CUE NEW SINGLE FROM THE WAVE PICTURES

‘Pool Hall’ is the new single by Silent Radio favourites (and two times guests on our radio show here & here) The Wave Pictures, taken from their forthcoming album Bamboo Diner in the Rain, due out on Moshi Moshi on 11 November. Following on from last year’s Billy Childish collaboration Great Big Flamingo Burning Moon […]
Starting out as a think-tank music and art project by the meeting of two fertile and febrile minds, Collapsing Scenery began their mission in LA warehouses and basements spreading their dark and noisy electronic sound to those in the know. This week they stream Metaphysical Cops (below), the lead single from their debut UK EP, […]

INTRODUCING: COLLAPSING SCENERY

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 […]
North Wales punks Chupa Cabra released their debut cassette single on Blak Hand Records August 22. The video for ‘Mouths To Feed’ is available to stream below. Mouths To Feed paces back and forth, perfectly capturing the band’s incandescent punk attitude, lyrics “I got wants, I got needs, I got seven deadly mouths to feed” roll […]

CHUPA CABRA SHARE VIDEO FOR MOUTHS TO FEED

AATHENS ANNOUNCE DEBUT EP

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), […]
  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 […]

LEOPOLD AND HIS FICTION ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM AND UK DATES

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