NEWS: THE MINX – LIVE DATES

Mixing an energetic blend of punk, ska and northern soul with a healthy dose of pop sensibility and hometown swagger The Minx have been tearing up venues around the UK collecting an ever growing fanbase. With support from Mike Joyce (The Smiths), Jennie Matthias (The Belle Stars), Tom Hingley (Inspiral Carpets) and a number of […]
Dutch Uncles have announced the release, via Memphis Industries, of their new album ‘Out of Touch in the Wild’ on 14th January 2013 and new single ‘Fester’ on 12th November. Isn’t it great to see a young band growing the old fashioned way? Three albums into their career, Manchester’s Dutch Uncles, a group who pitched […]

NEWS: DUTCH UNCLES – NEW ALBUM DETAILS + FREE DOWNLOAD

NEWS: THE LOVELY EGGS – NEW ALBUM ‘WILDLIFE’ + LIVE DATES

The Lovely Eggs return with their third album ‘WILDLIFE’ after a year and a half touring their critically acclaimed second album ‘COB DOMINOS’. This time the Eggs return with an album that encapsulates the isolation of extensive touring and brief time back in their home town Lancaster. The two piece raucous noise pop duo combine […]
Manchester based trumpeter, composer, arranger and band-leader Matthew Halsall is one of the rising stars of the UK jazz scene. His unique sound was brilliantly described as “Rain-streaked spiritual jazz from Manchester” by the Independent On Sunday and previous albums have found Halsall exploring the modal jazz of John and Alice Coltrane or paying heartfelt […]

NEWS: MATTHEW HALSALL – NEW ALBUM ‘FLETCHER MOSS PARK’ DETAILS

VIDEO: CAT POWER – ‘CHEROKEE’

Here is the new Cat Power new video for ‘Cherokee’, starring and directed by Chan Marshall (Cat Power), it’s the first music video to be taken from her new album, ‘Sun’. Shot in the Californian desert, it depicts a post-apocalyptic world in the near future where road gangs rule a lawless land. The video follows […]
Indians, the musical alter ego of Copenhagen resident Søren Løkke Juul, have just signed to 4AD. While they only played their first concert in their hometown in February of this year and self-released their debut single in April, they’ve already garnered enough attention to perform shows across Europe and in North America, playing shows with […]

NEWS: INDIANS – WATCH THE 4AD SESSION

NEWS: MIDNIGHT MAGIC – DOWNLOAD ‘SAME WAY I FEEL’ FROM THE FORTHCOMING DEBUT ALBUM

Midnight Magic’s blend of funk, soul, and electro-tinged disco has been setting airwaves and dance floors ablaze in NYC where they lay their roots and beyond. Since bursting onto the scene in 2009 with a series of 12” singles, including “I Found Love,” a recent collaboration with Tommie Sunshine, and dance floor smash “Beam Me […]
South Londoner Daniel Woolhouse sees his music as, “sitting somewhere between real and synthetic”, but the emotional impact of his alter ego Deptford Goth is about as human as it gets. Imbued with an intimate, intense, yearning melancholy, perfectly matched to a seamlessly woven ‘scape of synths, beats and atmospheric vocals, new track ‘Life After […]

NEWS: DEPTFORD GOTH – LISTEN TO ‘LIFE AFTER DEFO’ FROM THE FORTHCOMING DEBUT ALBUM

NEWS: THE SOFT PACK – LISTEN TO A TRACK FROM THE FORTHCOMING ALBUM ‘STRAPPED’

The Soft Pack return with ‘Strapped’, which is due for release 1st October on Mexican Summer. It’s an adventurous album that finds the Los Angeles-based foursome breaking with expectations and exploring the possibilities of how they can push their sound. In making it, the group took to heart a quote from the sage Pasadena thinker […]
The Future Islands video (directed by Jay Bulm) shot in black & white and using an innovative 360 panning style, documents the band’s typical day on the road. ‘Grease’ is the last track taken from their acclaimed album ‘On the Water’ which was released last year.

VIDEO: FUTURE ISLANDS – ‘GREASE’