LIVE: MARK LANEGAN BAND / DUKE GARWOOD – 21/06/2017

– THE RITZ, MANCHESTER – Did I mention it’s hot? I seem to spend half the day moaning about how nice the weather is at the moment, but at least I’m not off to spend an evening in a sweaty mosh pit, as Mark Lanegan’s newer material is more measured than his work with Screaming […]

LIVE: THE WEDDING PRESENT – 20/06/2017

– CENTRAL STATION, WREXHAM – I’ve been given license by the Silent Radio grandees to leave our Manchester stomping ground for unexplored North Walian pastures. Having been cruelly ruled out of the Manchester show with work commitments, I’m in Wrexham to watch The Wedding Present perform George Best in its entirety. Album shows are a […]

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LIVE: KING GIZZARD AND THE LIZARD WIZARD – 14/06/2017

– THE RITZ, MANCHESTER – I only found out I was coming to see King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard an hour before they come on stage tonight. No time for a shower – throw on an unwashed tee and out to the Albert Hall in a matter of moments. To say i’m frenzied is […]

LIVE: EVERYTHING EVERYTHING – 20/06/2017

– ALBERT HALL, MANCHESTER – Nobody’s list of priorities for a great gig is topped by seeing a band starting to tour a new album that won’t be out for a couple of months. When homeboys Everything Everything open with ‘Night of the Long Knives’, a song nobody present could possibly have heard yet, you […]

LIVE: OH SEES – 14/06/2017

– ACADEMY 1, MANCHESTER – “I lie awake until I sleep, I see the sky tear, and then it weeps,” sings the dangerously prolific bird-of-prey John Dwyer, as sheets of blood-sucking black rainbow arch over Manchester’s Academy 1 and suffocate. The founding-member and primary songwriter of Thee Oh Sees – now simply Oh Sees following […]

THE GOLDEN LION – A CULTURAL HUB IN AN UNLIKELY PLACE

WHO ARE YA? JAMES HOLT

LIVE: TYCHO – 07/06/2017

– ALBERT HALL, MANCHESTER – Closed-eye hallucinations gift light where there is none. When blood-pressure drops and the visual field darkens, baptismal blackness paints stars across the ceiling of your skull – scars across the sky that surf the seam between reality and illusion. When we shut ourselves to the world, and begin to drift […]

LIVE: DELIA DERBYSHIRE DAY – 10/06/2017

– BAND ON THE WALL, MANCHESTER – In the early hours of the morning at London’s Maida Vale Studios, Delia Derbyshire unravelled an entire reel of tape down the length of a long corridor. After finishing an almost-perfect track, she had identified a single note out of sync. The only way to correct it was […]

INTERVIEW: TOM HICKOX

CYMBALS SHARE THEIR VIDEO FOR ‘DECAY’ TAKEN FROM FORTHCOMING ALBUM OUT AUGUST

SYLVAN ESSO SHARES ‘THE GLOW’ AHEAD OF UK FESTIVAL DATES

FRANKIE ROSE ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM, UK TOUR & NEW SINGLE ‘TROUBLE’ WITH VIDEO – WATCH HERE

SEXTILE SHARE THE VIDEO THAT ACCOMPANIES THEIR INDUSTRIAL NEW SINGLE ‘ONE OF THESE’

ALBUM: ALT-J – RELAXER

RELAXER follows the Mercury Prize winning debut, An Awesome Wave and 2014’s #1 album This is All Yours. 2017 brings the notoriously tricky third album. Not that it has much to live up to… In my own experience, alt-J are incredibly good at dividing opinion. People either love or hate their quirky, awkward sound. I’ve […]

L.A. WITCH SET TO CAST THEIR SPELLS WITH NEW ALBUM ANNOUNCEMENT & NEW SINGLE ‘UNTITLED’

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING SHARE VIDEO FOR ‘THEY GAVE ME A LAMP’ (FT. HAIKU SALUT)

BEACH HOUSE SHARE THEIR VIDEO FOR ‘CHARIOT’ – WATCH IT HERE

ALDOUS HARDING REVEALS ‘BLEND’ VIDEO & AUTUMN UK TOUR

LIVE: MOLLY NILSSON / APOSTILLE – 02/06/2017

– SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER – A dark, incense filled basement crowded with goth types dressed in black doesn’t exactly scream pop music – this is a Molly Nilsson show though. Tonight she plays to a modest Soup Kitchen crowd, although her fan base is growing; she says the last time she played in Manchester it […]

LIVE: JULIEN BAKER / LAUREN DENITIZIO – 06/06/2017

– DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – The Deaf Institute is one of my favourite venues, it has a great setup and I have arrived early to finally get the chance at taking a proper seat on the comfy rear bleachers. It is definitely worth it as from the back of the room I can see everything: […]

WHO ARE YA? THE GNARWHALS

EVERYTHING EVERYTHING RETURN WITH BRAND NEW SINGLE & VIDEO FOR ‘CAN’T DO’ FROM UPCOMING ALBUM OUT AUGUST

MEADOWLARK SHARE ‘POSTCARDS’ VIDEO WITH DEBUT ALBUM ARRIVING LATER THIS MONTH

LONDON’S DANCEHALL SHARE THEIR VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE ‘VIRGIN’

NEW LABEL ALERT: MODERN SKY UK UNVEIL LABEL SAMPLER ‘THE FUTURE INFLUENCES THE PAST JUST AS MUCH AS THE FUTURE’

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