BON IVER ANNOUNCE EUROPEAN TOUR

After sharing three incredibly well-received tracks from upcoming album 22, A Million – out 30th September on Jagjaguwar – Bon Iver have announced a European tour – their first since 2012 – taking place across January and February 2017. Bon Iver debuted 22, A Million with a “truly remarkable” (NPR) front-to-back live performance last month at the Eaux Claires Music & Arts Festival, hosted […]
Few welcome the death of another London music venue. When Powerlunches closed at the end of last year, Kingsland Road lost one of its last vestiges of DIY subculture – and a thriving, inclusive scene along with it. It was in the few months before it shut its doors for good that Patrick Browne (vox/guitar), […]

AATHENS ANNOUNCE DEBUT EP

LEOPOLD AND HIS FICTION ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM AND UK DATES

  Newly Austin-based band Leopold and His Fiction will release their new album ‘Darling Destroyer’ next year via ILA/Native Fiction. The band release the first single off the album, ‘Cowboy’ today. The single is accompanied by a video which mirrors the self-mythologizing swagger of the track and relives the excitement of classic crime dramas. The […]
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 […]

CASSETTE STORE DAY ANNOUNCES FIRST WAVE OF RELEASES

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

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 […]
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 […]

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

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’