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See: Steel Pulse release video teaser for documentary Dreadtown
Legendary Birmingham reggae band Steel Pulse have teamed up with the director Yoni Gal and the Oscar nominated producer Mile Lerner to launch an Indiegogo site to raise the funds needed to finish a feature documentary about the band, titled Dreadtown. Expected towards the end of 2016, it explores the history of the band, through …
News: Black Crowes reissued on vinyl
The Black Crowes were a band for whom the stars almost aligned. Arriving on the music scene seemingly fully formed with their Faces / Rolling Stones / Humble Pie blues rocking coupled to a type of hard rock that exposed the hair metal hoards as being an exercise in style over substance. Fronted by brothers …
News: RIP – Phil ‘Philthy Animal’ Taylor
Ex-Motörhead sticksman, Phil ‘Philthy Animal’ Taylor, has died aged 61. Originally from Chesterfield, Taylor joined the London metal band in 1975, not long after its conception. Alongside Ian ‘Lemmy’ Kilmister and Larry Wallis, Taylor played with the band for a year before guitarist Wallis was fired, to be replaced by Eddie ‘Fast’ Clarke. Following this, …
Competition: Win tickets to see ‘The Wailers’ perform ‘Legend’
Reggae icons The Wailers are set to hit these shores in a week or two, for their biggest UK tour to date, where they will play ‘Legend’ in it’s entirety. Formed in 1969 with Bob Marley at the helm, The Wailers set out on an odyssey to promote Rastafarian ideals of peace, love and equality …
See: Ezra Furman releases video for ‘Body was made’/announces November and February live dates
Following on from the release of his brilliant album Perpetual Motion People, Ezra Furman has released a new video for the single Body Was Made, about which Furman says “Body Was Made is a protest song against the people and forces that would make me ashamed of my body, my gender and my sexuality. Its …
News: FIRST FLUFFER PIT PARTY with GOD DAMN, Baby In Vain, Eighteen Nightmares At The Lux, Dressmaker
1 SECRET WAREHOUSE. 4 BANDS. NO STAGE. Sounds like a whole heap of fun to us. Cult underground record label Fluffer Records who first brought you the likes of Slaves, Cerebral Ballzy and God Damn are launching a new series of nights in partnership with Clash Magazine to shake up the underground music scene called, …
News, Don Broco announce full support for December tour
Broco are back, and this time they’ve brought some friends. This week the Oxford-rockers have announced their support for their upcoming December tour. Joining them on the road are Coasts, Arcane Roots, and Symmetry on the 9 date tour all over the UK. With the Edinburgh show already sold out, the Automatic live show is …
See: Vulgarians release new video for “Wet Juice”, plus Tour dates
Hull post-punk outfit Vulgarians wagon has picked up momentum and doesn’t look like its set to stop rumbling until they’ve brought the intensity of their fuzzed out, reverb rich noise to every inch of the UK. Their live set, along with leaked demos, “Autocratic” and “Naturally Nothing” started attaracting attention earlier in the year, and …
See: Joe Jackson reveals Spring 2016 European tour dates
It’s amazing how some artists stay with you over the course of your life. In the days before iPads and things and 24 hour children’s programmes, as children we used to end up sometimes doing quiet things, like reading and drawing – on paper, with pencils and everything. In the kitchen my mother would have …
Obituary: Carey Lander – Paradoxically Modest and Truly Brilliant (1982 -2015)
Some musicians surprise fans by not knowing how to deal with appreciation and disarm reviewers by willing to absorb criticism of their music. Carey Lander, the keyboard player with Glaswegian indie pop band Camera Obscura from 2001 until her death in October 2015, did both. Erudite and demure offstage but ironically confident in projecting her …