Canvasback Music/Atlantic Records artists Grouplove have announced details of a UK headline tour for February 2012 which will shortly be followed by a set of European shows. The band will also release ‘Colours’ on 20 February 2012, the next single to be taken from their critically acclaimed debut album, Never Trust A Happy Song. The […]
Newly released album ‘Hollandaze’ is a grimy, gum-splattered ménage of surf-gaze, punk and lo-fi, cut from twanging reverb & fuzz heavy guitars, thick driving bass & drum machines and overdriven hammond organ. Based in Toronto, Odonis Odonis make killer hook-driven tunes that hark back to the classic ‘80s sounds of The Jesus & Mary Chain, […]
Building on a critically-acclaimed debut album, as well as support slots with the likes of Vessels, Gallops and Nedry, Manchester based math-progsters Cyril Snear have announced that for the second time this year they are to support Amplifier at Manchester’s Academy 3, on Sunday. Cyril Snear have already featured in Silent Radio’s Who Are Ya? section and are […]
Irish singer-songwriter Fionn Regan released his 3rd album, 100 Acres of Sycamore earlier this year and now he’s sharing a video of an acoustic rendition of ‘For A Nightingale’. 100 Acres of Sycamore is the young singer-songwriter’s most personal statement yet. You can get a taste of this by checking out the title track, which […]
Just a year after their eponymous debut, Cloud Nothings, the Cleveland, Ohio-based group fronted by Dylan Baldi are set to return with a new album, ‘Attack on Memory’ on February 6th, 2012. The album was produced by the king of noise rock, Steve Albini (Nirvana, Pixies, Manic Street Preachers, and PJ Harvey). The pairing has […]
Sharon Van Etten is delighted to share news of Tramp, her Jagjaguwar debut out 6th February and the follow up to 2010’s epic (Ba Da Bing). Tramp showcases an artist in full control of her powers. With her third album, Van Etten’s words and voice are now two parts of a larger evocative whole. The […]
“Scottish supergroup”, The Moth & The Mirror, released their debut album Honestly, This World earlier via Olive Grove Records this month. The Moth & The Mirror comprise of members taken from an array of Scottish talent including: Stacey Sievwright from The Reindeer Section and Arab Strap (vocals/guitar), Gordon Skene from Frightened Rabbit (guitar/vocals), Louis Abbott […]
For any British band, the first live BBC session is a rite of passage, an entrance to a club stewarded by Peel, Lamacq, Harris and any number of legendary names from the annals of broadcasting history. Then, some years later, you realise that you’ve recorded an album’s worth of material. That’s what the peerless experimental […]
May 2012 will see Buzzcocks all ‘back to front’. They’ll play two very special shows featuring their stuff ‘n’ things and things ‘n’ stuff from right now to back then. In a three-part evening of pure Buzzcocks entertainment, they’ll kick off with new and contemporary material featuring the current line-up of Pete Shelley (vocals / […]
Having made their debut in Japan earlier this month and playing a string of UK dates last week including a sold out show at London’s Shacklewell Arms, which had the audience ecstatic with joy, Casiokids are pleased to announce a new UK tour in January 2012! ‘Aabenbaringen Over Aaskammen’ is the eagerly anticipated debut album […]