Marika Hackman’s freshly released, raucous new album, I’m Not Your Man (AMF Records and Sub Pop (US)), is sure to erase any falsehood of Marika as some fey folkie. Marika 2:0 is uncompromising, uninhibited, and shamelessly free. I’m Not Your Man is not afraid to call out the big questions around femininity, sexual identity, millennial ennui, the pressures of living in […]
With under a month to go until the release of Mac DeMarco’s mid-twenties masterwork, This Old Dog, Mac offers up another taste of what’s to come with ‘On The Level’. Following the more acoustic-minded ‘This Old Dog’ and ‘My Old Man’, Mac provides us with another contemplative number, giving a further glimpse into his relationships […]
Mac DeMarco will release This Old Dog, his third album and first full-length since 2014’s Salad Days, on Friday 5th May 2017 via Captured Tracks. Following the release of lead singles, ‘My Old Man’ and ‘This Old Dog’; a pair of songs that immediately show a new sonic direction and the personal nature of the […]
North London three-piece Girl Ray share their new video for ‘Stupid Things’. Starring the band themselves and shot over the course of a weekend in Cambridge, director Alex Cantouris took inspiration from films such as Atonement and The Other Boleyn Girl. Girl Ray’s Poppy Hankin said of the video:”We’d always thought a period drama influenced […]
Julia Jacklin has shared a new video for ‘Coming of Age’, a track taken from her critically acclaimed debut album, Don’t Let The Kids Win, out now on Transgressive. View the video below. A resolve to accept the passing of time, the snappy fuzz of ‘Coming of Age’ perfectly encapsulates the mood of Julia’s debut. […]
Sufjan Stevens will play his first ever UK festival show when he headlines End of the Road Festival in September. The songwriter will play the event, which is held at Larmer Tree Gardens in Wiltshire, on Saturday, September 5. He joins the previously announced headliners Tame Impala, who are currently readying their third album and […]
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Between September 2011 and March 2020 we provided a handpicked gig guide every month without fail. It's painful for us that there are currently no gigs to recommend. We hope gigs will return soon to bring you new recommendations, but if you want to reminisce you can still see nine years worth of old gig guides.
