MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL LIVE AT THE PAVILION THEATRE LINE-UP HERE

Manchester International Festival (MIF) is the world’s first festival of original, new work and special events, staged every two years in Manchester, UK. MIF this year takes place from 29th June to 16th July 2017 at venues all over the city. For MIF’s Live at the Pavilion Theatre at Festival Square, Salford’s foremost festival Sounds […]
Public Service Broadcasting have shared the video for their current single ‘Progress’. Directed by Lucy Dawkins and Tom Readdy; previous collaborators of the band on their videos for ‘Sputnik’ and ‘Go!’, and produced by Yes Please Productions – the video is a playful look at a serious and pertinent topic, namely mechanisation and its true […]

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING REVEAL VIDEO FOR ‘PROGRESS’

SHITKID ANNOUNCES DEBUT ALBUM & DROPS ‘TROPICS’ VIDEO

Clearer than the lo-fi murkiness of their debut EP but still very much the opposite to the slick pop dominating today’s musical landscape, ShitKid – AKA 24-year old Åsa Söderqvist – will release her highly anticipated debut album Fish via PNKSLM Recordings on Friday 2nd June 2017. In anticipation of this, ShitKid has just shared […]
Indie legends, The Wedding Present, are set to release a new, four-track, EP entitled ‘Home Internationals’ on the Spanish record label El Segell del Primavera, for this year’s Record Store Day. It is set to be released Saturday 22nd April 2017. Always coming out with something unexpected, the EP sees The Wedding Present developing the […]

THE WEDDING PRESENT RELEASE VIDEO FOR ‘SCOTLAND’ TAKEN FROM THEIR RECORD STORE DAY EP RELEASE

IS HE TALKING ABOUT HIMSELF? MAC DEMARCO SHARES THE VIDEO FOR ‘THIS OLD DOG’

Mac DeMarco will release This Old Dog, his third album and first full-length since 2014’s Salad Days, on Friday 5th May 2017 via Captured Tracks. Following the release of lead singles, ‘My Old Man’ and ‘This Old Dog’; a pair of songs that immediately show a new sonic direction and the personal nature of the […]
Following last year’s highly praised album House In The Tall Grass, Tokyo’s Kikagaku Moyo have announced plans for a new EP ‘Stone Garden’, and summer European live dates. ‘Stone Garden EP’ will be released on vinyl & digital on Friday 21st April via the record label the band run, Guruguru Brain. They have also just […]

KIKAGAKU MOYO ANNOUNCE ‘STONE GARDEN EP’ & SUMMER TOUR DATES

WATCH GIRL RAY’S NEW VIDEO FOR ‘STUPID THINGS’ HERE

North London three-piece Girl Ray share their new video for ‘Stupid Things’. Starring the band themselves and shot over the course of a weekend in Cambridge, director Alex Cantouris took inspiration from films such as Atonement and The Other Boleyn Girl. Girl Ray’s Poppy Hankin said of the video:”We’d always thought a period drama influenced […]
The Norwegian electronic pop collective Young Dreams return with a new electronic pop single ‘Sinner (I’m Sorry)’, out now on Blanca Records. This summery jam is their first new material since 2013’s Spellemann Prize-winning debut album Between Places (Modular). Musically fusing 70s and 90s RnB with contemporary elements and produced with Burt Bacharach’s lounge melodies, […]

YOUNG DREAMS RELEASE ELECTRONIC PSYCH POP SINGLE ‘SINNER (I’M SORRY)’

DUMB’S NEW ALBUM & TITLE TRACK ‘LIVE FAST DIE DUMB’ AVAILABLE NOW… CLEVER THAT

Austin, Texas shit kicking guitar trio Dumb have just released debut album Live Fast Die Dumb. Originally released on cassette only, by L.A. label Gnar Tapes back in 2013, the album is now getting a proper release on vinyl, CD and digital courtesy of Brooklyn label Axis Mundi. Title track ‘Live Fast Die Dumb’ is […]
Manchester’s Sprinters share ‘Figure It Out’ taken from their upcoming self titled debut LP due Friday 5th May 2017 on vinyl & digital platforms via Icecapades (Slowcoaches, Sex Hands, Joey Fourr etc.). ‘Figure It Out’ is the first taste from their debut album in which they deliver a golden pop-tinged track that boasts potent, softly […]

LISTEN TO SPRINTERS NEW SINGLE ‘FIGURE IT OUT HERE WITH SELF-TITLED DEBUT ALBUM OUT MAY