NEWS: BEACONS FESTIVAL – LINE UP AND STAGE TIMES

Beacons Festival is just weeks away. The cutting-edge music and arts festival will once again be taking place in the picturesque setting of the Funkirk Estate in Skipton this August. Beacons Festival are pleased to announce the full timetable (see below). The Thursday night entertainment has been announced as a comedy and film night with […]
Last year, The Wave Pictures spent 6 weeks driving around America in a small van with Allo Darlin’. The result of this trip is their fifth studio album – the double album ‘City Forgiveness’ released via Moshi Moshi on October 21st.“We visited Hank Williams’ house and Billy The Kid’s grave, watched the Golden Gate bridge […]

NEWS: THE WAVE PICTURES – NEW ALBUM ‘CITY FORGIVENESS’

NEWS: SPECIAL SCREENING OF NORTHERN SOUL FILM ‘THE WHEEL’

On Thursday 25th July, Cinebox at Bolton’s Brass Cat pub will play host to one of the last public screenings of the film  ‘The Wheel’. ‘The Wheel’  tells the story of the iconic ‘Twisted Wheel’ and the birth of the Manchester Northern Soul scene, mixing old footage from the clubs with interviews with fans and […]
Brooklyn, NY’s Au Revoir Simone will release their first album in four years, ‘Move in Spectrums’ on September 23rd through Moshi Moshi. Produced by Violens’ Jorge Elbrecht, ‘Move in Spectrums’ is the follow up to 2009’s critically acclaimed and the trio’s most successful record yet, ‘Still Night, Still Light’. Following the release of their three well-loved albums, […]

NEWS: AU REVOIR SIMONE – NEW LP ‘MOVE IN SPECTRUMS’

NEWS: SCOTT & CHARLENE’S WEDDING ANNIVERSARY – LISTEN TO ‘LESBIAN WIFE’

Erinsborough’s most famous couple marked their 26th Wedding Anniversary this week and to celebrate, their Aussie namesakes Scott & Charlene’s Wedding reveal a new track from their forthcoming album ‘Any Port in A Storm’, due out on Fire Records on 22 July. Appropriately titled ‘Lesbian Wife’, the song encapsulates Craig Dermody’s nonchalant slacker charm, brimming […]
Franco-Scottish-Bolivian group Jacques Caramac & The Sweet Generation release their new single the Euro-Lou Reed glam pop racket that is ‘Snowballs’ backed with ‘Take It Where You Find It’ replete with its Johnny Thunders tribute solo – believed to be the only rock’n’roll song to mention Battenberg cake. The album will be released in October and you can […]

NEWS: JACQUES CARAMAC AND THE SWEET GENERATION – ‘SNOWBALLS’ VIDEO

NEWS: MOON DUO – AUGUST TOUR DATES + HEAR NEW TRACK ‘HIGH OVER BLUE’

The hypnotic-psych duo of Ripley Johnson (Wooden Ships) and Sanae Yamada, MOON DUO, return to the UK next week for a London show & performance at Latitude’s i-Arena stage on Sunday. They have also return for a string of dates around appearances at Green Man & Beacons Festivals next month. To celebrate the news, have a […]
The coming together of Purity Ring and Jon Hopkins is rooted in a longstanding mutual admiration and creative partnership between both artists: Hopkins previously mixed the song ‘Saltkin’ on Purity Ring’s LP Shrines. In turn, Purity Ring’s Megan James has added vocals to Hopkins’ ‘Breathe This Air’ off his fantastic new album Immunity. The new […]

LISTEN: PURITY RING’S ‘AMENAMY’ REMIXED BY JON HOPKINS

NEWS: ‘YES, IT’S TRUE’ THE NEW ALBUM BY THE POLYPHONIC SPREE + VIDEO

‘Yes, It’s True’. The Polyphonic Spree return to the UK with a new album and tour dates this summer. The band who captured the imagination of thousands from their first notes at David Bowie’s Meltdown in 2002 and went on to take hearts and minds at Glastonbury and on a succession of UK tours have […]
Manchester based singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Marc Rigelsford, better known as Magic Arm, gives new meaning to the phrase ‘work from home’. Rigelsford recently released his psychedelic sophomore LP, ‘Images Rolling’, which like his first album was recorded in the vast part-derelict three-storey house he was living in. Unlike his first effort however, ‘Images Rolling’ departs from […]

NEWS: MAGIC ARM – NEW SINGLE ‘WARNING SIGN’ + VIDEO