Golden Suits is a new project from Department of Eagles Fred Nicolaus. This is Nicolaus’ first album recorded on his own – although he wrote or co-wrote many of Department Of Eagles’ best-known songs (including ‘No One Does It Like You’) – and is a mix of meticulously crafted, ever-so-slightly left of center pop songs. […]
Dutch Uncles have been announced as support for Everything Everything’s UK tour in October. The two Manchester bands have been long time friends and supporters and both released albums to widespread acclaim on the same day back in January. To celebrate this coming together Dutch Uncles have remixed Everything Everything’s previous single ‘Duet’. EVERYTHING EVERYTHING […]
Following on from a round of thunderous joyous UK shows last week, Suuns have announced their full run of European summer festivals. Rounding off their current three-month long line of dates at Sasquatch this week, the Montrealean noiseniks return to Europe and the UK from June onwards, appearing at the likes of Glastonbury, Roskilde and […]
Xpress: The Album, ft. The Strokes, The Libertines & Reverend and the Makers has been released to raise awareness of suicide prevention charity, CALM. Xpress, the brain-child of Ben Tallon and Danni Skerritt of Manchester based Quenched Music, is a creative cross platform project to raise awareness of male suicide prevention charity CALM (Campaign Against […]
Ever-evolving British trio Esben and the Witch have to announced a new six-track remix EP, complementing their album of January 2013, ‘Wash the Sins Not Only the Face’. A brave and bold statement of intent, embracing new stylistic directions and a developed immediacy while maintaining the band’s signature atmospheres, Wash the Sins… was a critical […]
‘Fantasy’, the new record from Lightning Dust (Amber Webber and Josh Wells of Black Mountain), will be out on Jagjaguwar on June 24th. ‘Fantasy’ is Lightning Dust’s third proper full-length album, and it finds its inspiration in skeletal synth pop, modern R&B beats, the films of John Carpenter and – in accordance with Lightning Dust’s […]
Crocodiles represent everything about life-affirming Rock’n’Roll: they bring light out of darkness; they match reckless noise with the most beautiful melodies; they catch you off guard whilst sounding like the most perfect kind of right for the right here, right now. Charles and Brandon have been making music together since they were 18. They met in […]
Everything Everything are set to release their next single ‘Don’t Try’ on June 16th. Fresh off the back of their top 5 second album and previous single ‘Duet’, Everything Everything have announced their new single ‘Don’t Try’ from the critically acclaimed full-length ‘Arc’. ‘Don’t Try’ is the band’s summer offering ahead of a packed festival […]
Saturday May 25th 2013 – Grey Lantern Liberates Fallowfield Join Grey Lantern for a most righteous Bank Holiday Saturday as they plunder into the heart of student land with a weird and wonderful selection of artists, both new friends and old. 10 acts play across two venues, Trof Fallowfield + Wahlbar, with headliners Vision Fortune up from London to promote their thrilling new LP Mas Fiestas con el Grupo Vision […]
The last I heard of No Means No was the album ‘One’ blasting out of my flatmate’s room until 2am, pretty much every day of 2001. It was a disturbing, sleep-depriving experience, and one that pretty much explains why it’s taken me over a decade to listen to the band again, as well as my […]
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