NEWS: VULKANO – ANNOUNCE DEBUT ALBUM ‘LIVE WILD DIE FREE’ + ‘VISION TRICKS’ VIDEO

Vulkano are an explosive new duo pushing punk forward in their own charming way. With a passion for astrology, the paranormal and nature, healing stones, tropical landscapes, mythology and mountains, Vulkano are made up of the constantly headbanging Lisa Pyk-Wirström(keyboards/percussion) and the tour de force, the hissing feline Cissi Efraimsson (drums/lead vocals). Vulkano’s debut album will be released on February 3rd 2014 through Vulkano Music. […]
It’s time that the tale was told… Richard Boon is featuring in a forthcoming live, on stage in conversation with Dave Haslam at Gorilla, Manchester on Thursday 13 February 2014 (6.45pm for 7.30pm). Richard Boon isn’t just an important eye-witness to Manchester’s music scene, but also a major player and an influential figure, with the […]

NEWS: STORIES FROM INSIDE MANCHESTER’S PUNK/POST-PUNK SCENE (FREE EVENT)

NEWS: SCRAPS – NEW LP ‘ELECTRIC OCEAN’ + LISTEN TO ‘PROJECTIONS’

This coming of age record for solo synth songstress Scraps (aka Brisbane’s Laura Hill), glides through the ghosts of our electro-pop heroes with a collection of infectiously catchy outer-space pop songs.  With a slither of Stereolab, a sprinking of Peaking Lights, this is a Julee Cruise meets Julia Holter sonic rendezvous engulfed in the bleepy, cosmic […]
Firstly, Girl Band does not contain any girls. They are a four piece in their late teens / early 20’s from Dublin, wet behind the ears, and they play music that does not fit comfortably under one genre. Somewhere between Pissed Jeans, !!!, Modern Lovers, Shellac and Liars, they somehow sound like all and none […]

NEWS: GIRL BAND – PREMIERE NEW SIX MINUTE SINGLE, ‘LAWMAN’

NEWS: GOLDEN GLOW – NEW EP ‘BEAUTY / DUTY’ + VIDEO FOR ‘THE SCENE’

Half Mauritian on his mother’s side and son of a British father of Trinidadian origin, Pierre was born in London, brought up on the Wirral and moved to Manchester, aged 18. Now, 12 years on he has very recently moved back to London – the place of his birth. In Manchester, Pierre first established himself […]
David Lynch’s ‘The Big Dream’, one of the year’s most strikingly singular and idiosyncratic records, is getting a glorious deluxe reissue from Sunday Best. Sitting alongside brand new tracks and previously unreleased instrumental versions are a slew of stunning remixes from the varied likes of Bastille, Hot Since 82, Venetian Snares and Bjorn Yttling, which […]

NEWS: DAVID LYNCH – ‘THE BIG DREAM’ RE-ISSUED AND REMIXED

NEWS: CASIMER & CASIMIR – ‘O SWEET JOE PYE’ VIDEO

Casimer & Casimir have unveiled the video for new single, ‘O Sweet Joe Pye’, directed by Nautico, and also filmed by the band themselves in their hometown of Detroit, lending a homemade feel to the sweeping city shots and abandoned buildings. Casimer&Casimir are an American musical duo, who are uncle and nephew, that sprung from the Spring of 2012. […]
TOY, who released their second album, Join The Dots, on Heavenly Recordings on in December 2013, have announced details of a U.K. tour in February 2014. This includes their biggest U.K. show to date, at London’s Shepherd’s Bush Empire in April. FEBRUARY 2014 18th Brighton – The Old Market 19th Bristol – Thekla 20th Southampton […]

NEWS: TOY – UK TOUR IN FEB

NEWS: CYMBALS – SHARE NEW SONG ‘WINTER ’98’

Cymbals have kindly shared the opening track from their new album The Age Of Fracture, due 27th Jan 2014 on Tough Love Records.   A few chords of ‘Winter 98’ were first heard closing the short film with which Cymbals first announced The Age Of Fracture. The film, in keeping with the literary inspiration running […]
Yuck are excited to unveil the video for new single ‘Lose My Breath’, directed by Michael Reich and Anthony Baldino,  taken from their critically acclaimed sophomore LP ‘Glow & Behold’.  Once again displaying their innate knack at writing an instant, pristine pop hook,  ‘Lose My Breath’ is a grandly melodic album highlight which now comes […]

NEWS: YUCK – ‘LOSE MY BREATH’ VIDEO + HEADLINE LONDON SHOW