Having just finished touring the UK with Grandaddy, Amber Arcades have recently unveiled new single, ‘Can’t Say That We Tried’, taken from the upcoming ‘Cannonball EP’. Songwriter Annelotte De Graaf says of the song, “I feel like a lot of times when I am attracted to a certain person or situation, it is not so […]
Blonde Summer share the music video for their single ‘Sha La La’ — their latest single now available via Dangerbird Records (Silversun Pickups, Fitz and The Tantrums). The A Side ‘Beer On Ice’ and B Side ‘Sha La La’ are both returns to what Chris Pope, the band’s mastermind, does best — telling stories through fuzzed […]
Everything Everything have announced two low key comeback shows in Manchester and London to premiere new songs from their upcoming album. Boxed In will be the support on both dates. The dates are: Tuesday 20th June 2017 @ Albert Hall, Manchester Wednesday 21st June 2017 @ Heaven, London General sale tickets to these intimate shows […]
Manchester International Festival (MIF) is the world’s first festival of original, new work and special events, staged every two years in Manchester, UK. MIF this year takes place from 29th June to 16th July 2017 at venues all over the city. For MIF’s Live at the Pavilion Theatre at Festival Square, Salford’s foremost festival Sounds […]
Public Service Broadcasting have shared the video for their current single ‘Progress’. Directed by Lucy Dawkins and Tom Readdy; previous collaborators of the band on their videos for ‘Sputnik’ and ‘Go!’, and produced by Yes Please Productions – the video is a playful look at a serious and pertinent topic, namely mechanisation and its true […]
Clearer than the lo-fi murkiness of their debut EP but still very much the opposite to the slick pop dominating today’s musical landscape, ShitKid – AKA 24-year old Åsa Söderqvist – will release her highly anticipated debut album Fish via PNKSLM Recordings on Friday 2nd June 2017. In anticipation of this, ShitKid has just shared […]
Indie legends, The Wedding Present, are set to release a new, four-track, EP entitled ‘Home Internationals’ on the Spanish record label El Segell del Primavera, for this year’s Record Store Day. It is set to be released Saturday 22nd April 2017. Always coming out with something unexpected, the EP sees The Wedding Present developing the […]
Mac DeMarco will release This Old Dog, his third album and first full-length since 2014’s Salad Days, on Friday 5th May 2017 via Captured Tracks. Following the release of lead singles, ‘My Old Man’ and ‘This Old Dog’; a pair of songs that immediately show a new sonic direction and the personal nature of the […]
Following last year’s highly praised album House In The Tall Grass, Tokyo’s Kikagaku Moyo have announced plans for a new EP ‘Stone Garden’, and summer European live dates. ‘Stone Garden EP’ will be released on vinyl & digital on Friday 21st April via the record label the band run, Guruguru Brain. They have also just […]
North London three-piece Girl Ray share their new video for ‘Stupid Things’. Starring the band themselves and shot over the course of a weekend in Cambridge, director Alex Cantouris took inspiration from films such as Atonement and The Other Boleyn Girl. Girl Ray’s Poppy Hankin said of the video:”We’d always thought a period drama influenced […]
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