As the year draws to a close, The Drums continue to stay busy, wrapping up a mammoth year of touring with sold out shows at London’s Shepherds Bush Empire and The Ritz in Manchester this past weekend in support of their new album Portamento. In addition to touring and making music, the band have continued […]
Fresh from an incredible performance in front of 3000 people at Transmusicales Festival last weekend, multimedia masterminds Breton announce their first UK headline shows. They will take place next March 2012 in support of their debut album ‘Other People’s Problems’, which will be released on Fat Cat Records. Dates are as follows: 28th March – […]
‘Maraqopa’ is Damien Jurado’s newest collaboration with producer Richard Swift, which drops us into a brutal and benevolent landscape. The bold strokes and new turns the pair made with 2010’s Saint Bartlett are taken even further. He throws open the gate on his oft insular dirges and allows them do some real wilding out in […]
London based electro/techno label-of-the-moment Bad Life is behind a new Manchester night ‘FREE RANGE’, which launches at THE ZOO on Friday 16th December 2011. Bad Life acts AUTOKRATZ, EVIL NINE & ATTAQUE are joined by local darling’s THE WHIP and DELPHIC for a Christmas do. The show will see THE WHIP mark the end of […]
Canvasback Music/Atlantic Records artists Grouplove have announced details of a UK headline tour for February 2012 which will shortly be followed by a set of European shows. The band will also release ‘Colours’ on 20 February 2012, the next single to be taken from their critically acclaimed debut album, Never Trust A Happy Song. The […]
Newly released album ‘Hollandaze’ is a grimy, gum-splattered ménage of surf-gaze, punk and lo-fi, cut from twanging reverb & fuzz heavy guitars, thick driving bass & drum machines and overdriven hammond organ. Based in Toronto, Odonis Odonis make killer hook-driven tunes that hark back to the classic ‘80s sounds of The Jesus & Mary Chain, […]
Building on a critically-acclaimed debut album, as well as support slots with the likes of Vessels, Gallops and Nedry, Manchester based math-progsters Cyril Snear have announced that for the second time this year they are to support Amplifier at Manchester’s Academy 3, on Sunday. Cyril Snear have already featured in Silent Radio’s Who Are Ya? section and are […]
Irish singer-songwriter Fionn Regan released his 3rd album, 100 Acres of Sycamore earlier this year and now he’s sharing a video of an acoustic rendition of ‘For A Nightingale’. 100 Acres of Sycamore is the young singer-songwriter’s most personal statement yet. You can get a taste of this by checking out the title track, which […]
Just a year after their eponymous debut, Cloud Nothings, the Cleveland, Ohio-based group fronted by Dylan Baldi are set to return with a new album, ‘Attack on Memory’ on February 6th, 2012. The album was produced by the king of noise rock, Steve Albini (Nirvana, Pixies, Manic Street Preachers, and PJ Harvey). The pairing has […]
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