Nadine Shah has revealed the video for her forthcoming single ‘Runaway’, due out 16 September. An outstanding album cut, its momentous brooding rhythm drive Nadine’s powerhouse vocals forward, weaving a bitter tale of adultery as they go. The footage, directed by Matt Cummins, shows the singer-songwriters striding through an urban landscape, trailing an endless length […]
Cate Le Bon returns this Autumn with ‘Mug Museum’, perhaps her most beguiling and complete song cycle to date, which will be released 11th November on Turnstile. Having finished live commitments for CYRK towards the end of 2012, Le Bon returned to Wales to write the songs that would become Mug Musem. The album is informed by a period of taking […]
A free, outdoor mini music festival will take place at Brownsfield Mill on Port Street, in Manchester’s Piccadilly Basin on Saturday 7 and Sunday 8 September. The line-up includes DJ sets from XFM DJs Clint Boon and Gareth Brooks and performances from some of the city’s most talented unsigned bands along with a bar hosted […]
With the unprecedented level of demand for tickets resulting in the PZYK 0001 7” record selling out, LIVERPOOL INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL OF PSYCHEDELIA announce the second release from their new imprint label PZYK – a mixtape cassette PZYK 0002 featuring artists from this year’s bill. The cassette will be released on Cassette Store Day on 7th September. […]
Manchester four-piece PINS have unveiled a brand new song from their Bella Union-released debut album Girls Like Us. A lithe two and a half minutes, the echoing monotones of ‘Lost Lost Lost’ induce chills like a PJ Harvey mantra. The song perfectly showcases the stark, analogue sound of the album, and the MP3 has been made […]
Palma Violets complete their amazing year with a massive 14 date headline UK tour. Since the release their debut album 180’ back in February, the London four-piece have toured America, supported the likes of Alabama Shakes, Django Django and Savages, and appeared on Jools Holland and Late Night with Jimmy Kimmel. Plus they received accolades […]
To celebrate this years oncoming performance from Chic ft Nile Rodgers, Festival No.6 have commissioned the Brythoniaid Male Voice Choir to record an incredible, unique version of ‘Good Times’ by Chic. Originally produced for their album ‘Risqué’, ‘Good Times’ reached #1 in the US and #5 in the UK charts and is one of the […]
Big Deal have filled a busy summer with the release of their acclaimed second album June Gloom. The band continue to conquer 2013 with the announcement of a headline tour in November, which follows the Norwich Sound & Vision festival and dates with Local Natives in October. To coincide with what will be an unmissable […]
Crystal Stilts release a new track ‘Future Folklore” which comes from their new album ‘Nature Noir’ . Nature Noir sees The Stilts honing in on their various affinities at once. Simulcast from different pools of the past, bridging and expanding their intensive tastes in Soul, Folk, Psych, Country, Proto-punk and onward, it’s apparent that their new formulary […]
With their second LP ‘Glow & Behold’, Yuck demonstrate an impressive step forward in their musical oeuvre, creating an album that is as mature, ruminative and elegiac as it is irresistible, immediate and chest burstingly anthemic. As critically acclaimed and globally adored as their eponymous first album was, listeners are sure to be enchanted by […]
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ALBUM REVIEW - MARGARET GLASPY: I AM BOTH
ALBUM REVIEW - ARIANA GRANDE: PETAL
ALBUM REVIEW - DEEP PURPLE: SPLAT!
GIG GUIDE - AUGUST 2026
ALBUM REVIEW - LUCIA & THE BEST BOYS: PICKING PETALS
ALBUM ROUND WEEK ENDING 31 JULY 2026
ALBUM REVIEW - MAYA ONGAKU: NOTHING SPACE MUSIC
ALBUM REVIEW - DURUTTI COLUMN: RENASCENT
ALBUM REVIEW - LOATHE: A STRANGER TO YOU
ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 24 JULY 2026
