NEWS: FRANK’S FINAL FUNDRAISER

Two successful fundraisers in 2012, one in Manchester and one in London, have lead towards an affordable solution to erecting the Frank Sidebottom Statue in Timperley and the target sum is now within grasp. With a final push to raise the last couple of thousand pounds, friends, family and fans alike are joining forces to […]
The latest single to be taken from the acclaimed Fragrant World, is the gothic and very addictive ‘Reagan’s Skeleton’. “A sure-fire dancefloor killer“ (Time Out), ‘Reagan’s Skeleton’ has already been championed by Zane Lowe and Nick Grimshawon Radio 1 and John Kennedy on Xfm. The new video, featuring a live performance of ‘Reagan’s Skeleton’, is directed by acclaimed artist and film makers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard (http://www.iainandjane.com/) who have […]

NEWS: YEASAYER – NEW SINGLE & LIVE DATES

LISTEN: GIRL BAND – ‘FRANCE 98’ EP

Girl Band are a four piece noise-rock band from Dublin, Ireland. There are no girls in the band. They formed in late 2011 and “France 98” is their second release with Any Other City Records. Musically somewhere between Bleach-era Nirvana, mclusky, Jesus Lizard and even that incendiary first Idlewild demo in their teens, long before […]
“Well, if I were to use that threadbare metaphor of albums being like children, then Push The Sky Away is the ghost-baby in the incubator and Warren’s loops are its tiny, trembling heart-beat.” Nick Cave At the heart of Push the Sky Away is a naturalism and warmth that makes it the most subtly beautiful of […]

NEWS: NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – NEW ALBUM TRAILER ‘PUSH THE SKY AWAY’

NEWS: PURITY RING – ‘LOFTICRIES’ VIDEO / TOUR DATES

Acclaimed video director AG Rojas (Jack White’s ‘Sixteen Saltines’, Spiritualized’s ‘Hey Jane’) has added his macabre touch to the Purity Ring song ‘Lofticries’, placing it as a soundtrack to a fever dream of vast ideas – conception, birth, sickness, and death. The band start their first headline tour of Europe this week and will then […]
Suuns will release their second full-length album, ‘Images Du Futur’, via Secretly Canadian in the UK on 4th March 2013. The Montreal four-piece are also set to play a handful of UK and European dates including London’s Village Underground on the 5th Dec, followed by ATP later that month. The first single, ‘Edie’s Dream’, starts with […]

NEWS : SUUNS – HEAR ‘EDIE’S DREAM’ FROM THE 2ND ALBUM

NEWS: JIM JAMES – LISTEN TO ‘KNOW TIL NOW’ / ALBUM DETAILS

“I wanted the album to sound like it came from a different place in time,” says Jim James. “Perhaps sounding as if it were the past of the future, if that makes any sense—like a hazy dream that a fully-realized android or humanoid capable of thought might have when it reminisces about the good old […]
Following their recent sold-out UK tour and with a triumphant 2012 under their belts, BEACH HOUSE premier a new video for ‘Wild’, one of the many highlights from their fourth album Bloom. The intense and compelling clip was directed by filmmaker Johan Renck (Breaking Bad, The Walking Dead, Madonna, The Knife).

VIDEO: BEACH HOUSE – ‘WILD’

VIDEO: THE LOVELY EGGS ‘I JUST WANT SOMEONE TO FALL IN LOVE WITH’

A message from The Lovely Eggs…. “Our new single ‘I Just Want Someone To Fall in Love With’ comes out on Monday. Here is the brand new video to it done by mind warbler Casey Raymond… We are trying to get with it so it is our first ever digital only release.You can pre-order it here… […]
With Manchester featuring in the next round of cities soon to be awarded their new local television broadcast licence by regulator OFCOM, one of the bidders – Made in Manchester TV have today released the details of their plans to place a plethora of new music programming within the schedules of their TV station that […]

NEWS: MANCHESTER BANDS SHOW SUPPORT FOR PROPOSED NEW MANCHESTER TV CHANNEL