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News: Kompakt spreads its wings to Ibiza and Glastonbury this Summer – Full details
There’s not many things that legendary label Kompakt hasn’t done, but its going about filling any gaps in its impressive CV this summer. Its almost incredulous to think that a label that has been at the forefront on electronic music for so long hasn’t held a residency in Ibiza, but not only is it true, …
See: HOTEI ft. IGGY POP – ‘How The Cookie Crumbles’
Japanese guitarist Hotei is probably best known outside of his home country for creating the song ‘‘Battle Without Honor Or Humanity’ which was used by Tarantino as the main theme for Kill Bill, but in a career spanning over 3 decades, he has worked with some of the all time greats – David Bowie, Andy Mackay …
Festival Review: Raw Power 2015
Above: Circle – All photography by the author. You would be forgiven for thinking that a festival with a name like Raw Power would promote a very specific style of music. One pictures a hoard of hard rock bands whose members never really grew out of their Black Sabbath phase, their music a slow variation …
Tracks: The Strypes – Get Into It, plus Autumn tour dates
After the stir their debut album ‘Snapshot’ caused back in 2013, Irish four piece are back with a new album ‘Little Victories’, out later in the year. Currently in the midst of a 30 date ‘Flat Out’ UK tour, the band have announced the first single to be taken from the album, ‘Get into It’ …
News: Jesus and Mary Chain – ‘Live at Barrowlands’ 10″ + LP + CD
Just over thirty years ago brothers William and Jim Reid, emerged from the East Kilbride dole queue in a wave of feedback, distortion and attitude, the likes of which had never before been seen or heard. Early gigs were notoriously short, amphetamine fueled affairs and would often descend into violence, and chaos. Coming in at …
See: Funktionalust release video for Even
South London duo Funktionalust follow the release of their debut EP A Different Street this week with a new video, their first, for closing track Even. Early tracks Seats’, ‘Dots’ and ‘Likeability’ but interest on the duo, aka Sage Redman and Joe Gillick as they mixed up post-punk and electronica into something new and interesting, …
Track: Stalgia – Rust
Its difficult to impart information on a band that there is so little information abut as Stalgia. At the same time, it means you come at it from a completely open perspective, because there’s no prejudices because of place, time, history or anything else. Even on the press release that floated into Backseat Mafia towers, …
Track: Leeds’ Trudy release new video for ‘All My Love’
What do you suppose would happen if Dr. Dog, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, and The Fratellis morphed together into a three-piece from Leeds? Well, I’d suspect they’d sound a lot like Trudy. The Leeds trio have given us a new song in “All My Love”. It’s a lovely, wobbly little pop song that’s sweet at its …
Interview: Blitz pop trio CURXES
Macaulay Hopwood, Roberta Fidora and Camille Philips are CURXES and they’re based on the South coast of England. Their sound has been likened to “The sound of two robots f*cking”. Clearly, they’re our kind of band. CURXES talk to Nina Fritsch about their influences, their new LP and random budgie heads. One of the …
See: Hooton Tennis Club reveal video to Kathleen Sat on the arm of her favourite chair, plus tour dates
We’ve written about Chester/Ellesmere Port quartet Hooton Tennis Club before, and they’re certainly a band on an upward curve. Named after (suprisingly enough) a Tennis Club in nearby Little Sutton, then band grew up together and played in a number of similarly improbably named bands. Whilst studying at college they met up to record some …