NEWS: THE RAINBAND – HOMETOWN SHOW

Support slots for Ocean Colour Scene, The Kaiser Chiefs, and Steve Cradock, to name but three. A headline grabbing guitar auction in aid of The Marco Simoncelli Foundation, a disabled charity set up to honour the motorcycle racer who died in a Grand Prix accident. Needless to say, these are hardly average activities for a […]
Sydney Indie Rock/Folk quartet Battleships have just released their debut 7-track mini album ‘To You’, following singles ‘In Retrospect’ and ‘Your Words’ earlier this year. ‘In Retrospect’ was the first track to grab attention with its blend of haunting vocals and atmospheric, intelligent musicianship, while follow up single ‘Your Words’ pushed their sound to the […]

VIDEOS: BATTLESHIPS – ‘IN RETROSPECT’ / ‘YOUR WORDS’

NEWS: FICTION – DEBUT ALBUM + NEW VIDEO

In the weird, hyper-speed blog-world of the 21st century musical underground Fiction’s ‘80‘s inflected, thoughtful, outsider indie has served to set them apart from a revolving door of faddish trends and fly by night ‘scenes’. Taking a template determined by debut single Curiosity, the London based quintet of James Howard, Mike Barrett, Nick Barrett, Dave […]
Two successful fundraisers in 2012, one in Manchester and one in London, have lead towards an affordable solution to erecting the Frank Sidebottom Statue in Timperley and the target sum is now within grasp. With a final push to raise the last couple of thousand pounds, friends, family and fans alike are joining forces to […]

NEWS: FRANK’S FINAL FUNDRAISER

NEWS: YEASAYER – NEW SINGLE & LIVE DATES

The latest single to be taken from the acclaimed Fragrant World, is the gothic and very addictive ‘Reagan’s Skeleton’. “A sure-fire dancefloor killer“ (Time Out), ‘Reagan’s Skeleton’ has already been championed by Zane Lowe and Nick Grimshawon Radio 1 and John Kennedy on Xfm. The new video, featuring a live performance of ‘Reagan’s Skeleton’, is directed by acclaimed artist and film makers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard (http://www.iainandjane.com/) who have […]
Girl Band are a four piece noise-rock band from Dublin, Ireland. There are no girls in the band. They formed in late 2011 and “France 98” is their second release with Any Other City Records. Musically somewhere between Bleach-era Nirvana, mclusky, Jesus Lizard and even that incendiary first Idlewild demo in their teens, long before […]

LISTEN: GIRL BAND – ‘FRANCE 98’ EP

NEWS: NICK CAVE & THE BAD SEEDS – NEW ALBUM TRAILER ‘PUSH THE SKY AWAY’

“Well, if I were to use that threadbare metaphor of albums being like children, then Push The Sky Away is the ghost-baby in the incubator and Warren’s loops are its tiny, trembling heart-beat.” Nick Cave At the heart of Push the Sky Away is a naturalism and warmth that makes it the most subtly beautiful of […]
Acclaimed video director AG Rojas (Jack White’s ‘Sixteen Saltines’, Spiritualized’s ‘Hey Jane’) has added his macabre touch to the Purity Ring song ‘Lofticries’, placing it as a soundtrack to a fever dream of vast ideas – conception, birth, sickness, and death. The band start their first headline tour of Europe this week and will then […]

NEWS: PURITY RING – ‘LOFTICRIES’ VIDEO / TOUR DATES

NEWS : SUUNS – HEAR ‘EDIE’S DREAM’ FROM THE 2ND ALBUM

Suuns will release their second full-length album, ‘Images Du Futur’, via Secretly Canadian in the UK on 4th March 2013. The Montreal four-piece are also set to play a handful of UK and European dates including London’s Village Underground on the 5th Dec, followed by ATP later that month. The first single, ‘Edie’s Dream’, starts with […]
“I wanted the album to sound like it came from a different place in time,” says Jim James. “Perhaps sounding as if it were the past of the future, if that makes any sense—like a hazy dream that a fully-realized android or humanoid capable of thought might have when it reminisces about the good old […]

NEWS: JIM JAMES – LISTEN TO ‘KNOW TIL NOW’ / ALBUM DETAILS