FIRST WAVE OF ARTISTS ANNOUNCED FOR DOT TO DOT FESTIVAL 2017

 The UK’s premier festival for unearthing the best new talent, Dot To Dot Festival, returns to Manchester, Bristol, and Nottingham from the 26th-28th May 2017 for its 12th edition. After smashing record attendance, and marking a sell-out Manchester event in 2016, more of the same is expected for 2017, with a huge line-up of established […]
GLOK, is a solo instrumental electronic artist working primarily with analogue equipment. Influenced by 1980s New York electronic scene heavy weights like Arthur Russell, Mr. Fingers, the DIY early Chicago house sound, ’70s German krautrock champions like Neu!, and Kraftwerk as well as Steve Reich’s minimalist work, and modern classical and ambient composer William Basinski; […]

GLOK SHARES A TRANSPORTATIVE SOUNDSCAPE IN BRAND NEW SINGLE ‘PULSING’

SHE DREW THE GUN ANNOUNCE UPCOMING ALBUM AND UK TOUR DETAILS

She Drew The Gun have announced details of their album Memories Of Another Future and their upcoming UK tour. To be released Friday March 17th 2017 on Skeleton Key Records and produced by James Skelly (The Coral), Memories Of Another Future contains the singles ‘Poem’, ‘Pit Pony’ and ‘Since You Were Not Mine’. A new […]
Dutch Uncles have announced a special event to launch new record, Big Balloon (released this Friday, 17th February 2017 on Memphis Industries). To support its release, the band have partnered with TeamSport, a new go karting facility housed underneath Manchester Arena, for a special race day. The band have challenged fans, friends, and foes to […]

GO GO-KARTING WITH DUTCH UNCLES AS THEY RELEASE NEW ALBUM ‘BIG BALLOON’

MR. ELEVATOR MOVES FORWARDS WITH SECOND TRACK ‘ENDING’

Mr. Elevator – formed in Southern California in 2012 by Thomas Dolas and Justin Martinez (and their mutual love of Donovan) – eschews guitars for vintage synthesizers, organs, and electric pianos, distinguishing themselves within the fuzzy, distorted contemporary Psych-Pop scene. Check out their recently released second track ‘Ending’ from their latest album, When the Morning […]
Manchester’s idiosyncratic art-popologists Dutch Uncles return with Big Balloon, their new studio album, to be released on Friday 17th February 2017 (Memphis Industries). Today, the band shares their latest single ‘Streetlight’. “‘Streetlight’ is about becoming content with your loneliness,” Dutch Uncles’ vocalist Duncan Wallis explains. “It’s about being skeptical, but aware and open to new […]

DUTCH UNCLES SHARE NEW TRACK ‘STREETLIGHT’

THE WAVE PICTURES DINE OUT WITH NEW VIDEO ‘BAMBOO DINER IN THE RAIN’

The Wave Pictures reveal the new video for their current single, ‘Bamboo Diner in the Rain’, taken from their new album of the same name. The video is The Wave Pictures’ second collaboration with talented London filmmaker, Ed Prosser. The band says of the video: “Ed’s surreal vision of the song seems to encompass both […]
Kiran Leonard shares brand new song ‘Cracked Globe’. The recording features Kiran playing a number of guitars simultaneously in a truly unique fashion, as he explains in his statement below, and will be available on an upcoming tape, Monarchs Of The Crescent Pail (out next month on Very Bon Records). Kiran Leonard said of the […]

KIRAN LEONARD SHARES BRAND NEW SONG ‘CRACKED GLOBE’

SOUND CITY+ LAUNCHES 10TH ANNIVERSARY EDITION

Internationally renowned music industry conference Sound City+ is celebrating its ten year anniversary on Friday 26th May 2017 with a host of high profile speakers from across the industry, and as ever promises an intensive packed programme of speakers, debate panels, workshops and the acclaimed Sound City+ 1-2-1 meetings. This year’s ‘Revolutions’ theme will enable […]
On Friday 10th February 2017, Spring King will be headlining the first ‘What’s New’ event by the Northern tastemakers, Too Many Blogs. Taking place in Islington Mill, Salford, the site is a legendary Greater Manchester venue that is currently fundraising in order to keep its doors open. You can learn more about why Islington Mill […]

#RAISE THE ROOF AT ISLINGTON MILL FUNDRAISER THIS FRIDAY