ALBUM REVIEW: GOAT GIRL – ON ALL FOURS

Do you remember that really cool post-punk band Goat Girl? They released that quirky album a few years back that was littered with hidden gems like ‘The Man’ and ‘Country Sleaze’? If you don’t recall them it’s fine, because now they’ve delivered something that nobody will be forgetting any time soon. Goat Girl are South […]
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ALBUM REVIEW: SHAME – DRUNK TANK PINK

‘Shame! Shame! Shame!’ No, you haven’t landed in an episode of Game of Thrones or Boris Johnson’s email inbox, but the review for the new Shame album “Drunk Tank Pink”. The alt-rock/post-punk band return with their second album, the bigger and better follow up to their promising debut.  The album itself goes bigger than the […]

GIG GUIDE

Between September 2011 and March 2020 we provided a handpicked gig guide every month without fail. It's painful for us that there are currently no gigs to recommend. We hope gigs will return soon to bring you new recommendations, but if you want to reminisce you can still see nine years worth of old gig guides.

ALBUM REVIEW: HERE LIES MAN – RITUAL DIVINATION

Here Lies Man vocalist Marcos Garcia says, of their new album Ritual Divination: ‘It’s an inward psychedelic journey, the album is the trip’. He says ‘Musically, it’s an opening up more to traditional rock elements.’ – and it’s easy to hear Black Sabbath and Steppenwolf and the retro theatre organ evokes Hush by Deep Purple. […]

ALBUM REVIEW: THE KILLS – LITTLE BASTARDS

As a happy accident of this devastating, pandemic situation, Domino Records’ boss Laurence Bell came up with the wonderful idea of gathering The Kills’ B sides and rarities in a double album, aptly titled “Little Bastards”: A bunch of 20 lost, hidden-in-digital-platforms gems that the British-American duo released between 2002-09.  All tracks have been remastered by […]

ALBUM REVIEW: THE AVALANCHES – WE WILL ALWAYS LOVE YOU

As 2020 (thankfully) draws to a close and the “best albums of 2020” lists published, I’m hoping there remains a spot for this cosmically inspired entry from the sample-based group The Avalanches. This album was four years in the making, compared to the sixteen gap between their critically lauded first album ‘Since I Left You’ […]

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SINGLE REVIEW: SHALLOW WATERS – THE GOD YOU KNOW YOU ARE

Arriving at a time of great uncertainty, Shallow Waters new single “The God You Know You Are” gives listeners the keys to a world to get lost in. The band originate from Wigan (aka the pie capital of Britain) and bring with them an expansive single that announces their ambitions clearer than a foghorn on […]

ALBUM REVIEW: KING GIZZARD & THE LIZARD WIZARD – KG

Since the release of 2017’s Flying Microtonal Banana, Australian psych-rockers King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard have always hinted at further exploration into the world of microtonal tuning. Now studio album number sixteen KG, finally delivers with an amalgamation of microtones and essences of previous albums adding to their ever-present and diverse musical odysseys. Beginning […]

INTERVIEW: REGENT

Debut Album ‘badminton’ from Lokoy Is Out Now

CORY HANSON RELEASES VIDEO FOR NEW SONG ‘ANGELES’ TAKEN FROM ALBUM DUE OUT IN MARCH

GLASGOW’S BABY STRANGE UNVEIL NEW SINGLE ‘MORE! MORE! MORE!’

VIDEO RELEASED FOR TITLE TRACK OF DJANGO DJANGO’S UPCOMING NEW ALBUM ‘GLOWING IN THE DARK’

R.O.C

VIDEO PREMIERE: R.O.C ‘COME BACK JONEE’ + Q&A WITH THE BAND

We’re delighted to present the video premiere of ‘Come Back Jonee’ by R.O.C. The video is for their cover of the Devo song that featured on last year’s ‘Bile & Celestial Beauty’ album. In addition to the video, on December 10th R.O.C will also release a free remix of the song and a film of […]

BRIGHTON’S PUBLIC BODY UNVEIL NEW SINGLE ‘TABLE MANNERS’

BEANS ON TOAST UNVEILS NEW VIDEO FOR ‘THE ALBUM OF THE DAY’

NEW EELS VIDEO FOR “QUARANTINE DAYDREAM” SINGLE ‘ARE WE ALRIGHT AGAIN’ UNVEILED

NEW SINGLE ‘INNER VERSIONS’ UNVEILED BY HEAVY SALAD AHEAD OF DEBUT ALBUM RELEASE

Bradford

Q&A WITH BRADFORD AS THEY PREPARE TO RELEASE A NEW ALBUM

Bradford make their return in 2021, with their first album in over 30 years. Their new album, ‘Bright Hours’, will feature the acclaimed producer Stephen Street and two other original members of the band (Ian H and Ewan Butler). They have so far released two singles from the upcoming album. The debut single, ‘Like Water’, […]
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Open AI – Music by Machines

Over the last ten years or so, I’ve written over 100 reviews for Silent Radio (woohoo!), but I feel increasingly out of touch with modern music (and reality) as I listen to a passable Frank Sinatra impersonation with full backing band singing “On Christmas day / a true unholy beast / went down to hell […]

Non-Ferrous Types of Metal Titles… of Quality

NORWAY’S POM POKO RELEASE VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE ‘LIKE A LADY’

NEW SINGLE ‘GREY TOWER’ RELEASED BY LOST HORIZONS AHEAD OF NEW ALBUM ‘IN QUIET MOMENTS’

BRISTOL’S LYNKS UNVEILS NEW SINGLE ‘BRAND NEW FACE’

NEW SINGLE ‘NOWHERE, MAN’ RELEASED BY TUNE-YARDS

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