LIVE: THE SCHIZOPHONICS / SKY VALLEY MISTRESS / RIVAL BONES / SHALLOW WATERS – 09/08/2018

-NIGHT PEOPLE, MANCHESTER- This Thursday, something a little raucous is going down at Manchester’s hottest new venue Night People, with an explosive line up compiled by Psymmetry Collective and Fuzz Thursday. Opening are Wigan based stoner rock trio Shallow Waters. The band, whose influences include political movements and social realism, let their lyrics reflect this […]

LIVE: BLUEDOT FESTIVAL 2018 – SUNDAY

-JODRELL BANK OBSERVATORY, CHESHIRE- [The final of our three-part Bluedot Festival 2018 review, one for each day.] The press office is a dark-walled structure by an ice cream van. It is inauspicious; you peer into the café when you walk up the path, at the cups, buffet and cheap tables. Within it, however, I splutter […]

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LIVE: BLUEDOT FESTIVAL 2018 – SATURDAY

-JODRELL BANK OBSERVATORY, CHESHIRE- [The second of three parts of our Bluedot Festival 2018 review, one for each day. Come back over the next 24hrs for our coverage of Sunday’s festivities.] The morning is hotter than the fear of parasitic death. Sorry, but that’s the frame of thought I’m in after listening to Mark Taylor. […]

LIVE: BLUEDOT FESTIVAL 2018 – FRIDAY

-JODRELL BANK OBSERVATORY, CHESHIRE- [The first of three parts of our Bluedot Festival 2018 review, one for each day. Come back over the next 48hrs for our coverage of Saturday and Sunday’s festivities.] “All things are artificial,” goes the famous saying of Thomas Browne, one of our country’s most acrobatic thinkers, “for nature is the […]

ALBUM: TY SEGALL AND WHITE FENCE – JOY

By the time you read this review, Ty Segall will have probably released two more albums, three EPs and four collaborations with others, such is his prolific output. His last collaboration with White Fence, aka Tim Presley, ‘Hair’ released in 2012 was one of his best , those heavy guitar riffs met with lighter acoustic […]

INTERVIEW – IDLES (Joe & Bowen)

PIRATE PRODIGIES WHO ARE YA TAKE OVER – RIVAL BONES

LIVE: GEORGE CLINTON & PARLIAMENT FUNKADELIC – 07/07/2018

-ACADEMY, MANCHESTER- “‘The Holy Mothership’ is a means of transportation that can take you through not only space, but time, and we’re still travelling,” speaks all-star sonic architect and Parliament-Funkadelic founder George Clinton on his alter-ego Dr. Funkenstein’s musical voyager that was used as a primary means of mass-deliverance to a world that was unable […]

LIVE: STONEFIELD – 12/07/2018

-NIGHT AND DAY CAFE, MANCHESTER- Australia is no stranger to producing incredible musical talent as of late. The act of Findlay sisters, Amy, Hannah, Holly and Sarah is no exception. The band is also one of the latest products of the incomparable Melbourne-based label Flightless (home of King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard). On their […]

INTERVIEW (IN A CHIPPY): THE CHARLATANS

THE BREEDERS RELEASE HOMEMADE VIDEO FOR ‘NERVOUS MARY’

APHEX TWIN- COLLAPSE EP- HOOF VIDEO FOR T69 COLLAPSE NOW

SLEAFORD MODS – HEAR NEW TRACK + NEW EP DETAILS

CASSETTE STORE DAY 2018 RETURNS 13TH OCTOBER

LIVE: THE BREEDERS – 13/07/2018

-THE RITZ, MANCHESTER- There may have been several different Breeders line ups over the years, but for many, the foursome that takes to the stage at a sold out Ritz is the definitive one – the four who recorded the iconic album Last Splash in 1993 and more recently the new album All Nerve. Kicking […]

SINGLE: ROOTNOTES – MOVE TO THIS

WATCH FATHER JOHN MISTY’S BONKERS VIDEO FOR ‘DATE NIGHT’

THE BLINDERS ANNOUNCE UK TOUR + DETAILS OF DEBUT ALBUM

MEXRRISSEY TO PLAY HOMETOWN GIG (SORT OF)

ALBUM: BODEGA – ENDLESS SCROLL

They’re from Brooklyn, named after the term for a corner shop in NY, and play a frenetic stream of consciousness style racket – it’s easy to see why Parquet Courts’ guitarist, Austin Brown, has produced them, as they’re musically not a million miles away from his own band’s jagged guitar riffs and dry vocal style– […]

BLUEDOT FESTIVAL RETURNS FOR ITS THIRD YEAR, TICKETS STILL AVAILABLE

Bluedot Festival: Official | Facebook | Twitter “Look again at that dot. That’s here. That’s home. That’s us.” The words of the great cosmologist Carl Sagan, the spiritual godfather of Bluedot Festival, the annual celebration of music, science, arts, culture and exploration that this month returns for its third instalment. For the first time the […]

PIRATE PRODIGIES WHO ARE YA TAKE OVER – JAMES HOLT

HERE COMES PARKLIFE, YOU READY?

UNKNOWN MORTAL ORCHESTRA SHARE VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE ‘HUNNYBEE’

TEEN CREEPS – NEW VIDEO AND UK TOUR DATES

CHRIS HAWKINS TO JOIN SILENT RADIO FOR SOUND CITY+ SESSION

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