The 25 year old Greek/Welsh singer-songwriter has been very busy over the past few months working on the follow up to her critically-acclaimed debut album The Family Jewels. She’s also been touring the USA with Katy Perry. And now Marina has joined forces with pop-producing duo Stargate to release the end of summer track ‘Radioactive’. […]
Hello Sadness is the imminent fourth studio album from Los Campesinos!, recorded earlier this year in Girona, Spain. Hello Sadness is ten songs of love, loss and heartbreak nail-gunned to a back- drop of broken, tangled bodies, creeping, dead-eyed animals, suffocating, looming shadows and World Cup exits. It is an honest, bare-bones documentation of breaking […]
With her debut album now set for an early 2012 release on Mute, Newcastle psychedelic pop Artist Beth Jeans Houghton and her band The Hooves Of Destiny will be warming up for the rest of the year with a set of live dates and a very special, non-album release. The first fruits from the album, […]
– FREE DOWNLOAD – Having both featured on Entrepreneurs ‘Fuck Tactics’ earlier this year, GhostPoet now turns his attention directly to FOE, with his remix for new single ‘Deep Water Heart Breaker’. Applying the same low-fi minimalist style which earned him a nomination for this year’s Mercury Awards, GP takes the song somewhere far less noisy than […]
Over the past year, Caveman have made an impact with their attention grabbing live shows around New York and on tours with The War on Drugs and Here We Go Magic. Caveman‘s 10 song debut album ‘Coco Beware’ was produced by Nick Stumpf (French Kicks) and shows front man Matt Iwanusa’s ability to craft melodies […]
After a single, an EP and a couple of online tracks, London duo Jeremy Warmsley and Elizabeth Sankey – better known as Summer Camp – are finally unveiling their deliciously idiosyncratic, gloriously kaleidoscopic vision of pop with their debut full length “Welcome to Condale”, released on their own Apricot Recording Company imprint, in conjunction with […]
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 […]
GIG GUIDE
Our gig guide is handpicked and every act has been listened to before making it onto the list.
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ALBUM REVIEW - SCRITTI POLITTI: SONGS TO REMEMBER
LIVE REVIEW - LEON THOMAS: MANCHESTER ACADEMY - 27/03/2026
ALBUM REVIEW - THE ACADEMY IS... : ALMOST THERE
ALBUM REVIEW - SCOUTING FOR GIRLS: THESE ARE THE GOOD DAYS
ALBUM ROUNDUP WEEK ENDING 27 MARCH 2026
ALBUM REVIEW - BHAJAN BHOY: MEDITATIONS
BOOK REVIEW: MARTIN ASTON - FACING THE OTHER WAY: THE STORY OF 4AD
INTERVIEW - BCUC
ALBUM REVIEW - BCUC: THE ROAD IS NEVER EASY
ALBUM REVIEW - KILLERSTAR: THE AFTERGLOW
