SHONEN KNIFE ANNOUNCE 35TH ANNIVERSARY TOUR

Shonen Knife, the All-Female Pop-Punk-Rock Pioneers from Osaka, Japan celebrate their 35th Anniversary and (as yet untitled) new album with their most extensive UK & Eire tour to date, presented by Damnably – including a slot at the Stewart Lee curated ATP Festival.  Original drummer Atsuko returns to the band to play bass on the […]
Tucson’s mystical psychedelic-cumbia-rock band led by Giant Sand members Brian Lopez and Gabriel Sullivan debuts Friday November 13th with the EP Shift and Shadow on Glitterhouse Records. Their LP Bloodline is due early February 2016. XIXA are psychedelic. XIXA are cumbia. But, most of all, XIXA are rock ‘n roll. Their music is rooted in […]

XIXA RELEASE DEBUT EP

EXMAGICIAN UNVEIL NEW VIDEO FOR ‘PLACE YOUR BETS’

EXMAGICIAN is the collaboration between longtime friends Danny Todd and James Smith. The Belfast duo, who released their debut EP Kiss That Wealth Goodbye on Friday 20th November via Bella Union, have now released a live performance video of one of the EP’s many highlights ‘Place Your Bets’, a track which has been gaining lots of support […]
After recently releasing their debut album, psych-pop outfit  Gold Celeste are excited to share their brand new single ‘The Wonder of Love’. This comes ahead of their upcoming London shows on Dec 7th & Dec 9th. Showcasing the band’s shimmery psych sounds, ‘The Wonder of Love‘ is the trio’s most emotional single to date and comes just a […]

GOLD CELESTE SHARE NEW TRACK ‘THE WONDER OF LOVE’

SONGS FOR WALTER ANNOUNCES DEBUT ALBUM

 The debut album launch will take place at The Soup Kitchen on January 22nd They say youth is wasted on the young. It’s something Walter, the late grandfather of guitar-wielding and song- writing troubadour of Manchester based Laurie Hulme, would probably have agreed with. As nom-de-plume Songs For Walter, Laurie’s eponymous debut album is a […]
Teleman unveil the first cut from their forthcoming second album (due Spring 2016). Produced by Dan Carey (Bat for Lashes, Kate Tempest, Nick Mulvey), ‘Fall In Time’ twists from its ominous beginnings into a soaring chorus “I want you / Can’t afford not to fight / I could be the darkness you’re trying to find […]

TELEMAN RETURN WITH ‘FALL IN TIME’ AND ANNOUNCE TOUR

WAXAHATCHEE SHARES NEW VIDEO FOR ‘LA LOOSE’

Waxahatchee has unveiled an official video for her recent single, ‘La Loose’. Directed by Naomi Yang (Galaxie 500, Damon & Naomi), the video finds Katie Crutchfield taking centre stage. Speaking of the shoot, Naomi Yang shared “I wanted the video to be a visual equivalent to the song lyric, “a charming picture of hysteria in love” – a […]
Comprised of James Howard and Ursula Russell, formerly of Fiction and Drop Out Venus, Blue House’s forthcoming album was written with little regard for what was going on in the world, musically speaking. “My listening habits became quite strange over the summer, I was just listening to a handful of songs over and over again, […]

LONDON DUO BLUE HOUSE UNVEIL NEW B-SIDE ‘CONFESSIONAL’

VELCRO SHARE NEW SINGLE ‘SEVERIN THE MIND’

Bristol’s Velcro Hooks are offering the first taste of their debut album, due 2016, with ‘Severin The Mind’. Released January 15th via Howling Owl Records, ‘Severin The Mind’ is a squalling, off-kilter slab of fuzzed out garage-rock. Velcro Hooks’ story began in the city of Quetzaltenango, Guatemala, where Canadian Jenner Blank met Englishman Thom Mason […]
Field Music have today premiered the video for ‘The Noisy Days Are Over’ ‘The Noisy Days Are Over’ is the lead single from their new record Commontime, set to be released 5th February 2016 via Memphis Industries. Written and recorded in spontaneous bursts over six months in their Wearside studio, Commontime is built around the […]

FIELD MUSIC SHARE VIDEO FOR ‘THE NOISY DAYS ARE OVER’