Introducing ‘Keychange‘: a collaborative European programme led by PRS Foundation which empowers women to transform the music industry. The programme has announced it will support 60 female artists and innovators at from across Europe, who will come together to form a network of female music creators and industry innovators. With those participants being announced at […]
The Louder Than Words Festival of music and writing grows louder each year. This year it will take place between Friday 10th to Sunday 12th November 2017 at the Principal Hotel, Manchester, and is now in its fifth edition; this remains the only festival that delves into our enduring love affair between music and the written word. […]
Grey Lantern presents GAS (Live) Making his first ever appearance in Manchester Only northern date on UK tour + Herron (meandyou) (live) Royal Northern College of Music Theatre, Manchester Friday 6th October 2017 Doors 7:30pm Tickets £17.50 (EXCL FEES) here Wolfgang Voigt Official | Facebook
American singer Thomas Truax is to return with new single ‘Save Me’ featuring British pop-noiress Gemma Ray, though not yet available, Truax has booked a UK tour to coincide with its release. The single will be the first single from Thomas’s upcoming ninth full-length album. THOMAS TRUAX 2017 UK TOUR DATES Fri 15th September – […]
Surreal punk rockers The Lovely Eggs are back on the road in October, bringing their raucous live shows to audiences throughout the UK. This will be their first full-length UK tour in more than a year, after being hauled up in the studio working on a new album with Flaming Lips producer Dave Fridmann. On […]
Having just released his debut LP on Fuzz Club, Stockholm-based post-punk project NONN (the moniker of Christian Eldefors, also of The Orange Revival) is back with a brand new video for ‘Hills’ and a run of UK tour dates, including a stop at the Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia. Taken from NONN’s self-titled debut, ‘Hills’ is shot through a minimalistic […]
The Blow recently announced its new album, Brand New Abyss, with a Pledge Music campaign and today shares the third track from it, ‘The Woman You Want Her To Be’, via Bust. With the album out Friday 22nd September 2017. Brand New Abyss tracklisting: 1. Peaceful Easy Feeling 2. Dark Cold Magic 3. So There […]
Fresh from an appearance at Green Man festival, Oklahoma-bred, Berlin-based Jae Tyler has made his debut with a shimmering, gender fluid video for ‘Life As A Wall’. Tyler continues to play with binary elements of everything, moving swiftly from light to dark, male to female and psych pop to surf metal. In ‘Life As A […]
Annie Hart is best known as one-third of Au Revoir Simone, the all-female synth trio. But with the eight tracks on her solo debut, Impossible Accomplice (Instant Records, Friday 15th September 2017), Annie will emerge as an artist and producer in her own right. Annie has announced additional dates for her UK tour, full details are as […]
Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile, have joined forces to release on Friday 13th October (Marathon Artists/Matador/Milk! Recordings/Mom & Pop) a new album collaboration, Lotta Sea Lice. First single ‘Over Everything’, features dovetailing vocal lines and intricate, guitar stylings from the pair. The lyrics play out as a rambling dialogue as they compare notes about song-writing and inspiration – it was the […]
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