “Rock Star”, that also picked up a Best Rock Performance nod at the 2019 Hollywood Music In Media Awards (“HMMA”).

Rocky Kramer recently returned to the studio to record his sophomore album “Alone In The Rain” which will be released soon!!!

Rocky Kramer was recently cast in The Mutt Productions/ Allied Artists rock n’ roll time travel comedy adventure “Rockin’ In Time” where he will play the film’s lead character, Lars Olsen. The film is being directed by Aaron Lee Lopez (of the “Teenage Girl” franchise) and is being produced by multi-platinum and six-time Grammy Award winning musician turned motion picture producer, Kurt Wipfli.

Rocky Kramer is now the new lead guitarist in Prescott Niles’ new revival of the legendary band The Knack. Known worldwide for their smash hit “My Sharona,” The Knack helped define the sound of late-1970s power pop and rock. Decades later, the band’s influence continues to resonate with fans and musicians across generations. With Rocky Kramer now joining the lineup, the band is poised to introduce that legacy to a new era of audiences while honoring the spirit that made them legendary.

Watch Rocky Kramer’s “Rock Star” Music Video here: