NEWS: PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING – NEW SINGLE ‘NIGHT MAIL’ + DVD RELEASE OF DEBUT ALBUM & TOUR DATES
After a triumphant festival season which has seen Public Service Broadcasting playing to packed stages and tents across the UK, the duo return this Autumn with Night Mail, the stand-out track from their critically-acclaimed debut album ‘Inform – Educate – Entertain’. As well as new single ‘Night Mail’, the nation’s favourite corduroy obsessives have finally confirmed that the much-requested and oft-rumoured DVD edition of the album will be released on the same... Read More
Album Review: Au Revoir Simone – Move In Spectrums
Generally in the music press, writers love the idea of ‘genre’. The desire to pigeonhole and categorise artists is an instinctive one: it give us the ability to compare and contrast similar artists, which in turn allow us to grade them based on their individual merit. However as we plough ever further into the 21st century it becomes rapidly more difficult to do this successfully. Genre is becoming more subjective; one person’s ‘chillwave’ is another’s ‘shoegaze’,... Read More
NEWS: WOODEN SHJIPS – NEW ALBUM ‘BACK TO LAND’ + TOUR
‘Back To Land’ is the new album from Wooden Shjips, released November 11th through Thrill Jockey Records. Wooden Shjips’ rise to prominence from the psychedelic underground to the rock and roll overground has been a steady sojourn. With each consecutive release, the band has found new ways of transforming heady psychedelic rock into minimalist masterpieces, bridging the gap between the woozy freeness of Les Rallizes Denudes and Crazy Horse and the tightly wound simplicity... Read More
NEWS: BENEATH THE BEACH – DOWNLOAD NEW SINGLE ‘THE WAY YOU COULD HAVE LOOKED TONIGHT’
Beneath the Beach have released their new single ‘The Way You Could Have Looked Tonight’ which will be available to download from today via their Bandcamp page (link below). ‘The Way You Could Have Looked Tonight’ combines weaving guitars, complex driving rhythms and vocal samples from Cecil Taylor, John Coltrane and the offspring of Ivor Stravinsky. Its is a track to make you both think and dance to simultaneously.Beneath The Beach Official | Facebook | Twitter | Soundcloud |... Read More
LIVE: ELIZA AND THE BEAR – 20/09/2013
– PHONES 4U ARENA, MANCHESTER – It’s a pretty big deal when a young British band, who have spent years playing every toilet venue in the UK and beyond finally get a break and get to play some bigger rooms. So it must feel pretty good to be in Eliza And The Bear right now. After a successful headline tour around the UK, the London based outfit were picked personally by pop-punk princess Hayley Williams to support her band Paramore on their current arena tour... Read More
LIVE: JAMES BLAKE – 20/09/13
– THE RITZ, MANCHESTER – James Blake. Not to be confused with the James family of bland, Blunt or Morrison. Blake is a producer and musician of incredible skill and flair. He crafts his songs from a rich array of sounds and electronic production techniques; with nods to bass, dub step, hip hop, R&B and soul. His sounds lurch from one genre to the next. When Bon Iver and Burial are uttered together in his list of influences, you can see why it’s hard to know what... Read More
LIVE REVIEW: FESTIVAL NO. 6 – 14/09/2013
Lost In The Woods Stage – SATURDAY – I’m sure just like ourselves everyone here has checked the weather for the weekend and noted that today is going to be the best of the three days in Portmeirion, so we decide this is the day to make the most of the village and its surroundings. First port of call is breakfast (although it’s actually lunchtime), so when in Rome, eat Italian, but we’re in Wales so we opt for Welsh Rarebit in The Castle where the... Read More
LIVE REVIEW: FESTIVAL NO. 6 – 13/09/2013
Photo by Danny Norths – FRIDAY – Last year’s festival wristbands cleverly had ‘I am not a number’ written on them, a nod to The Prisoner, the sixties cult sci-fi show filmed at Portmeirion. This gave you a bubbling anticipation of what lay beyond. But this year’s wristbands are different, gone is the ‘I am not a number’, and guess what it has instead, yes….. a number! Is this a sign of changes from last year’s fantastic... Read More
LIVE REVIEW: FESTIVAL NO. 6 – 15/09/2013
Songs For Walter – SUNDAY 15/09/2013 – It’s half five in the morning and the wind has now been giving our tent a bit of kicking for the last hour or so, so I decide it’s time to go outside and make sure all the tent’s guy ropes are still intact. As it turns out most of them have been pulled from the ground already and according the weather reports it’s only going to get worse. As we get toward midday I’ve spent most of my time outside... Read More
NEWS: LOUDER THAN WORDS – FESTIVAL OF MUSIC AND WRITING
As long as people have made music, others have sought to write about it, to capture its magic in words. Words and beats, language and melody, enjoying a sensual, symbiotic relationship. Sometimes melodic, at others dissonant this is the very relationship that will be explored at the inaugural Louder Than Words Festival in Manchester, this November 15-17. This is the first Festival of its kind, a very special weekend that will be of interest to anyone who loves the melodies... Read More
