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 […]
Earlier this month saw the release of brand new material from London quartet Trailer Trash Tracys in the form of “Dies in 55”, a gorgeous and utterly otherworldly pop song that sounds like nothing else around – like carnival music beamed in from another dimension, warped and rhapsodic. Now, with a much anticipated debut full-length […]
S.C.U.M are set to release a new single, Faith Unfolds, on 2 January 2012. Faith Unfolds, the follow up to the recent Whitechapel single and has proved to be a live favourite during the bands recent UK and European tours. One of the many standouts from their debut album Again Into Eyes, the single comes backed […]
Running throughout February, the NME Awards Tour kicks off in Glasgow (8th) and visits 12 venues across the UK, bringing the very best in new music directly to music fans, ending with a show-stopping finale in London (25th). NME editor Krissi Murison says: “As far as NME Awards Tour line-ups go, it’s difficult to imagine […]
The much anticipated second album from Denver-based Tennis, Young and Old, is set for release February 14th, 2012 on Fat Possum Records. Their widely praised debut Cape Dory, which The Wall Street Journal called “a winsome set of breezy pop songs,” was released earlier this year. For their forthcoming album guitarist Patrick Riley, vocalist Aliana Moore and drummer […]
To mark the release of her much anticipated debut album, ‘Yours Truly, Cellophane Nose’, the brilliant Beth Jeans Houghton will be taking her band, The Hooves Of Destiny, on a canter around the United Kingdom. For anyone picturing a girl and a guitar, think again – this is a full band performance with Beth plus […]
For the four members of CITY REIGN – Chris Bull (vocals, guitar), Michael Grice (guitar), Glaze (bass) & Sam Jones (Drums) – Numbers For Street Names is the culmination of 3 years of dedication and hard work into this comprehensive body of work. The record features songs spanning from their initial demo Daybreak EP to […]
Wolf People will play four UK shows in early 2012 (details below), including their biggest London headline set to date at the Garage on Tuesday January 17. The quartet will then return to the studio to start work on the follow-up to 2010’s debut album Steeple. In response to fan demand, Wolf People’s early material […]












