PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING TO RELEASE NEW SINGLE ‘THE OTHER SIDE’

To coincide with a line of festival dates, followed by a full UK tour, Public Service Broadcasting are releasing live favourite ‘The Other Side’ on 28th August. J. Willgoose, Esq., the mastermind behind PSB, describes the track as the “most emotional moment” from their newly release album The Race For Space. Full listings are below, […]
The Sacred Bones-signed Chilean hypnagogic pop duo The Holydrug Couple and Manchester heroes Horsebeach will play The Soup Kitchen July 8th Doors 7.30pm. Tickets are £8.50 – purchase them here The Holydrug Couple released their sophomore album Moonlust earlier this year and Horsebeach released their self-titled debut LP in 2014, which featured in Piccadilly Records’ records of the […]

THE HOLYDRUG COUPLE RETURN TO MANCHESTER WITH SUPPORT FROM HORSEBEACH

SAUNA YOUTH RELEASE NEW VIDEO FOR ‘TRANSMITTERS’

Directed, shot and edited by Gary Mcquiggin of Welywyn Garden City, known for his work previously with The Pheromoans,The Bomber Jackets and Deerhoof, the film recalls James Broughton’s surrealist miniature The Pleasure Garden (1957). Using a number of the same locations, the band appear, disappear and re-appear amongst and against the modern day remains of […]
US punk rock trio Ex Hex will play Manchester on their November UK tour. The band, comprised of  Mary Timony, Laura Harris and Betsy Wright, released their debut album Rips last year on Merge Records. They have toured the US and Europe non-stop since then, and will return to these shores in November after a […]

EX HEX ANNOUNCE NEW UK TOUR FOR NOVEMBER

SLEAFORD MODS RELEASE VIDEO FOR ‘TARANTULA DEADLY CARGO’

Singer Jason Williamson had this to say about the new video – “Tarantula Deadly Cargo is a bit of a departure from the main formula and it reeks of a tour weary band in-between gigs, snatching their free time in a wink but quickly having to give it up to record new stuff. It’s inspired […]
The album ‘Grey Tickles, Black Pressure‘ was recorded in Dallas with producer John Congleton (St Vincent, Franz Ferdinand, Swans) Grant had this to say about his new release: “I do think the album’s great, and I’m really proud of it,” he says. “I wanted to get moodier and angrier on this record, but I probably had […]

JOHN GRANT ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM AND EUROPEAN TOUR DATES

GWENNO ANNOUNCES NEW SOLO ALBUM AND TOUR

GWENNO will embark on a co-headline tour with label-mate H. Hawkline to promote her debut solo album, Y Dydd Olaf. GWENNO, the new project of former Pipettes frontwoman Gwenno Saunders, will release the album, which means The Last Day in English, on July 24 via Heavenly Recordings. You can listen to one of the tracks […]
Kurt Vile has announced details of a new album and new tour, including a Manchester date. b’lieve i’m goin down… has not been given an exact release date but is expected to be out on Matador Records sometime in the autumn. The album will be his sixth full length effort, and will follow 2013’s Walkin […]

KURT VILE AND THE VIOLATORS ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM AND TOUR

MANCHESTER SCREENING OF SALAD DAYS: A DECADE OF PUNK IN WASHINGTON, DC

Twisted Reel, the Northern Quarter’s regular film night, is to screen Salad Days: A Decade of Punk in Washington, DC (1980-90), the documentary film that examines the early DIY punk scene in the US Capital. It was a decade when seminal bands like Bad Brains, Minor Threat, Government Issue, Scream, Void, Faith, Rites of Spring, […]
US four-piece Sextile have previewed the first song from their debut album. The LA band, who take their name from an astrological term relating to harmony and the ease of expression of two conflicting elements, have shared Can’t Take It. The track is taken from A Thousand Hands, which will be released on August 21 via […]

SEXTILE SHARE FIRST TRACK FROM DEBUT ALBUM