THE WOODEN SKY ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM ‘SWIMMING IN STRANGE WATERS’

Toronto alt-rock quartet The Wooden Sky will release their new album Swimming in Strange Waters on April 7th via Nevado Music. Drawing its title from a line in Frank Herbert’s 1965 sci-fi novel, Dune – “Survival is the ability to swim in strange water” – The Wooden Sky’s fifth full-length record finds frontman and multi-instrumentalist […]
Temples have announced details of the release of ‘Strange Or Be Forgotten’, the latest track to be taken from their forthcoming second album, Volcano, which is due for release on Friday March 3rd 2017 on Heavenly Recordings. Talking about the track,  bassist Tom Walmsley said: “We’re continually inundated with pressure in modern life to have […]

TEMPLES ANNOUNCE UK TOUR IN MARCH

GNOOMES announce new album: Tschak!

From adversity can come triumph, and from catharsis inspiration. Such has been the case for GNOOMES, the threesome hailing from Perm, Russia, whose second release for Rocket Recordings, Tschak! arrives in the wake of considerable turbulence and tumult, all of which has only been fuel for a creative epiphany that has seen them create a […]
The Courtneys have shared “Tour,” the latest from their upcoming album The Courtneys II. After naming Flying Nun Records as their number one influence for years, the legendary label signed the Vancouver trio as their first non-New Zealand act. The Courtneys II is available for pre-order now and due out February 17th on Flying Nun Records. About The Courtneys: The Courtneys drift back […]

THE COURTNEYS SHARE NEW SINGLE ‘TOUR’

THE JESUS AND MARY CHAIN RETURN TO MANCHESTER

The Jesus And Mary Chain will play Manchester Academy as part of their UK tour in March… Fronted by the Reid brothers Jim and William, The Jesus And Mary Chain first reformed to play the Coachella festival back in 2007. Despite regular touring – most notably a 2015 world tour which revisited their landmark album Psychocandy – […]
Manchester’s idiosyncratic art-popologists and Silent Radio firm favourites Dutch Uncles return with Big Balloon, their new studio album, on 17th February via Memphis Industries. Today, the band shares one of the new album’s standout tracks Oh Yeah which features backing vocals from Stealing Sheep and Everything Everything. Frontman Duncan Wallis explains the positive sentiment behind […]

HEAR DUTCH UNCLES NEW TRACK ‘OH YEAH’

LIVERPOOL’S THE CHEAP THRILLS SHARE NEW VIDEO + EP

Liverpool psych-pop band The Cheap Thrills explode back onto the scene after a creative journey in the cult-favourite Parr Street Studios brought them an EP that is well worth a listen. ‘Glare’ excels in confidence, giving a band who has been lurking in the shadows of the ever mind-bending scouse music scene for the last […]
With his latest EP ‘Savage Times Vol. 5‘ out now via Innovative Leisure, Los Angeles-based artist Hanni El Khatib is sharing a new visual piece for his latest single ‘Savage Times’. Hanni El Khatib’s first idea for his Savage Times project was to do something he’d never done before. Instead, he ended up doing … well, everything […]

HANNI EL KHATIB SHARES NEW VIDEO FOR ‘SAVAGE TIMES’

THE COMET IS COMING…TO MANCHESTER

Following a 2016 that saw their debut LP Channel The Spirits gain a Mercury Prize nomination, Leaf Label signings The Comet Is Coming are returning to Manchester at The Soup Kitchen on Friday, May 5th. The bands influences are said to include Sun Ra, Frank Zappa, Jimi Hendrix and the BBC Radiophonic Workshops from which […]
Manchester four piece Calvadore are doing something a little different – something that caught our eyes over here at Silent Radio. A gig swap with The Hungry Ghosts from Birmingham, Calvadore and their brummy mates will duke it out and take turns headlining in their hometowns. That bring Calvadore’s first headline show at the Aatma venue in […]

MANCHESTER’S CALVADORE PLAY AATMA THIS FRIDAY