ACID BABY JESUS RETURN WITH THIRD LP ‘LILAC DAYS’ – OUT NOW
Acid Baby Jesus It’s easy to guess Acid Baby Jesus’ shtick just going on their name but to those who aren’t already in the know: don’t be fooled into thinking these are just another quasi-religious, LSD-loving psych-rock band – these Greek garage-rockers are big news on the international psych/rock’n’roll scene. Acid Baby Jesus are more concerned with pure, unadulterated garage-rock hedonism. Formed in Athens in 2009 the four-piece have two LPs behind them... Read More
LIVE – LIVERPOOL INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PSYCHEDELIA 2017
Photo’s by Peter Rea There’s still time to fit in another festival this year, isn’t there? This ‘summer’ has been like an extended autumn anyhow, so it doesn’t really make a difference. Spending the weekend in an industrial estate not far from Liverpool city centre and the docks has become an annual ritual for me, and a must – an event that showcases experimental, trippy, dark, weird and wonderful sounds that have been developed from all... Read More
SOUND CITY IS ZIPPING UP ITS BOOTS AND GOING BACK TO ITS ROOTS IN THE CITY CENTRE FOR 2018
Sound City, the latest edition of the award-winning metropolitan festival of live music and arts, takes place on the Saturday 5th and Sunday 6th May 2018 to kick-start the UK season in style. Early bird tickets go on sale at 9am today. The festival has earned a reputation for its inventive use of a wide variety of spaces over the years – from cavernous warehouses, through to setting up a stage on the banks of the Mersey, and this is set to continue in the spring. Though... Read More
OCTOBER 2017
FREE GIG GUIDE ANDROID APP HEREWe have trawled through the forthcoming gigs in and around Manchester so you don’t have to. We believe that if we are going to recommend a gig to you, then it should be exactly that, a recommendation. Our gig guide is handpicked and every act has been listened to before making it onto the list. It has been compiled by the ears of our editors and not by any promoters, band’s management or PR’s. If we’ve missed anything please feel free... Read More
BELLE AND SEBASTIAN REVEAL VIDEO FOR ‘WE WERE BEAUTIFUL’ PLUS 2018 UK TOUR DATES
Belle and Sebastian have revealed the video for their recently released single, ‘We Were Beautiful’. Directed by Blair Young from The Forest of Black and filmed throughout the band’s native Glasgow (where they also recorded and produced the track), the video presents a cinematic slice of life — and all of the pain, joy, confusion, and love that comes with it — as the city wakes up over a Saturday morning. Having recently wrapped up a North American tour, and... Read More
LIVE: NICK CAVE AND THE BAD SEEDS – 25/09/2017
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds -MANCHESTER ARENA- There’s a part near the beginning of the recent Nick Cave documentary, which charts the making of Skeleton Tree, his latest album with the Bad Seeds, in which he says: “Isn’t it the invisible things, the lost things, that have so much mass? And are as big as the universe?” Cave has recently suffered a terrible loss – his son died in a tragic accident during the recording of the album. He later said of the... Read More
ARIEL PINK RELEASES NEW ‘DEDICATED TO BOBBY JAMESON’ – LISTEN TO ‘FEELS LIKE HEAVEN’ NOW
Ariel Pink has just released his new album, Dedicated to Bobby Jameson. The recording is his first solo album since 2014, and first full-length release with the Brooklyn-based independent label Mexican Summer. Pink has recently shared videos for Dedicated to Bobby Jameson singles ‘Another Weekend’ and ‘Feels Like Heaven’ (above). The new release’s title makes a direct and heartfelt reference to a real-life Los Angeles musician, long presumed dead, who... Read More
LIVERPOOL’S EDGE HILL TRAIN STATION PREMIERES ‘DIFFERENT TRAINS 1947’ TONIGHT WITH BFI SOCIAL ARCHIVE FOOTAGE PLUS MUSIC FROM A NUMBER OF ARTISTS
Tonight Different Trains 1947 will premiere at the oldest passenger railway station in the world – Edge Hill Train Station in Liverpool. Marking the 70th anniversary of Indian Independence this year, the night will feature British Film Industry (BFI) social archive footage from both India and the UK, alongside music from a range of artists including Sandunes, Jivraj Singh, Priya Purushothaman, Actress, and Jack Barnett of These New Puritans. Support will be provided by Warp... Read More
‘SCREAM’ IF YOU WANT TO HEAR WEAVES NEW TRACK. GO ON SCREAM.
Weaves have shares the official version of their track ‘Scream’ along with its video. The song is the third single from the upcoming LP Wide Open (due out Friday 6th October 2017 on Memphis Industries), following ‘#53’ and ‘Walkaway’, and constitutes a dramatic departure from those initial offerings. Despite being long-time friends this is the first collaboration between Tagaq and Weaves’ lead singer Jasmyn Burke, and their warped duet,... Read More
CASSETTE STORE DAY UNVEILS FINAL LIST OF RELEASES AHEAD OF OCTOBER’S EVENT
Cassette Store Day is back this autumn on October 14th with a day of global celebrations and all in honour of the humble cassette tape. The final list of UK releases is as follows: • Fear of Tigers – Tapeworkxs (Playmaker Media) • Various Artists – The Music Will Save Us Vol.1 (Sad Club Records) • Colleen – Colleen Et Les Boîtes À Musique (Beacon Sound) • Colleen – The Golden Morning Breaks (Beacon Sound) • Colleen – Les Ondes Silencieuses (Beacon... Read More
