After a three-year break, the extraordinary Karima Francis returns on June 4th with a stunning new single ‘Wherever I Go’, new LP ‘The Remedy’ – out August 6th on Mercury. The follow-up to her critically acclaimed debut ‘The Author’, this second album is a personal landmark for the Blackpool born singer-songwriter; upfront, personal, narrative-rich, and […]
Set for release on July 23rd 2012, ‘Shrines’ is the debut album by Purity Ring, a Halifax/Montreal-based duo comprised of Corin Roddick and Megan James. Purity Ring make lullabies for the club, drawing equally from airy 90s R&B, lush dream pop, and the powerful bone-rattling immediacy of modern hip hop. Megan’s voice is at once […]
ATP Recordings have announced the full release of the debut album from Anywhere – a new collaborative projected started by Christian Eric Beaulieu (Triclops!, Liquid Indian) and Cedric Bixler Zavala (The Mars Volta, At The Drive-In) alongside very special guests Mike Watt (The Stooges, fIREHOSE, Minutemen) and providing guest vocals alongside Cedric, Rachel Fannan (ex-Sleepy […]
Hailing from London, but drawing equally from the power pop sounds of West Coast America to the rainy streets of Glasgow, Fanzine are here to inspire, to incite and to invigorate in the most laid back, understated yet radiant way they can. There’s a knack to making this positively inviting brand of modern, heart filled, […]
New Zealand songwriter / producer Lawrence Arabia returns with The Sparrow, the follow up to the critically-acclaimed and award-winning Chant Darling. Venturing away from the harmony-laden, classic pop production of that release, The Sparrow is a more measured and minimalist work, drawing particularly on the influence of the symphonic late-sixties work of Scott Walker and Serge Gainsbourg. While various ominous words like […]
The Seattle music scene, famous for its contribution to breeding amazing musicians in the USA has once again delivered another rocking band that are coming for your ears this summer. Local garage duo My Goodness are about to unleash their energy-packed blues-rock to the UK and release their debut single ‘C’Mon Doll’ digitally on Monday 28th May following their debut […]
The single is out on May 14th on Cherryade Records. THE LOVELY EGGS UK FOOD TOUR DATES THURS MAY 3RD The central Bar, NEWCASTLE FRI MAY 4TH Fishtank, DURHAM SAT MAY 5TH The Grand, CLITHEROE SUN MAY 6TH Sounds From The Other City Festival @ Salford Arms, SALFORD MON MAY 7TH The Continental PRESTON TUES […]
With the release of their recent hugely acclaimed album Plumb, and having completed a sold out tour of the UK, Field music, a.k.a. Sunderland siblings Peter and David Brewis (along with Kev Dosdale on guitars and synth and Andrew Lowther on bass) have just announced a 12 date tour of the UK this coming October […]
Duke Special is an artist aptly named. Dynamic, musically ambitious and bracingly eccentric, with his inimitable style and lush musicality. Hailing from Belfast with a sound that is self-confessed “hobo-chic”, Duke Special – AKA the endlessly inventive Peter Wilson – is once heard, never forgotten. Blissfully at home in his own alluring genre of beautifully bruised romanticism, Duke […]
Bringing together two of Manchester’s most promising and invigorating breakout bands of recent times, the latest offering from our Manchester based micro-label, Icecapades, crams 12 minutes of classic, hook-laden pop precision onto both sides of this 45rpm 7”. Side A is taken up by Sex Hands, three childhood best friends from North Wales, and one […]
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