Suuns

Rig Stars: Suuns

We’re a curious bunch here at Silent Radio and decided it was time to start scratching that itch, so we asked Suuns guitarist and singer Ben Shemie what his favourite piece of music making equipment is. This is what he told us:   What is it? Digitech vocalist 2. How long have you had it? […]
Beabadoobee Fake It Flowers

ALBUM REVIEW: BEABADOOBEE – FAKE IT FLOWERS

Rising star often gets thrown around a lot, but in the case of Beabadoobee, that title is more than well deserved. Bea Kristi is a 20-year-old singer-songwriter from London who has blown up the internet with viral hit “Coffee,” along with a series of successful EPs and a sample of her vocals being used on […]

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.

Sick Ducks

INTERVIEW: SICK DUCKS

One’s rightward vision is left temporarily enfeebled by misconstrued tomato (chilli), the situational table is laden with culinary utensils both clean and not, while boiled (9 minutes?) poultry-offerings linger within tarnished cardboard bespoke for their form and a sleeve bearing the late John Denver’s image gazes upwards at lighting courtesy of the accessible switch helping […]
This is the Kit

ALBUM REVIEW: THIS IS THE KIT – OFF OFF ON

I don’t trust people who say they like all types of music. That is a pretty, blanket statement. I like food but it doesn’t mean I like eating all food. There will inevitably be some music that I don’t want to listen to. However, I can see the merits of most music even if I […]
Twisted Ankle Album Cover

ALBUM REVIEW: TWISTED ANKLE

Twisted Ankle’s self-titled debut album is determined to wriggle its way out of any boxes you might want to put it in. Over the course of eleven songs many different musical avenues find themselves explored, though all of them are loud and dirty. Opening song ‘(All My Life I Wanted To Be A) Mortgage’ sets […]

INTERVIEW: REGENT

Titles of Quality from The Frostier Side of New Wave (or Cold Wave)

The Green Child Shimmering Basset

ALBUM REVIEW: THE GREEN CHILD – SHIMMERING BASSET

The story of The Green Child is a fascinating one with members Raven Mahon and Mikey Young meeting in California before Raven moved to Australia to work with influential Australian musician Mikey on the Mornington Peninsula, south of Melbourne.  Since the move, The Green Child have already made one album and ‘Shimmering Basset’ is their latest […]
Magick Mountain Weird Feelings

ALBUM REVIEW: MAGICK MOUNTAIN – WEIRD FEELINGS

Leeds band Magick Mountain are a new and exciting act that have concocted fuzzy, psychedelic tracks that result in a masterclass enough to make any fan of this genre stop and marvel. Their new album Weird Feelings is set for release on October 23rd and is going to be something special.  Immediately, ‘Bart Cobain’, with […]

Non-Ferrous Types of Metal Titles… of Quality

NEW SINGLE ‘NOWHERE, MAN’ RELEASED BY TUNE-YARDS

NEW SINGLE ‘INNER VERSIONS’ UNVEILED BY HEAVY SALAD AHEAD OF DEBUT ALBUM RELEASE

GLASGOW’S THE VANITIES UNVEIL NEW SINGLE + VIDEO ‘REALITY TV’

CARDIFF’S HMS MORRIS HAVE RELEASED LATEST SINGLE ‘MYFYRWYR RHYNGWLADOL’

ALBUM REVIEW: SCAPHOID – ABSENT PASSAGES

Scaphoid’s Absent Passages, is an interesting and impressive album –even more so because it’s a solo project arranged for full band with creator Matt Hobart playing every note.  Unfortunately, even though I know people who will really enjoy it, most of the observations I can make about Absent Passages are technical and critical, because as […]

LA BAND DEATH VALLEY GIRLS UNVEIL UPCOMING ALBUM’S TITLE TRACK ‘UNDER THE SPELL OF JOY’

BLACK HONEY UNVEIL NEW SINGLE ‘RUN FOR COVER’

LONDON BASED VIJI UNVEILS SINGLE ‘CHERRY’ AFTER SIGNING TO DIRTY HIT

HELENA DELAND HAS UNVEILED NEW SINGLE ‘TRUTH NUGGET’ AHEAD OF DEBUT ALBUM ‘SOMEONE NEW’

Bill Callahan Gold Record

ALBUM REVIEW: BILL CALLAHAN – GOLD RECORD

“Hello I’m Johnny Cash” sings Bill Callahan as the opening line on ‘Pigeons’ the first track on his new album ‘Gold Record’. Perhaps a cheeky nod to those who have noted that over the years Bill Callahan has slowly transitioned from indie rock quirkiness with his Smog output into  more mellowed, yet no less acerbic, […]
A Certain Ratio Loco

ALBUM REVIEW: A CERTAIN RATIO – LOCO

Which band can claim to have had The Beastie Boys at their debut NYC gig, Madonna supporting them in the early 80s, and also labelled ‘that jazz band from Wythenshawe’? Welcome back, A Certain Ratio.  I used to listen to ACR on the long bus journey from Wythenshawe to Altrincham on my Walkman (yes I […]

WHO ARE YA? ALTO KEY

CHICAGO BASED FEVER QUEEN’S DEBUT ALBUM ‘THE WORLD OF FEVER QUEEN’ AND LATEST SINGLE ‘LOVE LAST’ ARE OUT NOW

TOTTY UNVEIL LATEST SINGLE ‘SAME BED’ AHEAD OF EP RELEASE

MANCHESTER’S GEISTERHAUS RELEASES NEW SINGLE ‘THE GARDEN’

MIKE JOYCE ANNOUNCES RAFFLE OF PLATINUM DISC TO SUPPORT BACK ON TRACK

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