NEWS: BARBAROSSA COVERS JUNIP’S ‘LINE OF FIRE’ + LP

  Barbarossa is James Mathé, freshly-signed to Memphis Industries and about to go on tour across America with Junip. To celebrate and to leave us in no uncertain terms how much he likes Junip, he’s just gone and covered ‘Line Of Fire’. Barbarossa’s own album is Bloodlines (Released 5th August), an album that draws on […]
For those who prefer their music to ooze from the cracks of murkier depths, say ‘goodbye’ bedroom dreamers and ‘hello’ to self-confessed ‘Maximalist’ Manchester duo Ghost Outfit. Their debut album will leave no eardrum unblown, and no window unshattered. Whilst other bands strive for ‘stripped back’, layers of wild guitar and industrial drum rhythms define […]

NEWS: GHOST OUTFIT STREAM ‘KILLUHS’ + DEBUT LP

NEWS: SANKOFA – ‘SIREN SONG’ VIDEO

It was a slow burn to begin with. The Liverpool foursome have spent two years nurturing their sound and stride and in becoming a unit they found support from Eighties Vinyl Records. The support has proved fruitful and the boys now launch their first single, Siren Song Part I and II. Siren Song is a […]
Icelandic teenage wunderkind Samaris’ first UK release comes in the shape of an eponymously-titled album on 29th July. Samaris compiles their two Icelandic-released EPs, Hljóma Þú (2011) and Stofnar falla and includes 4 remixes. Combining disparate elements of electronics (Þórður Kári Steinþórsson), clarinet (Áslaug Rún Magnúsdóttir) and Jófríður Ákadóttir’s haunting voice, Samaris mix glacial electronica […]

NEWS: SAMARIS – DEBUT SINGLE ‘Góða Tungl’ + LP

NEWS: GOLDEN SUITS – ‘DIDN’T I WARN YOU’ + S/T LP

Golden Suits is a new project from Department of Eagles Fred Nicolaus. This is Nicolaus’ first album recorded on his own – although he wrote or co-wrote many of Department Of Eagles’ best-known songs (including ‘No One Does It Like You’) – and is a mix of meticulously crafted, ever-so-slightly left of center pop songs. […]
Dutch Uncles have been announced as support for Everything Everything’s UK tour in October. The two Manchester bands have been long time friends and supporters and both released albums to widespread acclaim on the same day back in January. To celebrate this coming together Dutch Uncles have remixed Everything Everything’s previous single ‘Duet’. EVERYTHING EVERYTHING […]

NEWS: DUTCH UNCLES TOUR WITH EVERYTHING EVERYTHING + FREE DOWNLOAD

NEWS: SUNNS – GLASTONBURY + STREAM 2020 (ANIKA REMIX)

Following on from a round of thunderous joyous UK shows last week, Suuns have announced their full run of European summer festivals. Rounding off their current three-month long line of dates at Sasquatch this week, the Montrealean noiseniks  return to Europe and the UK from June onwards, appearing at the likes of Glastonbury, Roskilde and […]
Xpress: The Album, ft. The Strokes, The Libertines & Reverend and the Makers has been released to raise awareness of suicide prevention charity, CALM. Xpress, the brain-child of Ben Tallon and Danni Skerritt of Manchester based Quenched Music, is a creative cross platform project to raise awareness of male suicide prevention charity CALM (Campaign Against […]

NEWS: XPRESS – ‘THE ALBUM’ + THE STROKES, THE LIBERTINES – ALL FOR CALM

NEWS: ESBEN AND THE WITCH – REMIX EP + VIDEO ‘WHEN THAT HEAD SPLITS – MAPS REMIX’

Ever-evolving British trio Esben and the Witch have to announced a new six-track remix EP, complementing their album of January 2013, ‘Wash the Sins Not Only the Face’. A brave and bold statement of intent, embracing new stylistic directions and a developed immediacy while maintaining the band’s signature atmospheres, Wash the Sins… was a critical […]
‘Fantasy’, the new record from Lightning Dust (Amber Webber and Josh Wells of Black Mountain), will be out on Jagjaguwar on June 24th. ‘Fantasy’ is Lightning Dust’s third proper full-length album, and it finds its inspiration in skeletal synth pop, modern R&B beats, the films of John Carpenter and – in accordance with Lightning Dust’s […]

NEWS: LIGHTNING DUST – VIDEO FOR ‘DIAMOND’ + NEW LP ‘FANTASY’