NEWS: CASIOKIDS – FREE DOWNLOADS ‘OLYMPISKE LEKER’, VIDEO & COMPETITION

Ahead of their performance at Standon Calling Festival next weekend, Casiokids are giving away a free Olympic Games themed track & asking fans to join in their own twitter version of the Olympics, #casiolympics! “Behind the commercials, the celebrity focus, logistical stress and economic issues there is something quite beautiful about the concept of the […]
There comes a time when most music lovers will claim to have heard it all before. Of course, the battle against jaded apathy is constant, and must be fought on all fronts. However, unctuous press releases try hard to extol the virtues of their offering, pitching it as the Third Coming and a cure for […]

ALBUM: MOEBIUS + TIETCHENS

LIVE: SAVAGES – 24/07/2012

– The Deaf Institute, Manchester – The blow of missing the first two local Savages gigs this year – in a cage in a bunker in Salford and at Islington Mill in June – has been eased now that I can witness ‘everyones favourite new band’, in my favourite venue. Parma Violets are the main support, I saw them at […]
The pioneers of booty shaking, reggae fuelled, dancefoor smashers; Major Lazer, rope in the talents of Amber Coffman from Dirty Projectors in their latest release; “Get Free”. A much more downtempo outing than their previous material but by no means lacking in quality. The track kicks back at a dub-paced flow with light smatterings of […]

SINGLE: MAJOR LAZER – ‘GET FREE’

Single Review: Richard Hawley – Down In The Woods

It’s been 3 years since Sheffieldite, Richard Hawley, released an album. Even though he teased fans with guest vocals on an Arctic Moneys track earlier this year, Hawley returns with his punchy, rock ‘n’ roll fuelled 7th album, Standing On The Sky’s Edge. And fuelled with Rock ‘n’ Roll it certainly is. ‘Down In The Woods’, […]
As one of the showcasing artists at this year’s SXSW festival, a great deal of attention has been thrown Electric Guest’s way. In May, I saw Electric Guest perform to a sparse crowd during Liverpool Sound City and it’s their newest single, ‘Awake’, that has the potential to rouse the music aficionados and create a […]

SINGLE REVIEW: Electric Guest – Awake

Album Review: Laetitia Sadlier – Silencio

Laetitia Sadlier, erstwhile singer with 90s influential experimental krautrock pop band Stereolab and main member of Stereolab side project Monade, follows up her debut solo album, The Trip, with her second album for Drag City, Silencio. On first listen, Silencio immediately comes across as a more fleshed out sound with more nuanced textures than The […]
– ACADEMY 3, MANCHESTER – There are few more cherished moments in a band’s career – the breakthrough song has found a handle on a niche audience, the underground buzz has begun to filter out, the debut album will drop in less than a month. The band rock into town, and play upstairs in the attic of […]

LIVE: OF MONSTERS AND MEN – 11/07/2012

NEWS: THEE OH SEES – DOWNLOAD ‘LUPINE DOMINUS’ + NEW LP DETAILS

What’s the first thing that comes to mind when someone mentions Thee Oh Sees? Probably their riot-sparking live show, right? Visions of a guitar-chewing, speaker-smothering, tongue-wagging John Dwyer careening across your cranium, chased by a wild-eyed wrecking crew that drives every last hook home like it’s a nail in the coffin of what you thought […]
Autobahn 666 is the Opening track from the Debut LP “1612 Underture” by THE ECCENTRONIC RESEARCH COUNCIL (FT Cult electronic outsider artists Adrian Flanagan & Dean Honer from Sheffield’s Chanteuse and the Crippled Claw/Kings Have Long Arms and I Monster/all Seeing I and the Actress/Lancashire’s very own Angel of the North, Miss Maxine Peake. The […]

VIDEO: THE ECCENTRONIC RESEARCH COUNCIL (FEAT. MAXINE PEAKE ) – ‘AUTOBAHN 666’