LIVE: HAMILTON LEITHAUSER – 10/03/2017
Hamilton Leithauser – GORILLA, MANCHESTER – When you think of the New York City indie rock scene, you instantly recall bands like The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, Interpol and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs surfacing in the first knockings of the new millennium. Before that Sonic Youth, The Velvet Underground and Blondie pioneered the movement in The Big Apple. What’s often overlooked is the city’s second wave of indie, which came towards the end of the first decade of this... Read More
RUSSIA’S GNOOMES SHARE NEW SONG ‘SEVEROKAMSK’
Ahead of the release of their new album, Tschak! next Friday (10th March 2017) via Rocket Recordings, Russia’s Gnoomes have unveiled a second song, titled ‘Severokamsk’. The band say of the song, “Severokamsk is a track about total isolation. It’s the name of a village that is close to our city but where you can feel as though you were born in XIX century. It’s a story about a boy who is dreaming about a better world living in this very place.... Read More
Silent Radio – 11th March 2017 – MCR Live Residents
A selection of the bands and acts hitting Manchester in the coming week and those making the silentradio.co.uk headlines. Plus a chat with MCR Live stable mate Tom Cheesewright about his Book Of The Future podcast and an interview with Hot Chip’s Alexis Taylor ahead of his upcoming St Michael’s gig. TRACK LISTING Dutch Uncles – Oh Yeah / Phobophobes – The Never Never / Wild Child – Pillow Talk / Bernard + Edith – Dagger / Paddy... Read More
LIVE: MITSKI – 09/03/2017
Mitski – THE RUBY LOUNGE, MANCHESTER – New York-based musician Mitski’s first Manchester show was as recent as October last year at the Deaf Institute, but it seems she enjoyed herself as she’s back in town already. Daylight hours today were all clear-skied and spring-like, so maybe she made the most of the day with a mooch around the Northern Quarter and found some familiarity there with parts of her hometown. Tonight’s show at The Ruby Lounge, which has a slightly... Read More
PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING BELIEVE IN ‘PROGRESS’ ON NEW SINGLE
‘I believe in progress’. As statements go, it’s a pretty powerful one, and entirely suitable for Public Service Broadcasting. They are a band who have risen from eccentric, self-releasing, DIY outsiders to major festival mainstays and radio favourites in seemingly no time at all. With their new single ‘Progress’, set to impact on Friday 5th of May 2017, the single will be the latest tale in the ever-engrossing PSB story. ‘Progress’ is taken... Read More
INTRODUCING BRIGHT YOUNG PEOPLE WITH THEIR NEW SINGLE & VIDEO FOR ‘SUPPRESS HAPPINESS’
Bright Young People North Wales guitar bandits, Bright Young People have come knocking firmly at the door with new single ‘Suppress Happiness’. Due for release on Friday 17th March 2017; watch the video for it below. The Rhyl 3-piece made such an overwhelming first impression on Gary Powell of The Libertines that he signed them up to his label 25 Hour Convenience Store on the spot after witnessing their near-riotous show at London’s Shacklewell Arms last year. Their latest... Read More
PHOBOPHOBES SHARE SINISTER NEW VIDEO ‘THE NEVER NEVER’
Ahead of their single launch show at MOTH Club on Monday 13th March 2017 with Dead Pretties, South London’s Phobophobes have shared a mesmerising new video for ‘The Never Never’. It’s a video led by interpretive dance, and will be the feature of their forthcoming 7”. ‘The Never Never’ will be due for release on Friday 24th March 2017 via Ra-Ra Rok Records. Watch the video below. Featuring “threatening interpretive dance, petrifying purple smoke... Read More
SYLVAN ESSO ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM PLUS THEIR NEW SONG & VIDEO ‘DIE YOUNG’
Sylvan Esso – Amelia Meath & Nick Sanborn – have just announced their long awaited new album, What Now. The album will be released on Friday 28th April 2017 via Loma Vista Recordings. Anticipation has been building for the follow-up to their 2014 eponymous debut album, with the band releasing two tracks from the new album, ‘Radio’ and ‘Kick Jump Twist’. The band have also just shared another track off the record, titled ‘Die Young’.... Read More
LIVE: PEANESS – 08/03/2017
Peaness @Karishmacookie photo credit – THE CASTLE HOTEL, MANCHESTER – As far as selling out your first Manchester headline show goes, it can only be a good thing. Even in a modestly sized venue such as The Castle, it’s an intimate setting to get to know your fans. Tonight, a few have travelled from Chester; the birthplace of Peaness. Okay, that’s the only joke I’m going to write (no promises). The band, no doubt, have heard them all before, and there are no jokes made... Read More
LIVE: DUSST / LAVENDER / WILD BIRDS OF BRITAIN – 06/03/2017
Dusst – GULLIVERS, MANCHESTER – A wiser man than I once said, “writing about music is like dancing about architecture”, and although I don’t usually buy into this façade, nights like this make me think otherwise. In a poorly lit attic above a pub in the heart of the Northern Quarter, the future of British psychedelic rock has just appeared before my eyes. They are called Dusst, and they’ve just performed possibly the best gig I’ve ever been to. The... Read More
