LIVE: FORMATION – 24/03/2017
Matt & Will Ritson, Formation – NIGHT & DAY CAFE, MANCHESTER – It’s a special day for Formation before they even step on the jam-packed-full of equipment corner stage at the Night and Day Cafe. It’s the release day of their debut album, Look at the Powerful People. The five-piece, founded by twins Will and Matt Ritson, walk on stage under the cover of darkness and the crowd that’s loosely littered around the venue suddenly clamour toward the back of it,... Read More
LIVE: JACQUES GREENE – 24/03/2017
Jacques Greene – SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER – Jacques Greene’s new album Feel Infinite was released but days ago, an exquisite deep house album with some great vocal collaborations and banging basslines (listen to ‘I Won’t Judge’, I urge you) . The electronic music diehards have been in need of a 2017 album to dance to. Although he has produced and remixed tracks for the likes of Radiohead, Ciara and Frank Ocean, this is somehow his first official album,... Read More
LIVE: THUNDERCAT – 23/03/2017
Thundercat – GORILLA, MANCHESTER – I first recall listening to Stephen Bruner, alias Thundercat, in 2014, accompanying Taylor McFerrin (child of Bobby) on his debut album Early Riser, released on Flying Lotus’s Brainfeeder label. It was only upon further investigation that I clocked he was, sub-rosa, in my record (and, admittedly, CD) collection. In 2008 and 2010 he worked on both of Erykah Badu’s New Amerykah albums, Pt. 1 and 2 respectively. In 2015, he would... Read More
LIVE: THE GARDEN – 21/03/2017
The Garden – SOUP KITCHEN, MANCHESTER – Soup Kitchen is sticky, dank and a scene of squalor… it’s perfect for The Garden. Despite the glossy, cartoony sound the Shears brothers have recently embarked on with ‘Call This # Now’ and ‘California Here We Go’, there’s a definite element of filthiness as they explode onto stage tonight with ‘U Want The Scoop?’ Well here’s the scoop, they’re fucking boss. I was supposed... Read More
LAB COAST DEBUT UK ALBUM OUT MAY WITH UK TOUR HAPPENING MAY AND JUNE
Lab Coast Calgary, Alberta’s Lab Coast announce their first official UK release; a self-titled collection of songs on one album cherry-picked from the band’s extensive back catalogue by Faux Discx overseer Dan Reeves and the band themselves. Due to be released Friday 12th May 2017, it acts as an introduction to a highly prolific band, and a showcase for their highly refined ability to consistently knock clever, catchy pop songs out of the park. See full tracklisting and... Read More
Silent Radio – 25th March 2017 – MCR Live Residents
On a glorious sunny day, Silent Vic, Simon, Max and Adam lovingly bring you a selection of the bands and acts hitting Manchester in the coming week, those making the silentradio.co.uk headlines and round up the week’s music news stories.The Silent Radio Show was born in March 2014 and is regularly found in the the top 40 Mixcloud charts. Known for its unbiased and anti-smug approach to music journalism, SilentRadio.co.uk champions emerging musicians, smaller venues and... Read More
CLEVER THING FIX US UP WITH NEW SINGLE ‘FIXER-UPPER’ – LISTEN HERE
Clever Thing have already amassed a heavy arsenal of blistering tracks, and cemented their place as one of Brighton’s favourite live bands, but a single listen of ‘Fixer Upper’ confirms this as their boldest output yet. On Friday 28th April 2017 the bands follow up single to last years ‘In A Tissy’ will be released via DIY purveyors of local psych, Be Pacific. The strikingly angular track is a primitive delight – lyrically sharp and a frenzy of jilted riffs and dense... Read More
LIVE: ELBOW – 19/03/2017
Elbow – O2 APOLLO, MANCHESTER – Music forms the soundtrack to our lives, the bedrock beats that orientate us through relationships, friendships, heartache, like fluorescent buoys in the sea. An example. I began (re)dating my high schoool sweetheart in early 2006 – around 25 years after the first time – and just around the time the Elbow album Leaders of the Free World rattled through the PAs of the coffee shops and bars of our town. I lived in the Northern... Read More
PORTUGUESE SISTERS PEGA MONSTRO’S NEW ALBUM ‘CASA DE CIMA’ OUT JUNE
Pega Monstro Following international acclaim for their last album Alfarroba, Portuguese dream-punk sisters, Pega Monstro return, with their third album entitled Casa de Cima, which translates as “Upper House”. The album is due to be released on Friday 2nd June 2017, and shares its name with the Villa in which the album was recorded, nestled amongst the pine-scattered terrain of the Sintra mountains. Pega Monstro are sisters Julia Reis (drums) and Maria Reis (guitar),... Read More
GORILLAZ LOOK FOR ‘HUMANZ’ ON NEW ALBUM… WATCH ‘SATURNZ BARZ’ VIDEO HERE
Gorillaz are back. The world’s most successful virtual band will make their highly anticipated return, with a new studio album titled Humanz. The new album is to be released by Parlophone Records on Friday 28th April, 2017. Produced by Gorillaz, The Twilight Tone of D /\ P and Remi Kabaka and recorded in London, Paris, New York, Chicago and Jamaica; Humanz comes seven years on from the release of albums The Fall, and Plastic Beach. Murdoc Niccals (bass), Noodle (guitar), Russel... Read More
