Right To Roam Festival

INTERVIEW: RIGHT TO ROAM FESTIVAL’S IVAN CROMPTON

As live music begins to emerge from its enforced hiatus, a multi-venue festival in Bolton is hoping to help kick-start a return of the marvels we’ve all been missing so dearly. To find out more we caught up with one of the organisers of the event, Ivan Crompton. Right to Roam is a brand new […]

INTERVIEW: FRANCIS LUNG

Francis Lung creates a timeless blend of psychedelic pop, which recalls the epic song writing of Elliott Smith, Harry Nilsson and Brian Wilson infused with a playful experimental edge, his new album ‘Miracle’ is bursting with melodies which take your ears to unexpected places. Formerly the bassist in WuLyf, Francis Lung is the moniker of  […]

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.

Clear Vinyl

A QUICK CATCH UP WITH CLEAR VINYL

Music is often talked about as a great form of therapy, whether that be listening to it or creating it, there is a lot to be taken from a song that can hit you lyrically where you live. Clear Vinyl, an up and coming Sheffield band have this quality in spades, and their new single […]

ALBUM REVIEW: THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES – WHEN GOD WAS GREAT

The sun is shining, it feels like summer, we’re in the mood… what better music to put on than some ska? No, sorry, that was a rhetorical question. The answer is “Nothing, ska is easy summertime tunes that remind you of being young in the late 90’s and it should be piped into the world […]

ALBUM REVIEW: ST VINCENT – DADDY’S HOME

Welcome back to the weird, wonderful, and downright enthralling world of St Vincent. St Vincent (aka Annie Clark) has been making music over the last two decades and growing in popularity and critical acclaim throughout six inventive records. Her 2017 record ‘Masseduction’ was her best yet, teaming up with the busiest man in pop music […]

A QUICK CATCH UP WITH HUNNYBEES

Non-Ferrous Types of Metal Titles… of Quality

INTERVIEW: CATHAL COUGHLAN

Cathal Coughlan has with a new album, the brilliant ‘Song of Co-Aklan’, his first in ten years. Seamlessly blending his lyrical prowess with fine indie melodies, the former Fatima Mansions and Microdisney man has returned with possibly his greatest work yet. We caught up with him to find out what’s behind the making of one […]

ALBUM REVIEW: ROYAL BLOOD – TYPHOONS

Royal Blood return with a bang! Or should that be a sidestep and groove, as this new version of Royal Blood is dance-driven but as riff heavy as ever, making for interesting listening. After scrapping the original version of this album and deciding to take it in a new direction, with clear influences from Daft […]

INTERVIEW: THE TELESCOPES

LISSIE IS ON A VOYAGE OF REDISCOVERY SHARING THE PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED SONG ‘ALL BE OKAY’

CHET FAKER GETS THE ROLLER BLADES OUT ON HIS LATEST SINGLE’S VIDEO TO MAKE PEOPLE ‘FEEL GOOD’

NICK WILSON PREVIEWS FORTHCOMING ‘NOW I’M FALLING’ ALBUM WITH LATEST SINGLE ‘YOURS TO TAKE’

THE SHADRACKS UNVEIL NEW SINGLE ‘YOU CAN’T LOSE’

ALBUM REVIEW: TEENAGE FANCLUB – ENDLESS ARCADE

Seeing Teenage Fanclub live again at the Academy 3 in 2018, reminded me just how uplifting music can be, well, their music at least. A large amount of time in my youth was spent listening to their records, whatever mood I was in, putting on a Teenage Fanclub album seemed to make the world that […]

HARTLEPOOL INDIE-POP TRIO MT. MISERY SHARE VIDEO FOR ‘TAKEN BY THE TIDE’

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING ANNOUNCE THEIR NEW ALBUM BRIGHT MAGIC AND SHARE NEW SINGLE/VIDEO ‘PEOPLE, LET’S DANCE’ FT. EERA

RED RIBBON REVEALS NEWLY RELEASED ALBUM TITLE TRACK ‘PLANET X’

RISING MIDLANDS INDIE-PUNKS THE NOVUS UNVEIL ‘CASTAWAY’

ALBUM REVIEW: ALAN VEGA – MUTADOR

I’d heard their name mentioned by some of my favourite bands, yet nothing prepared me for the whirlwind of noise induced melodic chaos which came blasting out of the radio, late one evening in my musically formative years. A sound that took you to the sonic boundaries of the deep, with melodies that entranced and full-on […]

ALBUM REVIEW: CORY HANSON – PALE HORSE RIDER

Cory Hanson’s second solo album finds the Wand singer conjuring up sounds reminiscent of long summers in Laurel Canyon, Hanson’s words floating effortlessly throughout the album, as if drifting on a warm ocean breeze. The fact that this album was recorded in a place called Cactopia, in the desert, surrounded by 6ft tall sculptural psychotropic cacti only […]

“Psychedelic” Titles That Happen To Be Of Quality

LONDON QUINTET SILVERTWIN RETURN WITH NEW TRACK ‘SAVIOUR’

DAS BEAT RELEASE FINAL SINGLE FROM DEBUT EP

‘PEAK BLEAK’ FOR LEEDS ART-ROCK OUTFIT MUSH WHO PURCHASE £100 EBOW TO RECORD THEIR LATEST TRACK

HOLLY HUMBERSTONE ANNOUNCES MANCHESTER YES HEADLINE FOR OCTOBER AND RELEASES ‘THE WALLS ARE WAY TOO THIN’

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