Louder than Words

LOUDER THAN WORDS SHOUT ABOUT THIS YEAR’S FESTIVAL

Where: The Palace Hotel, Oxford Road, Manchester, M60 7HA When: November 11-13 2016 What: www.louderthanwordsfest.com The Louder Than Words Festival of music and writing grows louder each year.  Now in its fourth edition, this remains the only festival that interrogates that enduring love affair between music and the written word. Since its first incarnation in 2013, audience and contributor numbers have more […]
With his debut album due out later this year, Texas-based Bayonne, aka Roger Sellers, is sharing a new video for his second single ‘Appeals‘, from the upcoming record. Having built quite a fan base in his Texan hometown over the past few years, encompassing a sound that compares to the likes of Panda Bear, Tory Y Moi & […]

BAYONNE SHARES NEW VIDEO FOR ‘APPEALS’

FINAL WAVE OF ACTS ANNOUNCED FOR NEIGHBOURHOOD FESTIVAL

BLOSSOMS WHITE LIES FENECH SOLER // THE PIGEON DETECTIVES // JONES // VAULTS // SHOCK MACHINE + MORE ADDED TO THE BILL Stockport’s finest number one selling band Blossoms along with the critically acclaimed White Lies have been announced as daytime headliners for Manchester’s new multi-venue festival Neighbourhood taking place on Saturday 8th October. This […]
Thom Sonny Green‘s debut solo project, High Anxiety, was released on Friday via his own label Sudden Records (in conjunction with Infectious) in the UK and Canvasback in the US. The album is a far cry from his work as alt-J‘s drummer, experimenting with the more cerebral side of electronic production in the vein of Clams Casino, Arca, […]

THOM SONNY GREEN (ALT-J) STREAMS DEBUT ALBUM ‘HIGH ANXIETY’

GUADALUPE PLATA TO PLAY MANCHESTER AS PART OF RARE UK TOUR

Spanish psychedelia outfit – Guadalupe Plata will be playing a special show at The Castle Hotel on September 15th 2016. The band are renowned for using weird and wonderful instruments including cigar box guitars, coffee can percussion, electrified wash tub basses in their sets and have won prizes at the Impala Awards and Independent Music […]
Liverpool quartet Strange Collective have released a video for the single ‘Super Touchy’. The band’s EP of the same name was released on vinyl July 1st via Salvation Records and through cassette on Blak Hand. The video, shot in a dark Liverpool basement, exposes the raw underbelly of the Strange Collective partying lifestyle and ultimately twists us through […]

STRANGE COLLECTIVE SHARE NEW VIDEO FOR SUPER TOUCHY

SLOWCOACHES ANNOUNCE DEBUT ALBUM

London deadpan punk rockers Slowcoaches are getting set to bring their debut album into the world. The fast, furious, clatteringly majestic and downright fun ‘Nothing Gives’ will be released via Leisure & District on 2nd December. With ‘Norms and Values’, the latest cut to be revealed, Slowcoaches purvey a sassy, tongue in cheek observation of aspects […]
Manchester label This City Is Ours are thrilled to announce the release of Dujat’s Dither. A French national raised in China, Dujat is a producer and sound designer currently residing in Manchester, UK. Dujat’s inborn sense of wanderlust sees him capturing field recordings in the most alien of earthly locations. As though crafting the otherworldly […]

THIS CITY IS OURS ANNOUNCE COLLABORATION WITH DUJAT

NORTH WALES PUNKS CHUPA CABRA RELEASE NEW SINGLE

CHUPA CABRA – remember the name. These three guys from Deeside, North Wales are about to drop their first cassette. Chupa Cabra are a garage outfit bring a dizzying blend of psych punk and 60’s West Coast garage rock worthy of soundtracking Hunter S. Thompson’s journey into the desert. The band released their debut single “My Girl” […]
THE FENTONVILLE STREET BAND and KATIE PHAM AND THE MOONBATHERS have just released their debut on Sheffield’s Delicious Clam Records. The debut release of both bands marks the culmination of years of friendship, love and partying between their respective band leaders – the enigmatic Jack Athey and the sultry Katie Pham. Jack fronts The Fentonville Street Band, a […]

NEW SPLIT EP OUT NOW FROM DELICIOUS CLAM RECORDS