NEWS: LOVE YOUR TENT & BUCKINGHAMSHIRE NEW UNIVERSITY CALL AN END TO WASTELAND FESTIVAL CULTURE

The waste campaign group, Love Your Tent and Buckinghamshire New University are making a call to festivals organisers and retailers alike to end the shocking wasteland culture at festival campsites. This call follows the publication of a Bucks New University survey – on behalf of Love Your Tent – into festival-attendees behaviour and attitudes, which highlights the […]
Our Love, the new album from Caribou, is the sound of Dan Snaith and is due out on 6 October via City Slang and features collaborations with Jessy Lanza and Owen Pallett. It was mixed by David Wrench and features artwork by Jason Evans/ Matthew Cooper. Our Love is formed around a mixture of digital […]

NEWS: CARIBOU ANNOUNCES NEW ALBUM + HEAR NEW TRACK ‘CAN’T DO WITHOUT YOU’

NEWS: TELEMAN ANNOUNCE NEW TOUR DATES + WATCH THE VIDEO TO ’23 FLOORS UP’

Released this week, ‘Breakfast’, Teleman’s debut album is fast picking up critical acclaim and fan support including 6Music’s Album of the Day and live sessions for 6Music’s Lauren Laverne and Marc Riley, Radio 4 Loose Ends and XFM John Kennedy.  The quartet has announced a new string of tour dates for October including London’s Heaven. […]
Teenaged multi-instrumentalist Kiran Leonard has announced his first UK headline tour, starting on July 15th in Norwich. No stranger to the BBC 6music playlist, and much loved by bloggers and critics alike, Kiran released Bowler Hat Soup on Hand Of Glory Records on Nov 4th 2013, following the success of singles Dear Lincoln, and Port […]

NEWS: KIRAN LEONARD – FIRST UK HEADLINE TOUR DATES ANNOUNCED

NEWS: TALONS – HEAR NEW TRACK ‘THE WILD PLACES’ + NEW ALBUM DETAILS

Big Scary Monsters Records have announced the release of Talons’ latest album, New Topographics. It will be available on vinyl, CD and as a digital download from August 4th in the UK and Europe. Influenced by a somewhat unorthodox writing process, the album is an exploration of the increased interconnectivity experienced in contemporary society, despite […]
Ahead of the release of their much-anticipated debut album ‘ZABA’ on the 9th June, Oxford quartet Glass Animals have shared the stunning animated video for their new single ‘Pools’. Directed by Rafael Bonilla, the vivid stop motion video brings the already-engrossing song even further to life. ‘ZABA’ will be released on June 9th via Wolf […]

NEWS: GLASS ANIMALS UNVEIL VIDEO TO NEW SINGLE ‘POOLS’

NEWS: DANS & LÆR – NEW SINGLE ‘GREY WARBLER’

Dans & Lær’s combination of natural science and electronic beats is the brain child of guitarist and bird enthusiast Bjarke Andersen-Tran. While searching for musical inspiration among childhood possessions he came across an old beloved cassette tape with bird song. The idea of combining the knowledge stored on the tape with freshly composed electronic music […]
East India Youth, aka William Doyle, released his debut album ‘TOTAL STRIFE FOREVER’ in January, it’s been cited by many as an early contender for album of the year.  A new single ‘HEAVEN HOW LONG’ taken from the album was released on June 16th, featuring remixes by Taigen (Bo Ningen) and Perc. You can see […]

NEWS: EAST INDIA YOUTH – NEW SINGLE & VIDEO ‘HEAVEN HOW LONG’

NEWS : DOT TO DOT – MANCHESTER SET TIMES RELEASED

This year’s Dot To Dot festival will be hitting Manchester on Friday the 23rd of May and will have its biggest line-up to date. The multi venue and multi city (Manchester, Bristol,Nottingham) festival now in its ninth year brings together some of the freshest new talent and also the more established acts in music. Not […]
Smoke Fairies return to Manchester this month on the back of their new album, the eponymously titled Smoke Fairies.  There is much press about the fact that the album nearly wasn’t made due to one-half of the duo Jessica Davies suggesting to her musical partner Katherine Blamire that she was no longer sure whether Smoke […]

NEWS: SMOKE FAIRIES RETURN TO MANCHESTER