Having sustained my first ever moshpit injury at a Sonic Youth gig in the early 90’s at The Reading Festival, involving someone else’s Doc Marten boot, squelchy mud and my head, to seeing their last ever gig in Manchester, it’s fair to say Kim Gordon’s former band, Sonic Youth, have occupied a large portion of […]
The fact that Yo La Tengo have existed for over thirty years, with a consistently strong but still relatively underground appeal, could be one of the reasons behind the title of their fifteenth album. Not that Yo La Tengo are in anyway riotous, well at least not in an obvious way. Theirs is a slower, […]
Belle and Sebastian have always produced the kind of music which is delicate on the eardrums, yet with a feisty rock n roll streak tearing through its core. They’re one of those bands who you think you’ve got figured out, then they go off and do something unexpected. Live, their gigs transform into a communal […]
Courtney Barnett and Kurt Vile have revealed that they have completed a collaboration album for release later this year. In support of this they will be leading an all-star band on a once-in-a-lifetime tour of North America this autumn. Kurt Vile said of the collaboration: “It started out as, maybe we’ll do a split 7″ […]
Savages have unveiled the first glimpse of their new album Adore Life which will be released on January 22nd 2016 on Matador Records. Listen to the new track below: Savages – European Tour Dates includes a date at Manchester’s Albert Hall November 30 – Berlin, DE – Berghain Kantine – Tickets December 1 – Paris, […]
Within the first 30 seconds of b’lieve I’m goin down… we are once again fully acquainted with the languid, finger-pickin-on-the-ranch, meandering tendencies of Philadelphia’s Kurt Vile. After a brief spell as member of The War on Drugs, he has been releasing solo albums for seven years, peaking commercially with 2011’s Smoke Ring for My Halo and […]
Misissippi psych stomper ‘Pretty Pimpin’ is the lead track from the b’lieve I’m going down… album, Vile’s hotly anticipated fifth. It catches him in fine form but also in contemplative mood, and in the midst of an identity crisis. The whole ensemble reads like the rueful dregs of a drunken weekend, swilling at the bottom of […]
‘Feel My Pain’ is the new song from Kurt Vile’s forthcoming 12″ and digital EP on Matador Records ‘it’s a big world out there (and i am scared)’, with the new deluxe edition of Wakin On A Pretty Daze adding the EP as bonus content for the second CD and digital download. One of seven new […]
Ever-evolving British trio Esben and the Witch have to announced a new six-track remix EP, complementing their album of January 2013, ‘Wash the Sins Not Only the Face’. A brave and bold statement of intent, embracing new stylistic directions and a developed immediacy while maintaining the band’s signature atmospheres, Wash the Sins… was a critical […]
Majical Cloudz is the voice of Montreal songwriter Devon Welsh exploring the negative space within electronic music, using his powerful vocals to say ‘no’ to the infinite possibilities digital instruments provide and instead choosing to focus his attention inwardly. Joined by Matthew Otto to collaboratively produce and perform his songs, the 2012 debut album II […]
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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.
