LIVE: SUGAR / SPENGLER / HAHA SICK / CYNTHIA’S PERISCOPE – 07/03/2019
Spengler -BAND ON THE WALL, MANCHESTER- Free Vibes is a (who would have guessed!) free-entry event at Band On The Wall that seeks to introduce new and emerging artists a few times every month. For this week’s edition, Band On The Wall teamed up with Shell Zenner from Amazing Radio to bring Sugar, Spengler, Haha Sick, and Cynthia’s Periscope on stage – four different artists with four very different sounds. It is a shame that only a few people make it down to Free Vibes... Read More
MAC DEMARCO RELEASES LEAD TRACK FROM UPCOMING NEW ALBUM
Mac DeMarco (Photo Credit Christine Lai) Mac DeMarco will release his fourth full-length album, Here Comes The Cowboy, on May 10th 2019. The follow-up to 2017’s This Old Dog. Here Comes The Cowboy is the debut release on Mac’s Record Label, distributed in the UK via Caroline International. In conjunction with the recent announcement, he shares the waltzing lead single, Nobody, and an accompanying self-directed video. DeMarco and his band will be playing three live dates in... Read More
ALBUM REVIEW: MEAT PUPPETS – DUSTY NOTES
Legends of the American underground rock scene and catapulted into more mainstream attention after backing Nirvana on their MTV unplugged gig and album in 1993, songwriters Curt Kirkwood and Cris Kirkwood have been mainstays of the U.S. rock scene for years. Starting off as a hardcore band in the 80s, Meat Puppets evolved into a band that embraced others genres, most notably country and psychedelic rock, meaning that there’s always been more to them than the ‘alternative... Read More
ALBUM REVIEW: BIG GOLD DREAMS – A STORY OF SCOTTISH INDEPENDENT MUSIC 1977-1989
How to fit five albums worth of music into one moderately sized review? Not an easy task, as there’s one hundred and fifteen songs on this box set compilation, but it’s an aural feast for anyone with even the slightest interest in punk and indie! Although there’s been other compilations pulling together the origins of the Scottish punk, new wave, and indie scenes, none have seemingly done it as thoroughly as this one. Disc 1 has the punk and new wave era covered and there’s... Read More
FONTAINES D.C. UNVEIL NEW VIDEO FOR ‘ROY’S TUNE’
Fontaines D.C. (photo Richard Dumas) Over the last year, FONTAINES D.C. have released five critically acclaimed singles, all of which garnered considerable support both from radio, with the band A-listed at BBC Radio 6 Music for their last single ‘Big’, and from a vast range of international press, with the band featuring in a number of end of year lists. Now, following the announcement of their highly-anticipated debut album ‘Dogrel’, the band have shared a video... Read More
TRIBUTE TO KEITH FLINT – THE PIONEER OF AN ERA
Keith Flint Yesterday I woke up to what was an absolute shock to my heart, as I’m sure millions and millions of others over the world did too. Personally, at the age of 23 it was the first time a musician who I truly looked up to had taken his own life, for others I’m sure Chris Connell’s tragic suicide was hard to believe, but for me I could not ever really claim to of being a huge fan. Of course being 23 the year I was born 1996 was the year Fat of the Land was released,... Read More
VILE ASSEMBLY UNVEIL ‘LAST CENTURY MAN’ VIDEO AND ANNOUNCE GIGS
Vile Assembly – Last Century Man The Liverpool band Vile Assembly will release their storming new single ‘Last Century Man’ on Friday April 5th, a blistering rallying cry against careerist politicians, corporate culture and the worldwide exploitation of those most vulnerable. The single takes an uncompromising aim at politics, religion and the establishment through raw and infectious Punk Rock, this is Vile Assembly at their most vitriolic, but when these masters... Read More
SINGLE REVIEW: TINFOILS – ROYAL BABY MACHINE
Typically I don’t normally care for socio-political jabs in rock n’ roll; the commentary almost always finds itself doing a literal moon walk straight into the sanctimonious tavern of raised eyebrows (a real venue = nope). In this instance however, the Tinfoils pull an evasive manoeuvre on the aforementioned metaphor by the injecting the lyrics with humour; they blow a raspberry on the prevalent media hysteria/sycophancy coating the supposed Royal Family without straying into... Read More
JONNY KOSMO SHARES NEW VIDEO FOR ‘CIRCUS OF DREAMS’
Los Angeles artist Jonny Kosmo is no stranger to groove, most recently performing as the bassist for Los Angeles’ psych-pop synth outfit Mr. Elevator. Steeped in pop-strange composition and a rich history of musical theatre, Kosmo creates songs full of colour, movement, and imagination all while keeping ears dosed in a palette of shimmery soul. Kosmo’s solo debut demonstrates the dynamic hues and shapes his songwriting takes. His debut self-titled LP sees the invitation... Read More
LIVE: THE TWILIGHT SAD – 27/02/2019
The Twilight Sad -GORILLA, MANCHESTER- Sweet baby Jesus, The Twilight Sad (TTS) are an astonishingly good live band. Scrap that; they’re just an astonishingly good band full stop. Here to support their ridiculously great new album IT WON/T BE LIKE THIS ALL THE TIME (which, annoying punctuation and capitals aside, is their best effort since their peerless debut Fourteen Autumns and Fifteen Winters), the atmosphere is one of sheer anticipation for a show that could turn out to... Read More
