Snapped Ankles have taken on The Fugs’ counterculture anthem and updated it for the Edward Snowden generation. From the forest floor: “Having unearthed The Fugs’ ‘CIA Man’ some years before, we were shocked to discover a newer, more sinister agency had taken over from the diatribe’s protagonist, so we updated Tuli Kupferberg’s list of ills… […]
Everything Everything have announced an EP of brand new material, A Deeper Sea. The EP is the first new material from the four-piece since their fourth album ‘A Fever Dream’. A critical and commercial success, the record hit the Top 5 on its release, the joint-highest charting album of their career to date. This brand […]
Swedish, London based band Francobollo have returned with new single ‘Hoo Ha’ — the first material since their acclaimed 2017 debut album ‘Long Live Life’. Produced by Charlie Andrew (alt-J, Sivu, Marika Hackman, MONEY etc) -‘Hoo Ha’ is an exemplary return from the unpredictable 4-piece. Speaking a little more on the new track, frontman Simon […]
Cate Le Bon and Tim Presley (White Fence) have teamed up for a second album as DRINKS. The new album, Hippo Lite, will be released on Drag City worldwide on April 20, 2018. DRINKS began in 2015 with the release of their debut LP, Hermits on Holiday on Presley’s own Birth Records. Today they’ve shared […]
Currently in the middle of their sold-out UK tour supported by Phill Jupitus as Porky The Poet and Mr Ben and The Bens, The Lovely Eggs reveal the mind-melting new video for their new single “Wiggy Giggy”, which is due out on 7″ on Friday 16 February, from the album This Is Eggland, out on […]
With her spell-binding fourth album, ‘Dead Magic’ set for release on March 2nd 2018 via City Slang, Anna von Hausswolff has shared second track ‘The Truth, The Glow, The Fall’ from the record. ‘Dead Magic’, Anna von Hausswolff’s fourth album, is five songs extending over 47 minutes and 20 seconds and was composed in the […]
Spanish quartet Hinds – Carlotta Cosials, Ana Perrotte, Ade Martin and Amber Grimbergen – have announced their long-awaited second record ‘I Don’t Run’. Out April 6th via Lucky Number, the new album shows a bigger, better, faster, funnier, more dexterous Hinds. Co-produced by the band and Gordon Raphael [The Strokes, Regina Spektor], and engineered by […]
Amyl and the Sniffers are a punk band possessed by the spirit of seventies Australian rock. Amy Taylor (vocals), Bryce Wilson (drums), Dec Martens (guitar) and Gus Romer (bass) are former housemates who formed the band, wrote a handful of tunes and released their debut EP, Giddy Up, all in a span of 12 hours. […]
London-based post-punk four-piece H.Grimace have shared the new video for their album track ‘Lipsyncer’. Director Kris Rimmer explained the video, “Hannah (the lead singer) and I wanted to create a video that echoed the contemporary issues raised in the song’s lyrics. In her own words, the track is about “young men or women attempting to replicate […]
This is the year that Mo Kenney plugs in, the Canadian singer recently released new album The Details including track ‘Unglued’; plus Mo has announced a string of UK tour dates in the new year including a show at The Eagle in Manchester on Sunday 11th February. MO KENNEY FEBRUARY 2018 UK TOUR DATES Saturday […]
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LIVE REVIEW - KEO: MANCHESTER RITZ - 07/03/2026
ALBUM REVIEW - NUBIYAN TWIST: CHASING SHADOWS
ALBUM REVIEW - GYDA VALTYSDOTTIR: MOTHER PEARL
ALBUM REVIEW - THE SCRATCH: PULL LIKE A DOG
ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 13 MARCH 2026
ALBUM REVIEW - FOTOCRIME: SECURITY
ALBUM REVIEW - TENDERNESS: TRUE
ALBUM REVIEW - ART SCHOOL GIRLFRIEND: LEAN IN
ALBUM REVIEW - SQUEEZE: TRIXIES
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