Festival No.6 (6th-9th September ‘18) has today announced legendary post-punk outfit The The as the first headliners on the bill for next year’s festival – the bands only confirmed UK date outside London. One of the most important acts of the new wave era, the cult band were a beacon of passion and truth in […]
The Plan unveil new single and video for the off-kilter ‘Bright Lights’, written about “the conflicting desire for peace and simplicity vs the desire for instability, chaos and extremity. The video features Amy Glover’s ink drawings of The Plan’s faces, devoid of emotion, and in the chorus these images merge with a clip from an installation called ‘The […]
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Irish garage-rockers Otherkin have announced a new batch of pre-Christmas shows in England and Scotland. OTHERKIN 2017 UK TOUR DATES October Sun 22/10 Deaf Institute, Manchester Mon 23/10 Crofters Rights, Bristol Tue 24/10 Club Ifor Bach, Cardiff Wed 25/10 Face Bar, Reading Thur 26/10 Camden Assembly, London Sat 28/10 Forum Basement, Tunbridge Wells Sun 29/10 […]
Past mistakes have been playing on Louis Shadwick’s mind. Part-confession, part-catharsis, new single ‘Devil’s Pact’ sees the White Kite frontman confront the damage done at the end of a long relationship with brutal honesty. Shadwick describes how the track is one of his most personal: “It came out of a very dark time,” he says. […]
‘Lifted Away’ – the new video from Joseph – is from the band’s new ‘Stay Awake EP’ (ATO Records). The video is essentially a journal entry, documenting the two-day period in August 2017 that Joseph spent recording their ‘Stay Awake EP’ with long-time collaborator Andrew Stonestreet. Natalie Schepman, who founded Joseph with her two sisters, Allison Closner and Meegan Closner, directed […]
Norwegian daze poppers Great News fire out their biting new single ‘Never Get My Love’. This is the second offering from their forthcoming debut LP Wonderfault on Bergen-based Eget Selskap. About the song’s lyrics, Great News’ Even elaborates: “When you’re feeling down and isolated, there’s this voice, like the Devil on your shoulder, telling you […]
Leeds’ post punk trio Dead Naked Hippies present ‘I Wanna Know Ya’ their new single which is taken from their debut EP which is out now on Dance To The Radio. ‘I Wanna Know Ya’ is a punk pop-tinged love letter to fleeting desire as front-woman Lucy Jowett muses: “It’s about being momentarily obsessed with […]
Just as you begin to get comfortable with something, the rug is pulled from under you. Recently, John Dwyer and his band Oh Sees released their newest record, the monolithic psych opus Orc. This release represents the 19th album under some amalgam of the name Oh Sees/Thee Oh Sees/The Oh Sees, OCS, etc. Wasting no […]
Manchester’s Makemake shares the video for debut single ‘I’m The Form In The Way’ released through Low Four Records. Makemake is the new solo project from avant-pop producer Brendan Williams (GoGo Penguin, Dutch Uncles, Kiran Leonard). Introducing Williams as an artist in his own right, the single and accompanying video – directed by Jimmy Welch […]