CASSETTE STORE DAY ANNOUNCES FIRST WAVE OF RELEASES

Cassette Store Day is back this autumn on October 8th with a day of global celebrations and all in honour of the humble cassette tape. The first list of UK releases is as follows: Pixies – Head Carrier (Pixies Music) Courtney Barnett – Sometimes I Sit And Think, And Sometimes I Just Sit (Kissability) Gonjasufi […]
This Is The Kit have just shared their video for “Cold and Got Colder,” a stand out track from Bashed Out, conceived and directed by This Is the Kit’s main mover and shaker Kate Stables. Kate says of the video in which she carries a canoe over land, Fitzcarraldo-style: “Often in life we’re struck by […]

THIS IS THE KIT SHARE ‘COLD AND GOT COLDER’ VIDEO

ODONIS ODONIS SHARE NEW VIDEO ‘NEEDS’! ALBUM ‘POST PLAGUE’

Odonis Odonis‘ Post Plague, delivers a powerful blend of industrial, electronic and science fiction. OO’s post-apocalyptic anthems construct stark soundscapes and saturate them with layer upon layer of industrial grime and was released on felte earlier this summer to high acclaim from a variety of sites and publications including Pitchfork, NPR, THUMP, The Quietus & Drowned in […]
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 […]
Louder than Words

LOUDER THAN WORDS SHOUT ABOUT THIS YEAR’S FESTIVAL

BAYONNE SHARES NEW VIDEO FOR ‘APPEALS’

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 & […]
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 […]

FINAL WAVE OF ACTS ANNOUNCED FOR NEIGHBOURHOOD FESTIVAL

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

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, […]
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 […]

GUADALUPE PLATA TO PLAY MANCHESTER AS PART OF RARE UK TOUR

STRANGE COLLECTIVE SHARE NEW VIDEO FOR SUPER TOUCHY

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 […]
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 […]

SLOWCOACHES ANNOUNCE DEBUT ALBUM