NEWS: SCROOBIUS PIP – SPOKEN WORD TOUR DATES

At Latitude 2012 Scroobius Pip headlined the spoken word tent on a Saturday night to a crowd of, to his surprise, over 4000 festival goers. All of whom stood in silence during each piece and engaged like a good drunk festival crowd should in between. It was this overwhelming show that made Pip decide to […]
King Krule -the primary creative vessel for 17-year-old south east London-based singer/producer/songwriter Archy Marshall – has just released a stunning double A-side single  featuring two stunning new tracks, ‘Rock Bottom’ and ‘Octopus’. The release comprises two very different songs, revealing alternate sides of the project’s coin. ‘Rock Bottom’ is a triumphantly doomed airstrike of rhythm […]

NEWS: KING KRULE – HEAR AA SIDE ‘ROCK BOTTOM/OCTOPUS’ + LIVE DATES

NEWS: TAME IMPALA – HEAR ‘APOCALYPSE DREAMS’ + NEW ALBUM & UK LIVE DATES

Modular Recordings is proud to announce that Australian psych warriors Tame Impala will return with their new album Lonerism, to be released globally this October 2012. Again recorded and produced almost entirely by Kevin Parker in studios, planes, hotels and homes around the world, and mixed by Dave Fridmann (The Flaming Lips / MGMT), Lonerism’s […]
2:54 -sisters Hannah and Colette Thurlow- have debuted a special cover version of Seal and Adamski’s Nineties classic, ‘Killer’. Currently main support to the XX on their European comeback tour, they just premiered the surprise track online, with Colette commenting, “There’s a nostalgia to ‘Killer’ that each member of the band identifies with. We grew […]

NEWS: 2:54 – HEAR THEIR COVER OF ‘KILLER’

VIDEO: WE ARE AUGUSTINES – ‘PHILADELPHIA’

Brooklyn’s We Are Augustines have released a live video of Philadelphia (The City of Brotherly Love) this week following successful appearances at both Reading and Leeds Festivals playing in front of packed audiences. The video was recorded at The Neptune in Seattle this year, one of their favourite venues on the gig circuit since they […]
DIY pop raconteur Marc Rigelsford – the mastermind behind Manchester’s Magic Arm – has got some nerve. It takes a brave soul to pen a debut album as daring and different as 2009’s acclaimed Make Lists, Do Something – a record that tumbles through the kaleidoscopic pop sprawl of early McCartney and Beach Boys adding […]

NEWS: MAGIC ARM – DOWNLOAD THE TITLE TRACK FROM THE ‘PUT YOUR COLLAR UP’ EP

VIDEO: FIRST AID KIT – ‘WOLF’

First Aid Kit have unveiled the dreamlike and kaleidoscopic video for their new single ‘Wolf’ which is out now on Wichita Recordings. Shot in the forest of Järvsö, Hälsingland in Sweden and directed by Johan Söderberg. “It’s about our destruction of the planet,” said the band. “But it’s also about finding the animal within you. […]
Mixing an energetic blend of punk, ska and northern soul with a healthy dose of pop sensibility and hometown swagger The Minx have been tearing up venues around the UK collecting an ever growing fanbase. With support from Mike Joyce (The Smiths), Jennie Matthias (The Belle Stars), Tom Hingley (Inspiral Carpets) and a number of […]

NEWS: THE MINX – LIVE DATES

NEWS: DUTCH UNCLES – NEW ALBUM DETAILS + FREE DOWNLOAD

Dutch Uncles have announced the release, via Memphis Industries, of their new album ‘Out of Touch in the Wild’ on 14th January 2013 and new single ‘Fester’ on 12th November. Isn’t it great to see a young band growing the old fashioned way? Three albums into their career, Manchester’s Dutch Uncles, a group who pitched […]
Manchester based trumpeter, composer, arranger and band-leader Matthew Halsall is one of the rising stars of the UK jazz scene. His unique sound was brilliantly described as “Rain-streaked spiritual jazz from Manchester” by the Independent On Sunday and previous albums have found Halsall exploring the modal jazz of John and Alice Coltrane or paying heartfelt […]

NEWS: MATTHEW HALSALL – NEW ALBUM ‘FLETCHER MOSS PARK’ DETAILS