Sky Larkin Stream New Single
Leeds indie punks Sky Larkin have confirmed details of a new single ahead of their second album. Sky Larkin represent a new mood in British music. Sure, they're an indie rock act but don't go...
View ArticleThe Divine Comedy Add November Tour Dates
Witty Irish indie poppers The Divine Comedy have added a host of November tour dates to their schedule. The Divine Comedy are one of the most under-rated acts in the country. A series of hit singles...
View ArticleKylie Minogue - Aphrodite
She’s been through hell in recent years, but our Kylie’s back on the scene and she’s shinier than ever. Her latest musical endeavour reinstates the diminutive Aussie as the reigning princess of pop...
View ArticleThe Boy Who Trapped The Sun - Fireplace
The boy, twenty-five-year-old Colin MacLeod, eloquently brings you into his dreamlike world, mostly set in the Isle of Lewis in Northern Scotland. The glorious title track refers to the four days...
View ArticleThee Vicars Play Live For Merc
Watch a video report and footage of Thee Vicars playing live in Merc's Carnaby Street shop on Friday 2nd July. All Summer Merc are inviting bands to play live in the shop every second Friday evening...
View ArticleFeeder - Renegades
Contractual obligations fulfilled, new sticksmith on board and Feeder have the freedom of their own label. Unjustly, 2008’s ‘Silent Cry’ sold fewer copies than Salman Rushdie novels in Bangladesh,...
View ArticleAu Revoir Simone - Night Light
Remix albums can destroy a perfectly good band’s sound. Au Revoir Simone create light, experimental and ethereal indie pop, music that should be easy to play with, but at the same time, equally easy...
View ArticleOzomatli - Fire Away
Sprawling LA collective Ozomatli return with ‘Fire Away’, their fifth full-length to date, and offer another rich dose of positive energy and musical diversity. The album provides some fairly easy -...
View ArticleWild Nothing - Gemini
Childhood lingers throughout your life. Try as you might, a fully grown adult will never quite appreciate sunny days, fresh cut lawns and epic football games as much as an eight year old. A solo...
View ArticleGrasscut - 1 Inch/ 1/2 Mile
Found sounds and field recordings provide the source material for the latest shuriken chuckers at Ninja HQ, the music of Grasscut leant a quintessentially British quality by folk song samples, the...
View ArticleDinosaur Pile Up Confirm Debut Album
Leeds grunge types Dinosaur Pile Up have confirmed details of their debut album and an expansive new tour. The Leeds music scene is deeply close knit. Seminal dance punks Mother Vulpine may have split...
View ArticleI Am Kloot - Sky At Night
It’s business as usual for the Manchester-based trio with their fifth offering of sedate guitar warbling. Mixed by Guy Garvey of Elbow, the whole timbre seems to have a Parisian flavour that conjures...
View ArticleI Am Kloot September Tour
Cult Manchester act I Am Kloot have confirmed details of a lengthy British tour in September. Try as they might, some groups just never quite get the recognition they deserve. Lauded by fellow...
View ArticleNigel of Bermondsey - London Dreamtime
Former Gay Dad bassist Nigel Hoyle’s second solo album develops his gritty take on bedsit pop. Huge hooks on the excellent ‘It’s A Killing Thing’ counterbalance a requiem to street violence, while a...
View ArticleLarsen B - Musketeer
A musical version of relaxation therapy; Larsen B make you lie back and imagine being elsewhere. Transporting the listener away from a world of the urban and mundane they weave pretty rural landscapes...
View ArticleMilky Disco 3 - To The Stars
The latest Milky Disco comp (confusingly the fourth installment, not the third) continues the series’ exploration of the outer limits of space disco. Black Devil Disco Club are here doing, well, much...
View ArticleOnes To Watch - Janelle Monae
“A lot of songs come to me in my dreams, while I’m asleep. I have a recorder by my bed,” explains the twenty-four year old Janelle Monae. “Everything from images, string arrangements, bass lines,...
View ArticleMystery Jets - Serotonin
The Eel Pie Islanders' sees the band mature as songwriters, which should attract the mainstream attention that's so overdue them. Opener 'Alice Springs' sees the band lace themselves in psychedelic...
View ArticleSlash Live
View a photo gallery from guitar hero Slash and his band playing live at Manchester Academy on Saturday 03 July 2010. The ex-Guns'n'Roses guitarist has been in the UK performing at a number of...
View ArticleGlastonbury 2010: The Chillin' Fields
View a gallery of photos from the three days and nights of the Glastonbury Festival 2010 capturing some of the people, entertainment and unique sights of the Worthy Farm shindig. Photos by Marc Sethi
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