LIVE: PWR BTTM – 11/04/2017

– DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – “Why does the UK hate warm water?” seems like such a perfectly phrased question about one of the more bonkers aspects of British society. And PWR BTTM’s first record, Ugly Cherries, is such a delectable listen, and my anticipation of a good time at Deaf tonight so high anyway, that […]
Following last year’s highly praised album House In The Tall Grass, Tokyo’s Kikagaku Moyo have announced plans for a new EP ‘Stone Garden’, and summer European live dates. ‘Stone Garden EP’ will be released on vinyl & digital on Friday 21st April via the record label the band run, Guruguru Brain. They have also just […]

KIKAGAKU MOYO ANNOUNCE ‘STONE GARDEN EP’ & SUMMER TOUR DATES

NEW ALBUM ‘TIME IS A RIDDLE’ AND HEADLINE TOUR FOR LUKE SITAL-SINGH

Luke Sital-Singh has announced details of his new album Time Is A Riddle, to be released Friday 12th May 2017 on Raygun Records / Red Essential. The follow-up to his 2014 debut The Fire Inside, Time Is A Riddle was recorded in Attica Audio studio in Donegal with producer Tommy McLaughlin (Villagers). McLaughlin recruited a […]
– DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – Dylan Baldi and his band have one setting: LOUD. That setting is taken to the nth degree tonight at the Deaf Institute, as Cloud Nothings arrive in Manchester to support their stellar new album Life Without Sound (insert joke about my life without sound after this deafening gig etc). This […]

LIVE: CLOUD NOTHINGS – 18/03/2017

LIVE: WILD CHILD / MAYBE FRANK – 11/03/2017

– DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – Being a relatively new Wild Child listener, I’m hoping for bouncy beats and down-to-earth prosaic lyrics about everyday life, provided by the way of good-humoured derision. The teasing nature of the singing duo of Wild Child is amusing to listen to, but live I’m not entirely sure what I’m in […]
Don’t miss the double bill of some America’s most inventive musicians this March 2017 as Tyondai Braxton, and Dawn of Midi tour the UK. The tour kicks off at KOKO, London with a special four artist bill, including Nosaj Thing, and Daniel Lanois (solo), as part of Convergence 2017. The continuation from that for the […]

TYONDAI BRAXTON + DAWN OF MIDI COME TO MANCHESTER THIS MARCH ON THEIR DOUBLE-BILL UK TOUR

LIVE: WILD NOTHING / HER’S – 26/02/2017

– DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – To the left of me stands an obese, pissed, ageing, fifty-something man exclaiming “we’ve won the cup”, whilst spilling his drink all over the sobbing teenage girls in front of him. To the right stands a rawboned blond-haired middle class student, draped in a baggy coral shirt and an inside-out […]
– DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – Pinegrove make genuinely warm music that exposes all our fallibilities and good intentions. Their music is wracked with nostalgia, recalling late nights, old friends and drunken mistakes. The six-piece alt country band were one of the breakthrough acts of last year, with their album Cardinal featuring on numerous end-of-year lists […]

LIVE: PINEGROVE – 23/02/2017

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 […]
– DEAF INSTITUTE, MANCHESTER – Back in 2010, Young Legionnaire were quite a promising prospect. They had big support slots booked, a huge sounding debut album in the bag and an ever-growing following that were transfixed by their heartfelt brand of alt rock. Sadly, things didn’t really take off the way in which many initially […]

LIVE: YOUNG LEGIONNAIRE – 14/02/2017