INTERVIEW: OH BABY – MANCHESTER/LONDON ELECTRO DUO WITH NEW ALBUM INSPIRED BY OMD, GARY NUMAN, HUMAN LEAGUE BUT WITH A MODERN TWIST ALL OF THEIR OWN

You hear about bands who have met at work, college, school etc, but not so much ones who met at a distant relatives funeral! That’s how Rick and Jen, distant cousins with musical aspirations, first began the electro powerhouse that would become Oh Baby. Now with the brilliant new album ‘Hey Genius’ out, we caught […]

ALBUM REVIEW: PHILIP TABANE – THE INDIGENOUS AFRO-JAZZ SOUNDS OF PHILIP TABANE AND HIS MALOMBO JAZZMAN

Is the association of jazz with heroin a fairly universal thing or have I inherited this unrealistic stereotype based on mid-20th-century cinema’s lazy caricaturing of counter-culture and “hippy music”? It would seem there is more “substance” to it, both in the supremely talented opiate-using US jazz maestros Miles Davis and Charlie Parker and in a […]

GIG GUIDE

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.

Breathless

ALBUM PREMIERE: BREATHLESS – BETWEEN HAPPINESS AND HEARTACHE DELUXE 30TH ANNIVERSARY REISSUE + Q&A WITH ARI NEUFELD

We’re delighted to present the premiere of the deluxe 30th Anniversary reissue of acclaimed Breathless album ‘Between Happiness And Heartache’. Originally released in 1991, this 30th Anniversary Deluxe Edition is pressed on Heartache Pink Vinyl. Tenor Vossa & TV Records · Breathless Between Happiness And Heartache 2021 Deluxe Reissue on Heartache Pink Vinyl Q & […]

LIVE REVIEW: DAMON ALBARN – MANCHESTER CENTRAL: MANCHESTER INTERNATIONAL FESTIVAL

My first gig in eighteen months may have been in a socially distanced seated event, but blimey did it feel great to watch a live performance again. Every two years Manchester International Festival rolls around, and brings with it a feast of unique gigs, but none of us could have predicted just how unusual these […]
Right To Roam Festival

INTERVIEW: RIGHT TO ROAM FESTIVAL’S IVAN CROMPTON

As live music begins to emerge from its enforced hiatus, a multi-venue festival in Bolton is hoping to help kick-start a return of the marvels we’ve all been missing so dearly. To find out more we caught up with one of the organisers of the event, Ivan Crompton. Right to Roam is a brand new […]

A QUICK CATCH UP WITH HUNNYBEES

Non-Ferrous Types of Metal Titles… of Quality

INTERVIEW: FRANCIS LUNG

Francis Lung creates a timeless blend of psychedelic pop, which recalls the epic song writing of Elliott Smith, Harry Nilsson and Brian Wilson infused with a playful experimental edge, his new album ‘Miracle’ is bursting with melodies which take your ears to unexpected places. Formerly the bassist in WuLyf, Francis Lung is the moniker of  […]
Clear Vinyl

A QUICK CATCH UP WITH CLEAR VINYL

Music is often talked about as a great form of therapy, whether that be listening to it or creating it, there is a lot to be taken from a song that can hit you lyrically where you live. Clear Vinyl, an up and coming Sheffield band have this quality in spades, and their new single […]

INTERVIEW: THE TELESCOPES

LISSIE IS ON A VOYAGE OF REDISCOVERY SHARING THE PREVIOUSLY UNRELEASED SONG ‘ALL BE OKAY’

CHET FAKER GETS THE ROLLER BLADES OUT ON HIS LATEST SINGLE’S VIDEO TO MAKE PEOPLE ‘FEEL GOOD’

NICK WILSON PREVIEWS FORTHCOMING ‘NOW I’M FALLING’ ALBUM WITH LATEST SINGLE ‘YOURS TO TAKE’

THE SHADRACKS UNVEIL NEW SINGLE ‘YOU CAN’T LOSE’

ALBUM REVIEW: THE MIGHTY MIGHTY BOSSTONES – WHEN GOD WAS GREAT

The sun is shining, it feels like summer, we’re in the mood… what better music to put on than some ska? No, sorry, that was a rhetorical question. The answer is “Nothing, ska is easy summertime tunes that remind you of being young in the late 90’s and it should be piped into the world […]

HARTLEPOOL INDIE-POP TRIO MT. MISERY SHARE VIDEO FOR ‘TAKEN BY THE TIDE’

PUBLIC SERVICE BROADCASTING ANNOUNCE THEIR NEW ALBUM BRIGHT MAGIC AND SHARE NEW SINGLE/VIDEO ‘PEOPLE, LET’S DANCE’ FT. EERA

RED RIBBON REVEALS NEWLY RELEASED ALBUM TITLE TRACK ‘PLANET X’

RISING MIDLANDS INDIE-PUNKS THE NOVUS UNVEIL ‘CASTAWAY’

ALBUM REVIEW: ST VINCENT – DADDY’S HOME

Welcome back to the weird, wonderful, and downright enthralling world of St Vincent. St Vincent (aka Annie Clark) has been making music over the last two decades and growing in popularity and critical acclaim throughout six inventive records. Her 2017 record ‘Masseduction’ was her best yet, teaming up with the busiest man in pop music […]

INTERVIEW: CATHAL COUGHLAN

Cathal Coughlan has with a new album, the brilliant ‘Song of Co-Aklan’, his first in ten years. Seamlessly blending his lyrical prowess with fine indie melodies, the former Fatima Mansions and Microdisney man has returned with possibly his greatest work yet. We caught up with him to find out what’s behind the making of one […]

“Psychedelic” Titles That Happen To Be Of Quality

LONDON QUINTET SILVERTWIN RETURN WITH NEW TRACK ‘SAVIOUR’

DAS BEAT RELEASE FINAL SINGLE FROM DEBUT EP

‘PEAK BLEAK’ FOR LEEDS ART-ROCK OUTFIT MUSH WHO PURCHASE £100 EBOW TO RECORD THEIR LATEST TRACK

HOLLY HUMBERSTONE ANNOUNCES MANCHESTER YES HEADLINE FOR OCTOBER AND RELEASES ‘THE WALLS ARE WAY TOO THIN’

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