SHOPPING SHARE NEW VIDEO FOR ‘STRAIGHT LINES’ & ANNOUNCE UK LIVE DATES

Last week, post-punkers Shopping released their second album, Why Wait, via FatCat Records (reviewed here). Now, they’re sharing a brand new video for their single “Straight Lines”, setting the stage for their first-ever tour of the U.S. and Canada. Watch the new video below: Formed in East London in 2012 by members Rachel Aggs (guitar), […]
Bristol noise rockers Spectres will play the Soup Kitchen, Manchester on Thursday November 19th.Tickets cost £7 and can be bought here Leeds post-punk provocateurs Post War Glamour Girls will play the support slot. Spectres were formed in Barnstaple, North Devon about four years ago, but after a few months of playing to people who wanted white […]

SPECTRES ANNOUNCE POST WAR GLAMOUR GIRLS FOR MANCHESTER SHOW

BLAK HAND RECORDS PRESENT ‘BLAK RAINBOW’ FOR CASSETTE STORE DAY

Cassette Store Day comes but once a year, and for its third installment on 17 October 2015 Blak Hand Records are delighted to present Blak Rainbow, a collection of the North-West’s best garage rackets and psych kaleidoscopic gems. Side A kicks off with the lo-fi pop-playfulness of Antelopes’ Oh Caroline. Rumbling bass bounces with choppy jangles of guitar and […]
To coincide with the release of their third album, ‘Foam Island’, released last week on Warp, Darkstar has released a new video for album track Stoke The Fire.The video directed by Cieron Magnat http://cieron-cieron.tumblr.com/ is a short uplifting and true documentation profiling the people featured on the album & photographed for the artwork. James Young […]

DARKSTAR RELEASE ‘STOKE THE FIRE’ VIDEO

HINDS ANNOUNCE UK TOUR AND SHARE NEW VIDEO

Hinds offer fans another glimpse into world, in the form of a double music video/ short film for their cover of Thee Headcoatees’ ‘Davey Crockett’ and The Parrots’ cover of ‘All My Loving’, which was released earlier this year for Record Store Day as a split 7 inch single. Hinds and The Parrots spoke to Pitchfork about the making of […]
PROM are London’s new purveyors of minimal, utilitarian, regimented anti-boredom industrial surf music. New AA-side 7” single ‘Touch Me’ / ‘I’ll Teach You’ is self-released on October 23rd “The vocals are ugly,” frontwoman Angela Won-Yin Mak explains of the track’s brutish motive. “It’s about exploding platitudes and empty, exaggerated, romantic gestures born from guilt, regret […]

PROM ANNOUNCE AA SIDE 7″ SINGLE

FIELD MUSIC ANNOUNCE FIRST UK TOUR IN FOUR YEARS

Field Music have announced their first UK tour since 2012 25 Feb – Newcastle, The Cluny 26 Feb – Newcastle, The Cluny 28 Feb – York, The Duchess 03 Mar – Cardiff, The Globe 04 Mar – Exeter Phoenix, Exeter 05 Mar – Rescue Rooms, Nottingham 10 Mar – Brudenell Social Club, Leeds 11 Mar […]
Super Furry Animals, Charlotte Church and now Public Service Broadcasting to join thousands of others in protest to disrupt the Tory Party Conference. As part of a jammed packed week of protests, public meetings, direct action, theatre, music and comedy at Manchester Academy on October 5th 8pm. Some of the artists and organisers had this […]

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING JOIN PEOPLE’S ASSEMBLY BEAT BACK GIG

LOUDER THAN WORDS RETURNS FOR ITS THIRD YEAR

Now in its third year, Louder Than Words festival of music and writing grows louder each year.  Over the last two years the festival has welcomed music characters such as Jah Wobble (PiL), Tim Burgess (The Charlatans), Viv Albertine (The Slits) Hugh Cornwell (The Stranglers), Guy Garvey (Elbow) and Edwyn Collins to Manchester, talking all […]
Sleaford Mods – Invisible Britain, part band doc, part look at the state of the nation, follows the band on their recent tour of the UK and visits places which probably don’t even exist in the minds of many – the neglected, broken down and boarded up parts of the country that most would prefer […]

SLEAFORD MODS FILM ‘INVISIBLE BRITAIN’