LIVE: ROB CROW’S GLOOMY PLACE / SWEET DEALS ON SURGERY / MINNA – 22/08/2017
Rob Crow -DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER- Something which has never happened in the history of live music is happening: a gig is running early. Yes, early. This means that we miss a couple of Minna‘s early offerings, but they make a tremendous racket. Information is non-existent on the presumably local trio, the drummer in a constant whirr while his face contorts as though he’s having his elbows pulled out of their sockets. The bassist is as dexterous as Frankie Boyle’s... Read More
ALBUM HOPES FOR 2017
Recent history tells us that if it’s a year ending in the number seven we’re in for some good music. In 1997 there was Radiohead’s OK Computer, Daft Punk’s debut and Blur’s self-titled album. 2007 only followed suit with releases such as Sound of Silver by LCD Soundsystem, In Rainbows by a returning to form Radiohead and Arcade Fire’s second album Neon Bible. Is 2017 about to break the trend though? We’re two thirds into the year and no one release has set the world... Read More
MEMBERS OF WIRE, COIL, AND TOMAGA COLLABORATE ON EXPERIMENTAL NEW RECORD AS UUUU WITH ALBUM OUT OCTOBER
Introducing UUUU, a new sonic powerhouse featuring Edvard Graham Lewis (Wire), Matthew Simms (Wire/It Hugs Back), Thighpaulsandra (Coil/Spiritualized) and Valentina Magaletti (Tomaga/The Oscillation). They are set to release their self-titled debut album on Friday 6th October 2017 via Editions Mego, and have shared a first taste with track ‘Verlagerung, Verlagerung, Verlagerung’. UUUU tracklisting: 1. The Latent Black Path Of Summons Served 2. Partial Response Takes... Read More
EXIT KID PREMIERE A NEW SURREAL 90’S AUSTRALIAN CHILDREN’S ENTERTAINERS WIGGLES-INSPIRED VIDEO FOR ‘CAESAR’
Exit Kid have premiered their new video for current single ‘Caesar’. A tongue-in-cheek performance video riffing on 90’s Australian children entertainers ‘The Wiggles’, it’s a mixed media affair directed and animated by American artist Joe Baughman (Sufjan Stevens / Wilco / Deerhoof /The Roots). With it’s chugging grungey guitars and soaring pop chorus, ‘Caesar’ is taken from Exit Kid’s self-titled debut EP released... Read More
MERSEYSIDE FIVE-PIECE PSYCHO COMEDY SHARE THE VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE ‘THE HANGMAN’
Lipstick-smeared, loose and dangerous, the rock and roll joyride of the Merseyside five-piece that is Psycho Comedy, career into summer with their new single ‘The Hangman’. An echoing and ominous cut of ‘insanity ‘rock and roll heralds the first of two, promised summer singles from the band as they release ‘The Hangman’ on Thursday 7th September 2017 via Deltasonic. Second single ‘Michigan State’ is slated to proceed ‘The Hangman’ on Thursday 14th September... Read More
CULT ITALIAN PSYCH BAND JULIE’S HAIRCUT MAKE MANCHESTER DEBUT THIS AUTUMN
Julie’s Haircut Grey Lantern and The Beauty Witch present Julie’s Haircut (Rocket Recordings) Soup Kitchen, Manchester Thursday 21st September 2017 Doors 7:30pm Tickets £6.50 (EXCL FEES) Julie’s Haircut Official | Facebook | Twitter | Instagram Read More
GHOSTPOET SHARES DARK & FOREBODING NEW SINGLE ‘DOPAMINE IF I DO’
On the back of Friday’s release of his fourth album Dark Days & Canapés through Play It Again Sam, Ghostpoet shares new track ‘Dopamine If I Do’. The track, which opens with a dark foreboding features Ghostpoet, aka Obaro Ejimiwe, contemplating and contrasting the idealistic vision of our hyper-connected world, with the epidemic of isolation it is responsible for. As he explains; “I wrote this one for any minds struggling to make sense of an increasingly... Read More
WAND PRODUCE SOME MAGIC WITH VIDEO FOR NEW SINGLE ‘BEE KARMA’
Los Angeles-based Wand release Plum, their new album, and second for Drag City, on Friday 22nd September 2017. And after sharing the title track, the band now presents the video for new single ‘Bee Karma’, and all its ascendant riffs. Wand’s Cory Hanson comments: “The video stars my brother Casey, as the clown that I drive around. Abby Banks shot all the footage of him in the car, then I shot all the double exposure dancing parts on a high school... Read More
CHAD VANGAALEN SHARES NEW TRACK ‘MIND-HIGHJACKER’S CURSE’ WITH NEW ALBUM OUT SEPTEMBER
Chad VanGaalen has shared ‘Mind Hijacker’s Curse’, from his forthcoming sixth album, Light Information, which comes out on Friday 8th September 2017 via Sub Pop (Flemish Eye in Canada). VanGaalen says of the song: “Mind Hijacker’s Curse is the outcome and side-effect of vacationing inside of, another organism’s consciousness. Once we can do this, I see the potential to forget your physical self, and just live inside of some other beings mind. Hook me up to... Read More
BRIX & THE EXTRICATED TO RELEASE NEW ALBUM ‘PART 2’ COINCIDING WITH THEIR UK TOUR
Brix & The Extricated Brix & The Extricated have revealed they will release their highly anticipated album Part 2 on Friday 22nd September 2017 on Blang Records, coinciding with their UK tour (see dates below). The band has – in the words of an old Fall lyric – something of a “track record”. Brix Smith-Start is a female rock icon of the indie and alternative era. Her 2016 autobiography, ‘The Rise, The Fall And The Rise’, detailed a hugely eventful... Read More
