LIVE: FUR / HONEY MOON – 12/02/2019

-THE CASTLE HOTEL, MANCHESTER- A glimpse of summer is brought to us during this harsh winter with edgy-on-the-outside/soft-on-the-inside aesthetic from supporting band Honey Moon; familiar to that sensation you get from a lemon soother, settling your cold down, even if it’s just for a little bit. When I first saw the name of the support, […]

LIVE: WILD NOTHING / J FERNANDEZ – 11/02/2019

-YES, MANCHESTER- Wild Nothing are a group hellbent on melting my insides via extreme doses of summertime nostalgia and as they step onto the stage, I anticipate an epic singalong where only I will be vocal. That’s right, the dickhead in the Carhartt with his arms in the air all night is me, what you […]

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ALBUM: METHYL ETHEL – TRIAGE

2019 could not be off to a better start than with the release of one the most anticipated Australian albums of the year, Methyl Ethel’s ‘Triage’. Fresh off the success of 2017’s ‘Everything is Forgotten’ which reached #16 on the Australian charts and #28 on NME’s Albums of the Year awards, big things are expected […]

LIVE: SURFBORT / BLEACH BOY – 13/02/2019

-SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER- Bleach Boy We start the evening with what I assume is a Seattleite-redux; the guitars and drums shine the brightest (I suppose being the loudest helps), all the while their brand of militant distortion devolving into a kind of sonic mush, whereby the vocals and bass suffer in the sense that… you […]

LIVE: JIMOTHY – 10/02/2019

-GORILLA, MANCHESTER- Inadvertently on a mission to prove you don’t have to be a lyrical miracle to be a rap god, London’s number one alternative son Jimothy is setting the scene alight. Recently announcing on the Romesh Ranganathan podcast ‘Hip Hop Saved My Life’ that he was ditching the Lacoste section of his quirky pseudonym, […]

WHY THE LIVE STREAMING OF GIGS IS A PRO, NOT A CON

INTERVIEW – IDLES (Joe & Bowen)

ALBUM: WHITE FENCE – I HAVE TO FEED LARRY’S HAWK

The Lake District has inspired many artists over the years, the most surprising recent convert being Californian garage rocker Tim Presley. After relocating from LA to San Francisco, he then upped sticks again and ended up in Stavelely, in the Lakes, in the depths of winter, with fellow songwriter Cate Le Bon. While she was […]

LIVE: DAMMIT I’M MAD – 06/02/2019

-THE PEER HAT, MANCHESTER- We have a wealth of support acts in store at the Peer Hat tonight, and some excellent craft beers to accompany us. It’s a nice place for a drink as well as a gig. Chaos LOL gets his five-minute warning and hastily drops some super-heavy gabba before throwing down some polyrhythmic […]

JIMMY’S LAST STAND

FAKE LAUGH ANNOUNCES NEW AA-SINGLE

JACKIE MENDOZA SHARES NEW VIDEO & SINGLE ‘DE LEJOS’

RAYLAND BAXTER SHARES ‘HEY LAROCCO’ VIDEO

TALL SHAVES – TWO FOR TUESDAYS EP

LIVE: THE RESIDENTS – 05/02/2019

-GORILLA, MANCHESTER- I came here to review a critically-acclaimed US group who rose to fame in the 1970’s, who appeared in heavy rotation in the early days of MTV, who released over forty albums, nearly as many compilations and created dozens of multimedia projects. What I am seeing, at a packed, sold out Gorilla, is […]

MONEY FOR ROPE SHARE NEW VIDEO FOR ‘ACTUALLY’

HONEY 2 HONEY ANNOUNCE DEBUT EP ‘A TASTE OF’

LAMBCHOP SHARE ‘EVERYTHING FOR YOU’ VIDEO

ELENA SETIÉN RELEASES VIDEO FOR “ANOTHER KIND OF REVOLUTION”

LIVE: HEAVY LUNGS / VULGARIANS – 31/01/2019

-THE CASTLE HOTEL, MANCHESTER- After hearing much hype over Heavy Lungs over the past six months, supporting Idles and listening to their two EPs, I felt like this was the last time I would see them in a small intimate venue such as the Castle Hotel. The hype before the gig is great, I have […]

LIVE: PHOBOPHOBES / FEMUR – 31/01/2019

-NIGHT AND DAY CAFE, MANCHESTER- FEMUR: The introduction manifests itself into a 4 piece that seemingly make inflicting moderate hearing damage on the spectators present their goal for the evening. The synopsis for this band features a lumbering, somewhat heavy-handed approach (doom metal?) to drumming, guitars that screech, zzzzzzzzzzzzzuzzzzz and just about do everything else […]

SILENT RADIO’S 2018 HIGHLIGHTS AND 2019 EXCITEMENTS

DISINTEGRATION STATE TO BRING A NIGHT OF EXPERIMENTAL ELECTRONICS

MADA CRAM RELEASE NEW SONG + VIDEO “TO THE UNKNOWN”

HENGE ANNOUNCED AS WINNER OF THE ‘LIVE ACT OF THE YEAR’ AWARD

J FERNANDEZ SHARES NEW SINGLE “VOLCANIC WINTER” FROM THE ALBUM “OCCASIONAL DIN”

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