Following the release of their debut LP ‘Egyptian Wrinkle’ on Hell, Yes! last month, Texan girl duo Boy Friend bring their heartbreaking ethereal haze of luscious melodies to the UK for the first time, including an appearances at Camden Crawl, Simple Things & Great Escape festivals as well as a Perfume Genius support slot. The […]
Liars have announced the first details of a new album, out on Mute on 4 June 2012, this is their sixth studio album and the follow up to 2010’s critically lauded ‘Sisterworld’. Liars (Angus Andrew, Aaron Hemphill and Julian Gross) will return to Europe this summer for live dates including Field Day on 2nd June, and a series of intimate […]
Vinyl Williams AKA, Lionel Williams is a Los Angeles based artist and musician. His collage art & psyche-pop music fuses vast landscapes, multi-religious symbolism, and the supernatural into a paradoxical whirlpool — mystical scenes of simultaneity. Williams unites colour, lustre and vibrancy in his creations, as well as looking towards “tangibles of the intangible, sensory […]
Five years after the release of their debut LP, Life Embarrasses Me On Planet Earth, San Francisco’s Seventeen Evergreen have made a return with new album ‘Steady On, Scientist!’, via Lucky Number. The album is about space and density – the polarity and the duplicity of life. Names like New Order, Air, Screamadelica-era Primal Scream, […]
FatCat’s ‘post-classical’ imprint 130701 Records will be represented in live venues across Europe in May by Jóhann Jóhannsson, Hauschka and Dustin O’Halloran. Included in this stretch of dates is a triple headline bill at London’s Barbican Hall on May 18th, for details of the show seehttp://www.barbican.org.uk/music/event-detail.asp?ID=12895. Also worth checking is this month’s Barbican’s Music Podcast […]
Sydney’s Jonathan Boulet is set to release a new album ‘We Keep The Beat, Found The Sound, See The Need, Start The Heart’ via Modular Recordings on 11th June in the UK. To whet people’s appetites, this experimental prodigy is giving away a free track from the album in form of ‘Trounce’. ‘We Keep The Beat…’ is a […]
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At the beginning of the year London quartet Trailer Trash Tracys released their debut album “Ester”, a gorgeous, beguiling collection of pop songs with an intriguingly offbeam slant which quickly earned them glowing accolades from the broadsheets to the style press. The intervening months has only seen their profile grow exponentially, as they have journeyed around Europe […]
When discussing ‘Father John Misty’, Tillman paraphrases Philip Roth: ‘It’s all of me and none of me, if you can’t see that, you won’t get it’. What I call it is totally arbitrary, but I like the name. You’ve got to have a name. I never got to choose mine.” He goes on, “‘People who […]
Formed in 2004, the technical ability and deft musicality displayed in the Chicago quartet’s early EP releases saw Maps & Atlases labelled with a ‘math-rock’/ ‘post-rock’ tag, but the band have consistently defied easy categorization – perhaps a factor in engendering such a fervently loyal fanbase . Beware and Be Grateful – recorded last year in a series […]
GIG GUIDE
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ALBUM REVIEW - MICHAEL KIWANUKA: FUDGE
ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 6 NOVEMBER 2026
SINGLE REVIEW - PIPPA BLUNDELL (FEATURING FERGUS MCCREADIE): DURISDEER
EP REVIEW - BRICKNASTY: FOREVER
LIVE REVIEW - BASHT.: GORILLA, MANCHESTER - 29/10/2026
GIG GUIDE - NOVEMBER 2026
INTERVIEW - DANCING DEATH AWAY WITH ANA LUA CAIANO
ALBUM REVIEW – ANA LUA CAIANO: DEVAGAR QUE A VIDA E CURTA
ALBUM REVIEW – LOTTIE BRAZIER: ON COURSE BUT NO-ONE THERE TO SALUTE YOU
ALBUM REVIEW - THE BIG MOON: FOREVER
