SLUG ANNOUNCES FULL UK TOUR AND COVERS KATE BUSH’S ‘BIG SKY’

Having released his debut album Ripe earlier this year SLUG – AKA Sunderland’s Ian Black, has plotted a brand new set of dates across the coming months. Coming up are appearances at UK festivals and a Manchester date supporting FFS and then on to a headline tour in October SLUG LIVE DATES 08 Aug – […]
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, […]

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

THE HOLYDRUG COUPLE RETURN TO MANCHESTER WITH SUPPORT FROM HORSEBEACH

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 […]
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 […]

SAUNA YOUTH RELEASE NEW VIDEO FOR ‘TRANSMITTERS’

EX HEX ANNOUNCE NEW UK TOUR FOR NOVEMBER

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 […]
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 […]

SLEAFORD MODS RELEASE VIDEO FOR ‘TARANTULA DEADLY CARGO’

JOHN GRANT ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM AND EUROPEAN TOUR DATES

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 […]
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 […]

GWENNO ANNOUNCES NEW SOLO ALBUM AND TOUR

KURT VILE AND THE VIOLATORS ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM AND TOUR

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 […]
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, […]

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