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

NOTS NOT MESSING ABOUT

All the way from Memphis, Tennessee, punk band NOTS unveil new track, “Inherently Low”, taken from their upcoming album ‘Cosmetic’. Set for release on 9th September, this album is sure to feature repetitive, fuzzy tunes with a healthy amount of distortion and discord. I mean there’s an awful lot of everything these days and this […]
With their debut album on the horizon, industrial noise band NAKED play Manchester’s Soup Kitchen on 8th September in a show which may induce a few cardiac arrests. Made up of Agnes Gryczkowska and Alexander Johnston, their first album ‘ZONE’ is set to be one of the heaviest and abrasive albums of 2016. Similar to […]

NO DRESSING UP REQUIRED FOR NAKED

EXMAGICIAN BEND WITH THE WIND, REFUSING TO FALL LIKE RAIN

*Guest Editor Pick With a video reminiscent in style to Aereogramme’s “Barriers”, Belfast duo exmagician release the video for “Bend with the Wind”, taken from their latest album ‘Scan the Blue’ (2016). The song is quite cheery on the surface which is a massive contrast to the video containing grotesque animations of humans, living in […]
*Guest Editor Pick Worldly, indie/funk jet setters Unknown Mortal Orchestra release the video for “First World Problem”, acting as a standalone single and follow up to the brilliant ‘Multi-Love’ (2015). Featuring a video of a man and woman dancing across various different landscapes, from a living room to a desert, it’s a great piece of […]

UMO CREATE SOME FIRST WORLD PROBLEMS