CIGARETTES AFTER SEX ANNOUNCE NEW ALBUM ALONGSIDE NEW SINGLE ‘APOCALYPSE’

Soon to embark on a sold-out UK tour Cigarettes After Sex have today announced the release of their much-anticipated self-titled debut album, Cigarettes After Sex, which will be available Friday 9th June 2017 via Partisan Records. Cigarettes After Sex frontman Greg Gonzalez had a clear vision for his band’s gorgeously cinematic debut album. After the […]
– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – It’s always a good vibe when a band you dig announce a tour with an equally excellent support, so tonight I excitedly make it down nice and early to see Indiana based three piece Cloakroom open up for instrumental mavericks Russian Circles. Cloakroom is a name I’ve heard a lot over […]

LIVE: RUSSIAN CIRCLES / CLOAKROOM – 20/03/2017

LIVE: HAMILTON LEITHAUSER – 10/03/2017

– GORILLA, MANCHESTER – When you think of the New York City indie rock scene, you instantly recall bands like The Strokes, LCD Soundsystem, Interpol and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs surfacing in the first knockings of the new millennium. Before that Sonic Youth, The Velvet Underground and Blondie pioneered the movement in The Big Apple. […]
Having recently unveiled details of their forthcoming album The Weather, Perth’s Pond have announced a UK & European tour, taking place this May and June 2017. The run of dates includes the band’s biggest UK headline show to date, taking place at London’s The O2 Forum on Friday 16th June 2017. The tour announcement follows […]

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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