18 months since they made their London debut, with a headline show at The Lexington, Cigarettes After Sex are set to return. CIGARETTES AFTER SEX NOVEMBER 2017 TOUR DATES Sun 12 – Nottingham – Rock City Mon 13 – Leeds – Stylus Tue 14 – Glasgow – QMU Thur 16 – Belfast – Limelight Sun 19 – […]
Following the release of their second album Albeit Living in July on Felte Recordings, L.A. punk/EBM band Sextile, have announced plans for an extensive European tour at the start of 2018 and have also shared a new video. The band’s first ever European tour will kick off with two weeks of dates across the UK, before […]
Django Django are set to release their brand new album Marble Skies on Friday 26th January 2018, on Because Music. The album recently launched its first single ‘Tic Tac Toe’, a rousing, trippy upbeat rock track. The accompanying video for ‘Tic Tac Toe’ was directed by John Maclean, brother of Django Django drummer/producer David Maclean […]
Jen Cloher’s new video for single ‘Strong Woman’ was filmed just weeks ago in a London warehouse during a whirlwind sold-out tour of the UK and Europe. The video is the result of a back-to-basics approach – a two-camera crew captured Cloher and her band blitzing through one of the album’s highlights. The song itself […]
Hanne Hukkelberg releases her new album, and first in 5 years, Trust tomorrow. She has recently shared her video for latest single ‘Embroidery’. The video plays with size and perspective, investigating the idea of digital stitching, a reference to the song name. Trust tracklisting: 1. Europium Heights 2. IRL 3. The Whip 4. Embroidery 5. Fall […]
May we present a one-two shot to the ribs from the Castle Face Records roster, a Thursday in Manchester, a Friday in London, spearheaded by those indefatigable and indispensable Oh Sees, a live force to be feared. Joined by white mages of healing and appealing frequencies Once and Future Band, underground pop wunderkind cum laude Kelley […]
The Pink Diamond Revue, a three piece project from outer-space via Reading, have created a mixture of heady electro and vintage blues. After perfecting their experiments across the UKs seediest basement bars, the team are now ready to release ‘Go Go Girl’ unto their unsuspecting public. Fronted by their leader Acid Dol (a model from […]
Other States have released ‘Annabei’, the B-side to their latest single ‘Come Back To Me’. Born from a 10 hour bus trip between Dallas and El Paso taken by writer-keyboardist Mike Lord, Other States is as much about place as it is sound, with songs weaved out of imagined tales from abandoned towns and wild […]
Sparked by an interest in the craft of solo performance, Islet member Mark Daman Thomas’s latest project Farm Hand takes his musical explorations into a more solitary terrain, drawing inspiration from his homeland in the sparsely populated hills of Mid-Wales. Freewheeling and full of deep, cyclical melodies, Farm Hand’s debut LP International Dreams, due Friday 3rd November 2017 on Shape Records, was […]
Louder Than Words celebrates that essential, magical relationship between music and writing. Whether it’s Guy Garvey talking lyrics; Edwyn Collins performing his own music or Hugh Cornwell talking about life in The Stranglers, the Festival has something for anyone with a love for music, and the way words are used to inform and contribute to […]
GIG GUIDE
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ALBUM REVIEW - CERYS HAFANA: ANGEL
ALBUM REVIEW - MULATU ASTATKE: MULATU PLAYS MULATU
ALBUM REVIEW - THE GENESIS: A STORY
ALBUM REVIEW - JOHNNY MARR: LOOK OUT LIVE!LEAH
ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 19 SEPTEMBER 2025
ALBUM REVIEW - WEVAL: CHOROPHOBIA
ALBUM REVIEW - GHOSTWOMAN: WELCOME TO THE CIVILIZED WORLD
LIVE REVIEW - BLACK COUNTRY, NEW ROAD: MANCHESTER ALBERT HALL - 13/09/25
ALBUM REVIEW - PATRICK WATSON: UH OH
ALBUM REVIEW - IGORRR: AMEN
