SOUNDS OF THE CITY 2018 LINE-UP ANNOUNCED

Sounds of the City is back taking over Manchester’s Castlefield Bowl in summer 2018.  Live artists and shows including Shed Seven, Haçienda Classiçal, A Beautiful Day Out featuring The Levellers, Rag’n’Bone Man, Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott + Elvis Costello & The Imposters will be taking the helm of what has become a staple part […]
Soup Kitchen and MIDI Artists present FRANCIS LUNG’S XMAS PARTY plus guests KEEP DANCING INC. + PAINTED NAILS Soup Kitchen, Manchester Monday 11th December 2017 Doors 7pm Tickets £6 Adv. (EXCL FEES) Following soirées with Blaenavon and more, Manchester pop troubadour Francis Lung returns with the latest installment of his annual Xmas Party, this time […]

IT’S THAT TIME OF YEAR… THE FRANCIS LUNG XMAS PARTY AT SOUP KITCHEN

THE NATIONAL WARN US OF THE ‘DARK SIDE OF THE GYM’ – WATCH NOW

The National release the video for ‘Dark Side Of The Gym’, directed, choreographed and starring NYC Ballet Resident Choreographer and soloist Justin Peck, with executive production by former Miami City Ballet dancer turned film-maker Ezra Hurwitz. Also featuring fellow former Miami City Ballet mentor and Principal dancer Patricia Delgado, the video finds the duo gracefully move around […]
The return of London-via-Brighton indie duo Peggy Sue, made up of Rosa Slade and Katy Young has recently been announced. The pair have shared their new single ‘Slow Fade’. ‘Slow Fade’ is the first single from Peggy Sue’s upcoming fifth album, due 2018. After a three year break, during which Rosa Slade and Katy Young have been […]

AFTER A THREE YEAR BREAK PEGGY SUE MAKE A COMEBACK WITH THEIR APTLY NAMED ‘SLOW FADE’ SINGLE WITH NEW ALBUM DUE 2018

GLASGOW’S BREAKFAST MUFF SHARE NEW RETRO SUPER-8 VIDEO FOR ‘CLAM’ – WATCH NOW

Glasgow’s Breakfast Muff share a retro Super-8-style new video for ‘Clam’ with The Beat. The song can be found on their new album Eurgh! (out now via Amour Foo). Eilidh McMillan explains more about the short and sweet track, “This song is about someone who lashes out at other people because they are scared of […]
Olden Yolk, the New York-based group led by songwriters, vocalists, and multi-instrumentalists Shane Butler (of Quilt) and Caity Shaffer, have announced their self-titled debut album coming out Friday 23rd February 2018 on Trouble In Mind. Along with this announcement, Olden Yolk share lead single ‘Takes One To Know One’ with an accompanying video. “‘Takes One […]

OLDEN YOLK ANNOUNCE DEBUT SELF-TITLED ALBUM DUE OUT FEBRUARY 2018 ALONGSIDE THEIR ‘TAKES ONE TO KNOW ONE’ VIDEO

AUSTRIAN ELECTRO-POP DUO LEYYA PREMIERE SURREAL NEW VIDEO FOR ‘DRUMSOLO’

Austrian electro-pop duo Leyya share enthusiastic new single ‘Drumsolo’ and announce upcoming album Sauna via Las Vegas Records. Speaking of the single ‘Drumsolo’ Leyya comments: “Drumsolo is one of our favourite tracks of the new album – on the one hand it’s very complex (at one point it doesn’t even make sense music-theoretically) but on […]
Parlophone Records have announced the release of ‘Falling from’ Graham Coxon, a new recording available on digital download and limited edition 7” vinyl – in support of the Campaign Against Living Miserably (CALM). ‘Falling’ was written by a talented unknown songwriter and dedicated father Luke Daniel, who after a long fight with chronic pain, tragically ended his own life […]

GRAHAM COXON SHARES NEW TRACK ‘FALLING’ OF WHICH PROCEEDS WILL GO TO THE CAMPAIGN AGAINST LIVING MISERABLY (CALM) – LISTEN NOW

FIELD MUSIC SHARE ‘COUNT IT UP’ THE FIRST SINGLE FROM THEIR NEW LP OUT FEBRUARY 2018

Have you heard Field Music’s privilege-bashing, Brexit-lamenting new anthem ‘Count It Up’? ‘Count It Up’ is the first single from their forthcoming new album Wide Open (out Friday 2nd February on Memphis Industries). “I’ve been down and angry about the state of everything lately,” Field Music’s David Brewis admits. “Our town (Sunderland) has become infamous in that it […]
Currently on a solo tour of the UK, I Am Kloot’s songwriter and frontman, John Bramwell, has announced the release of his first studio solo album Leave Alone The Empty Spaces, and will be released on Friday 2nd February 2018. The first single from the album ‘Who Is Anybody?’ is out now. Leave Alone The […]

JOHN BRAMWELL ON TOUR NOW ANNOUNCES NEW FEBRUARY 2018 SOLO ALBUM – LISTEN TO FIRST SINGLE ‘WHO IS ANYBODY?’ NOW