Music
News: A big big love… Gigantic indie all-dayer 2016 headliners announced
As this years festival season draws to an end, news is already starting to break for what to loom forward to in 2016. Quite easily establishing itself as the season opener, Manchester’s Gigantic Indie All Dayer is back for round three of what promises to be yet another glorious nostalgic romp through the annals of …
Live Review: Cud – Sheffield, The Plug – 18.10.2015
Mike Dunphy and and William Potter have departed the stage, leaving drummer Gogs Byrn to back vocalist Carl Puttnam at the end of a blistering version of “No Smoking”. Cud have just performed their 1992 masterpiece, Asquarius, in full from beginning to end with an energy that would put a quartet of teenagers to shame. …
Track: Benjamin Verdoes – Night Walker
You might have come across Seattle beatmaker Benjamin Verdoes through his eccentric and unpredictable songwriting in Mt. St. Helens Vietnam Band. Since those days, he’s honed his skills as a producer and beatmaker, as witnessed by his previous solo effort, The Evil Eye. Out today via Brick Lane Records is a new EP, The One …
Track: Desperate Journalist “Perfect Health” Plus tour dates
Desperate Journalist continue to impress and rise above the current indie scene with their latest offering, 5 track EP ‘Good Luck’. Indicating a slight change of perspective for the band, promo-track ‘Perfect Health’ displays all the traits of an indie classic. At first coming across as a sweet reminisce of youthful love, on closer inspection …
News: Sleeping With Sirens Announce 2016 UK Headline Tour
2016 is set to be a great year for Sleeping With Sirens. After their massively successful 2015World Tour with fellow US band Pierce The Veil, SWS have announced a huge UK and European tour for early next year. With an ever growing fan base on social media, over 115 million album streams and over 720,000 …
Track: Kubalove – This Foolish Love
Kubalove, aka Anna Jackson, is back with a a new slice of luscious synth pop in the foe of ‘This Foolish Love’. Having had an immediate impact with last years singles ‘Dangerous’ and ‘All I want’, it’s the first new material since entering the studio and drops on October 16th. Sitting somewhere slightly leftfield and …
See: Lauren Aquilina releases the heartbreaking ‘Ocean’, plus tour dates
You can learn a lot about Lauren Aquilina from her Twitter bio: “nothing makes me happier than writing sad songs.” She’s continuing that trend with new song ‘Ocean’, which is her latest single and the title of her forthcoming EP. Lauren has had an incredible start to her music career, headlining the BBC introducing stage …
Album Review: United Bible Studies – ‘So As To Preserve The Mystery’
In an effort to maintain a balanced sense of perspective, it is necessary to flambé ones objective juices, to periodically take a trip outside of what is often mistakenly referred to as your, “comfort zone”. United Bible Studies‘ latest release, ‘So As To Preserve The Mystery’, could be construed as one such foray. I have …
See: PiL release video – The making of what the world needs now
PiL’s latest album, ‘What The World Needs Now’ has been very well received in all quarters. Hitting the official UK charts last week at No.29, the band have just released the behind the scenes film of the making of their self-funded long player. PiL will be touring extensively over the next few months. With dates …
See: Pinkshinyultrablash release video for kiddy pool dream, plus tour date news
Russian shoegaze outfit, Pinkshinyultrablast, keen to follow up the success of their debut album, “Everything Else Matters” ,release yet more bliss laden dream-pop on the world with latest single “Kiddy Pool Dreams”. For the video, the band have taken a fairly original approach and recorded peoples reactions, good and bad, to hearing the single through headphones… …