Baxter Dury has debuted the extraordinary video for his new single ‘Pleasure’, which features him crossing the Millennium Bridge, having just escaped from hospital in circumstances unexplained. Filmed in rush hour in approximately 4 takes using a focus puller, a steady cam and a make up assistant who had a small bucket of fake excrement, […]
Twisted Reel, the Northern Quarter’s regular film night, is screening ‘Dig!’ Compiled from seven years of footage, Ondi Timoner’s ‘Dig!’ contrasts the developing careers and love-hate relationship of the bands ‘The Dandy Warhols’ and ‘The Brian Jonestown Massacre’ and the bands’ respective front men Courtney Taylor-Taylor and Anton Newcombe. Dig! Is a study in delusion, […]
“Its 10 years later and we’re still writing our own bios, still playing too loud and still punctuating it all with absurdity. In the fall of 2014, we will release our first record together in a decade. Our epic proposal, entitled “The Physical World” was written and recorded between 2012 and 2014 in some real […]
Archie Bronson Outfit have announced details of the release of a new single. In White Relief is released on Domino on Monday 25th August 2014. The single, taken from their recent fourth album, Wild Crush, which was released in May of this year, was recorded in their home-town of Bath during the album sessions. Commenting on […]
Earlier this month saw the release of Teleman’s critically acclaimed debut album ‘Breakfast’. With a live session on Radio 4 Loose Ends last week and one on 6Music’s Lauren Laverne next month, the quartet will continue to soundtrack the summer as they announce their new single ‘Skeleton Dance’ – due August 18th on Moshi Moshi […]
New Topographics will be available from August 4th on CD, LP (including download card) and as part of a bundle that includes the 180g heavyweight, clear/purple haze coloured vinyl (limited to 100 pressings and exclusive to the pre-order bundle) CD, digital download, exclusive t-shirt AND a set Talons postcards featuring shots from the liner notes. […]
Want a new drug? From the band that once brought you “Killer Weed,”now shoote a primse snoutful of powder! “Powder8 Eeeeeeeeight,” to be precise; an over-the-edge jamthem from the new Black Bananas long player, the epic Electric Brick Wall! It’s quite possible this black slabbath of an album is already on display at your local […]
Mazes have never been ones for hanging around. When they have songs, they get them out there. If they should find themselves snowed in and unable to get to the studio, they’d grab a shovel and dig a pathway through. It’s precisely what the trio had to do during a recent trip to upstate New […]
Gruff Rhys announces the release of ‘Liberty (Is Where We’ll Be)’, the second single from his hugely acclaimed fourth solo album, with a new video and the confirmation of an autumn tour across the UK and Europe. The single is due on July 21st on Turnstile and is taken from ‘American Interior’, Gruff’s highest charting […]
Riding on the wave of a No.1 album, the diversely talented Bombay Bicycle Club have announced ‘Come To’ as their next single. This will be released on August 18th through Island Records, and will undoubtedly be the soundtrack to the summer festival season. The album ‘So Long, See You Tomorrow’ – their fourth in five […]
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ALBUM REVIEW - BLONDE REDHEAD: THE SHADOW OF THE GUEST
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ALBUM REVIEW - ANNAHSTASIA: TETHER
ALBUM REVIEW – TIAN QIYI: SONGS FOR WORKERS
