NEWS: THE VOLUNTARY BUTLER SCHEME – ‘BRAIN FREEZE’ VIDEO + APP SINGLE

Since making 2011’s largely electronic album The Grandad Galaxy – The Voluntary Butler Scheme’s Rob Jones has been learning some new non-electronic skills in the shape of the Trumpet and the Saxophone.  Having learnt them largely from Youtube clips and iPhone apps – it inspired The Voluntary Butler Scheme to release his next single as […]
Purity Ring’s Corin Roddick has reworked their song ‘Belispeak’ to feature a ferocious new verse by Danny Brown. Brown, who first saw Purity Ring on their summer tour, expressed interest in wanting to work with them via Twitter. The two then exchanged ideas through email and Brown re-imagined ‘Belispeak’s fairy-tale creepiness as an evocative snapshot of his […]

NEWS: PURITY RING – DOWNLOAD ‘BELISPEAK II’ + UK LIVE DATES

NEWS: HOT CHIP VINYL EMPORIUM TO PLAY MANCHESTER OXFAM SHOP

Oxfam and Domino have announced that Hot Chip will be continuing their DJ ‘takeover’ of Oxfam shops with a gig in the Oxfam Emporium shop, Oldham Street, Manchester on Saturday 13th October. The Oxfam shop will give up its floor space to become an exclusive Oxjam shop for a one-off gigs, whilst simultaneously selling great […]
It’s been almost a year since The Kentish Town Forum hosted James Blake’s last live performance on UK shores, but his unique brand of introspective electronica will return to the British stage once again for a series of performances this winter. Having released one of 2011’s most talked about and critically praised records in the […]

NEWS: JAMES BLAKE – ‘CONFIDENCE BOOST’ VIDEO + LIVE DATES

LISTEN: NIGHT ENGINE – ‘I’LL MAKE IT WORTH YOUR WHILE’

The music of the city, of the dark, of the underground basements and behind locked doors clubs is back. Night Engine, four young men with a belief in the power of music to move feet as well as minds, have been in rehearsals since their formation in January 2012 with the express intent of rekindling […]
Limited edition double A side 7″ Vinyl. Tunnel Vision/Sins Unknown. Recorded at Sandhills Studios, Liverpool. Engineered by Kyle Western. Mixed and produced by Embers. Directed by Sam Alder & Toby Potter (Plastic Zoo/MCR Scenewipe) Shot by Luke Bather & Nathan Bather Purchase here – http://embersembers.bigcartel.com/ www.embersembers.com

VIDEO: EMBERS – TUNNEL VISION

NEWS: SCOTT AND CHARLENE’S WEDDING – DOWNLOAD A TRACK FROM THE FORTHCOMING ALBUM

Heartbreak, working shitty jobs to survive and the loneliness of public transport in a city, Craig Dermody knows no other way than heart-on-sleeve. Hailing from Australia but now living in New York, Dermody’s debut album under the moniker Scott and Charlene’s Wedding is due for release on Critical Heights in November. ‘Para Vista Social Club’ […]
TOKOLOSH is the coming together of a collection of Manchester musicians, Christian and Nicky Madden and Richard Young from The Earlies, Nathan Sudders from The Whip and Liam Frost. Liam, who is the band’s sole lyricist, describes the lyrical content of the songs as “a slant on the desperate and obsessive nature of love and […]

LISTEN: TOKOLOSH – DEBUT SINGLE ‘THE HOLLOW/TOKOHORSE’

VIDEO: GREAT PAGANS ‘TEENAGE SILHOUETTES’

Great Pagans are the third act to release on Anti-Ghost Moon Ray Records, the Brighton DIY Label/Collective that put out Gazelle Twin’s critically acclaimed debut ‘The Entire City’ and Bernholz’s leftfield take on Madonna’s Material Girl’. It’s a label with a very carefully selected, small but perfectly formed roster. Great Pagans are the label’s band […]
Breton have announced the release of a brand new single ‘Population Density’, due for release on 5th November 2012 on FatCat Records. Recorded between festivals over the summer at the band’s creative HQ The Lab, the band road tested it for the first time at the Route Du Rock festival in France in front of […]

NEWS: BRETON – NEW SINGLE + HEAR BUSY P REMIX OF ‘GOVERNING CORRECTLY’