This weekend sees Ramsbottom festival take place and we’ve stumbled across discounted tickets for what we think is the best of the three days. Saturday sees acts such as Guillemots, Badly Drawn Boy, Cherry Ghost, Young Knives, The Travelling Band, The Janice Graham Band play on the main stage with many other acts too (full […]
Howling Bells will release their new album on September 12th on Cooking Vinyl. Recorded in Las Vegas with The Killers’ Mark Stoermer producing, ‘The Loudest Engine’ will be preceded by a clutch of live shows, including a London date at the Electric Ballroom on September 15th. A raw, psychedelic third record, and the sequel to […]
Little Roy has been invited to play a live set at the In Bloom: The Nirvana Nevermind Exhibition, celebrating the music and history of the Seattle grunge luminaries in light of the 20th anniversary of Nevermind. This week saw the release of Little Roy’s full length LP Battle for Seattle, featuring adaptations of Nirvana classics […]
Since her first trip to the UK playing as EMA, when she wowed Scout Niblett’s audiences and entranced The Great Escape attendees so much so than an extra secret 3rd show had to be put in, Erika M Anderson has been keeping busy Stateside; writing and recording new material, undertaking a hugely successful US headline […]
The Manchester quartet will release ‘Stuck In This Ocean’ on the 5th September through Play It Again Sam. Produced by Doves/Cherry Ghost producer Dan Austin at Rockfield Studios, the album was aided by Doves’ ambient programmer Rebelski, and Editors’ guitarist Chris Urbanowicz. The album features the new Single ‘Algebra’ (out now) and the recent single, […]
Theme Park are excited to announce a number of UK dates beginning in September. The shows see the band play 3 dates for VICE, festival appearances and a tour support slot for Summer Camp amongst others. Their debut double A- side single ‘Wax’ / ‘A Mountain We Love’ was released on Monday 29th August. Both […]
WATERS, the new project from former Port O’Brien front man Van Pierszalowski, will release their debut single ‘For The One’ on September 12th on City Slang. The first track to be taken from the album ‘Out in the Light’ which is set for release on September 19th, ‘For The One’ was recently leaked online and […]
Secretly Canadian have announced that Exitmusic will issue their debut EP ‘From Silence’ exclusively through independent record stores on October 3, with a full retail release scheduled for November 7. Church and Palladino started writing together several years ago, when Church moved to New York following a year teaching English in Taiwan and India. “We […]
Josh T. Pearson announces the release of ‘Sorry with a Song’, on 3rd October. His debut solo album ‘Last Of The Country Gentlemen’ is a collection of seven songs drawn from the lessons of what he describes as “a rough year”, which was released in March to universal acclaim after a self imposed hiatus that […]
Surf pop harmonies, guitar jangles and old school rock ‘n’ roll rhythms all come together on Yeah Nothing; the debut album from Irish garage pop trio Squarehead. A meeting point somewhere between the melodies of The Beach Boys and punk of Portland’s The Wipers, the record is scheduled for release through the Richter Collective on […]
GIG GUIDE
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ALBUM REVIEW - MCKINLEY DIXON: MAGIC, ALIVE!
ALBUM REVIEW - WET LEG: MOISTURIZER
ALBUM REVIEW - BARRY CAN'T SWIM: LONER
ALBUM REVIEW - CORY HANSON: I LOVE PEOPLE
INTERVIEW - CORY HANSON
EP REVIEW - LEI HOPE: INERTIA
ALBUM REVIEW: MADE KUTI - CHAPTER 1: WHERE DOES HAPPINESS COME FROM?
SINGLE REVIEW - ALKALINE TRIO: OBLIVION
ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 18 JULY 2025
ALBUM REVIEW - BUSH: I BEAT LONELINESS
