AATHENS ANNOUNCE DEBUT EP
Few welcome the death of another London music venue. When Powerlunches closed at the end of last year, Kingsland Road lost one of its last vestiges of DIY subculture – and a thriving, inclusive scene along with it. It was in the few months before it shut its doors for good that Patrick Browne (vox/guitar), Hannah Gledhill (guitar), Jason Jaworski (drums) and Ed Shellard (bass) came together and began rehearsing in the basement of that now defunct venue, working on a clutch... Read More
LEOPOLD AND HIS FICTION ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM AND UK DATES
Newly Austin-based band Leopold and His Fiction will release their new album ‘Darling Destroyer’ next year via ILA/Native Fiction. The band release the first single off the album, ‘Cowboy’ today. The single is accompanied by a video which mirrors the self-mythologizing swagger of the track and relives the excitement of classic crime dramas. The vivid, filmic “Cowboy” jumps seamlessly between nostalgia and modernism. Frontman Daniel Leopold says... Read More
CASSETTE STORE DAY ANNOUNCES FIRST WAVE OF RELEASES
Cassette Store Day 2016 Cassette Store Day is back this autumn on October 8th with a day of global celebrations and all in honour of the humble cassette tape. The first list of UK releases is as follows: Pixies – Head Carrier (Pixies Music) Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Kissability) Gonjasufi – Callus (Warp) Fake Laugh – Ice EP + Great Ideas EP (self-released) Get Cape. Wear Cape. Fly – The Chronicles of a... Read More
THIS IS THE KIT SHARE ‘COLD AND GOT COLDER’ VIDEO
This Is The Kit have just shared their video for “Cold and Got Colder,” a stand out track from Bashed Out, conceived and directed by This Is the Kit’s main mover and shaker Kate Stables. Kate says of the video in which she carries a canoe over land, Fitzcarraldo-style: “Often in life we’re struck by the struggle. Our own struggles and also witnessing the struggles of others. Making this video was kind of a performance/personal process/nod to anyone who... Read More
LIVE: LISTENER – 30/08/2016
Listener – GULLIVERS, MANCHESTER – The band lay bare their emotions and feelings right from the very start tonight. Entering the stage they begin with their pre-show pep talk with the crowd as witness, hugging in a circle, laughing, warming up and getting in the mood. I have never seen this before, usually done out of sight, it is a nice experience, breaking the usual barrier between the band personally; their show and the audience. It helps to create an air... Read More
ODONIS ODONIS SHARE NEW VIDEO ‘NEEDS’! ALBUM ‘POST PLAGUE’
Odonis Odonis‘ Post Plague, delivers a powerful blend of industrial, electronic and science fiction. OO’s post-apocalyptic anthems construct stark soundscapes and saturate them with layer upon layer of industrial grime and was released on felte earlier this summer to high acclaim from a variety of sites and publications including Pitchfork, NPR, THUMP, The Quietus & Drowned in Sound.Today the trio release the first episode of multimedia short films based... Read More
LOUDER THAN WORDS SHOUT ABOUT THIS YEAR’S FESTIVAL
Louder than Words Where: The Palace Hotel, Oxford Road, Manchester, M60 7HA When: November 11-13 2016 What: www.louderthanwordsfest.com The Louder Than Words Festival of music and writing grows louder each year. Now in its fourth edition, this remains the only festival that interrogates that enduring love affair between music and the written word. Since its first incarnation in 2013, audience and contributor numbers have more than doubled, which in turn has only increased... Read More
LIVE: SAM BEAM AND JESCA HOOP – 31/08/2016
Sam Beam & Jesca Hoop – RNCM, MANCHESTER – It’s like stepping through an upper-middle-class portal tonight, as the Royal Northern College of Music’s or RNCM for short, has its patrons ushered and halted and directed through doors and hallways. Holding wine in their hands, the RNCMs patrons, no more than utter a whisper throughout the performance, as Sam Beam sarcastically quips “wow, I can hardly hear myself think in here”. It’s probably... Read More
LIVE: M. WARD – 01/09/2016
M. Ward – GORILLA, MANCHESTER – It dawned on me in about 2004 that several of my favourite bands and musicians were signed to the same label, Merge Records, so I decided to splash out on the then-recent 3-CD compilation Old Enough To Know Better: 15 Years of Merge Records. As a kid I’d been given a Now! compilation, but I’m fairly sure that Old Enough was the first comp I’d bought with my own money. As it turned out, one of my favourite tracks on that entire, spectacular... Read More
LIVE: BIG THIEF – 01/09/2016
Big Thief – GORILLA, MANCHESTER – Whispers about Brooklyn’s Big Thief seem to have echoed across America; Npr music’s Bob Boilen, the man who saw 666 gigs last year, hailed them as a band ‘bound by big songs’ calling their album’ title track ‘Masterpiece’ “one of the best songs of the year”, while Pitchfork said songs on the album were “cherrypicked from a lifetime of writing”. However, while their debut... Read More
