Steam Powered Giraffe (SPG) announced new tour dates for 2025, which will take their show outside the San Diego area for the first time since the Covid-19 pandemic.
It’s our favorite track from their 2024 debut album Songs From The End Of The Pier.
Australian singer-songwriter Velvet Jeanie released a music video featuring “The Causeway Song,” an original sea shanty from her 2023 self-titled debut album. She recorded it at a maritime museum in Adelaide.
Professor Elemental celebrated Valentine’s Day with the release of The Love Album, in which the chap hop maestro waxes poetic on matters of the heart. Once again, he’s assisted by longtime collaborator Tom Caruana.
New albums from Frenchy and the Punk, Steam Powered Giraffe, and Abney Park were just a few of last year’s musical highlights in the steampunk world. We have a roundup.
In the U.S., January 1 wasn’t just New Year’s Day. It was also Public Domain Day, when creative works from 1929 and sound recordings from 1924 entered the public domain. This year’s batch is a good one.
Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq., the “uke-toting, tweed-clad troubadour” from Bedford, U.K., is out with his fourth album, Carry On While The World Burns. As with his previous releases, the album delivers catchy, old-timey tunes with humorous takes on culture, politics, and the challenges of everyday life.
Lee Presson and the Nails have retired from live performances, but Presson is still bringing the swing band together for music videos. His latest is “Friend Like Me,” a cover of a song from the 1992 Disney movie Aladdin.
Her latest collection of cover songs is “extra sultry and vibey,” she writes, “including many of the tunes previously released in the EPs Music to Snuggle Your Old Lady To and Music to Pine For Your Old Lady To.”
Neovenator, a band of self-described “steampunk oddballs” from the U.K., have been performing since 2021. Now they’re out with their first full-length album, Songs from the End of the Pier.
In his latest adventure, the chap hop artist goes in search of Geoffrey, his terrible yet beloved orangutan butler. The album continues a storyline from his 2021 album Nemesis. It’s available now on Bandcamp.
Lost to the Night is available now on CD and as a free digital download. A vinyl version is set to ship in November. Tracks are based on Bram Stoker’s Dracula along with works by Edgar Allan Poe and Emily Brontë.
The chap hop maestro joined forces with frequent collaborator Tom Caruana to produce “this unholy concoction of new songs, instrumentals, remixes, and horrors.” He’s also gearing up for the next Festival of Whimsy near Brighton.
The album is billed as a “musical rollercoaster of emotions.” It features nine tracks, including the previously released single “Pay It Forward,” plus collaborations with Professor Elemental and Thomas Benjamin Wild Esq.
Big, unwelcome changes are coming to Patreon, the monetization platform used by many steampunk creators, due to requirements imposed by Apple’s App Store. The moves prompted Unwoman to announce that she is leaving the platform.
A bit sooner than expected, Frenchy and the Punk are out with their eighth album, Midnight Garden, just two months after concluding a successful Kickstarter campaign for the release.
The new release, Ghosts, Demons and Ancient Lore, will be accompanied by a story collection. It’s the first time the band has used Kickstarter to fund a studio album.
The musical robots of Steam Powered Giraffe have a new album in the works. Nine years ago, they produced tunes for the video game SteamWorld Heist, and in August they’re set to release music for the sequel.
Victor and the Bully has welcomed guitarist Frankie Doom, which led in a roundabout way to a new music video filmed at the historic Crossness Pumping Station in London.
Tyson Vick is crowdfunding a coffee table book that uses staged photography to tell a story about a steampunk monster hunter. Also: Gothic metal duo Valentine Wolfe is seeking funds for their first-ever album to be released on vinyl.
