LIVE: TELEMAN – 26/02/2017

– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – I am excited to be standing with those lucky enough to land tickets for what is another sold out show on Teleman’s UK tour as they walk onto the Gorilla stage.  They have garnered quite the following from their two well received and critically acclaimed albums over the past few years and […]
The Lemon Twigs share their new video for ‘I Wanna Prove To You’. Watch the video below. The Lemon Twigs are teenage brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario from Long Island, NY. Check out their debut album, Do Hollywood, out now, which was recorded in Los Angeles with Foxygen’s Jonathan Rado. Having recently performed on The […]

THE LEMON TWIGS POKE US WITH ‘I WANNA PROVE TO YOU’ VIDEO BEFORE UK TOUR NEXT MONTH

METHYL ETHEL RELEASE NEW SINGLE ‘L’HEURE DES SORCIÈRES’ AHEAD OF UK & EUROPEAN TOUR AND ALBUM RELEASE

Jake Webb’s Methyl Ethel have released a new song, ‘L’Heure des Sorcières’ from their forthcoming album, Everything Is Forgotten, due for release on Friday 3rd March 2017. French for ‘The Witches’ Hour’, the track takes a darker tone from its predecessors ‘Ubu’ and ‘No. 28’. Hear the single in full below. The second album from […]
2016 proved to be a breakout year for Seattle wunderkind Will Toledo. Under the aegis of Car Seat Headrest, he signed to Matador and promptly released Teens Of Denial, which went on to become one of the most acclaimed albums of the year, with Uncut, Crack, Loud and Quiet, Time Out and Clash, among others, […]

CAR SEAT HEADREST ANNOUNCE UK SUMMER TOUR DATES

LIVE: TOM HICKOX – 10/02/2017

– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – Support slots are a funny thing. Important in the development of any musician’s career, and often arriving with the inherited prestige of the headline artist. When I ask Tom Hickox, London singer-songwriter, about the prospect of supporting former Teardrop Explodes frontman and all-round eccentric Julian Cope, his face lights up. “An […]
– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – To say I am excited for tonight is an understatement – I am thrilled to be going to watch Kate Nash at Gorilla in Manchester. Having not released any new material for some time, or an album in an even longer time, to see Kate Nash shimmy on stage in full length […]

LIVE: KATE NASH – 07/02/2017

LIVE: THE HOTELIER – 23/01/2017

– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – I’m pretty overjoyed that The Hotelier is my first gig of 2017, even on a Monday night (seriously, Monday night gigs should be banned…). The start of 2017 has been tainted by the swearing in of that monster in America, and even the heart swelling scenes of the millions joining in […]
– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – Before us is an outfit of matching suits, and in the air a requisite bass riff with some dandy horns. The back wall of Gorilla is newly decked out, so says my plus one. It’s a nearly all-white family providing the instrumentals – The Expressions – with a DJ occasionally poking […]

LIVE: LEE FIELDS & THE EXPRESSIONS – 13/01/2017

THE LEMON TWIGS ANNOUNCE 2017 TOUR DATES

Having just finished their first European tour, The Lemon Twigs of Long Island are set to return to the continent in the Spring for another round of live dates. The brothers Brian and Michael D’Addario will be joined onstage by live band members Megan Zeankowski (bass) and Danny Ayala (keyboards). Tickets for all shows (excluding London) go on sale […]
– GULLIVERS, MANCHESTER – The last time I saw Jordan Lee, aka Mutual Benefit, was a couple of years back at the Deaf Institute, where he was coming off the back of his much lauded and much loved debut Love’s Crushing Diamond, and it was wonderful. Lee was timid and shy, but his gloriously understated […]

LIVE: MUTUAL BENEFIT – 22/11/2016