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Album Review: The Cribs – 24/7 Rock Star Shit
24/7 Rock Star Shit is the new album by Wakefield lads The Cribs. Their seventh studio album (if you don’t include best-of Payola) begins in the most Cribs was possible; a screech of guitar into an immediately catchy riff. The classic Jarman brother vocals on Give Good Time aren’t note perfect, but that isn’t why …
News: Cambridge and Newport Folk festivals to merge
From next year, two of the powerhouses of folk are joining forces, Newport and Cambridge folk festivals will be a partnership to bring folk music across the Atlantic. Further details will be revealed in the run up to next year, but it’s certainly an intriguing move. Hopefully it will lead to a number of artists …
Modern Studies at the Edinburgh Fringe
The elegant but dusty pop of Modern Studies’ harmonium-driven Swell To Great album was one of the highlights of last year, coming out on the ever-reliable Edinburgh label Song, By Toad. And they’ll be gracing the Edinburgh festival next month as part of Sounding, a Made in Scotland music showcase, alongside Lomond Campbell and string …
NEWS: Nothing More Set To Return To The UK Plus Album News!
It’s been just under a year since Nothing More last graced the UK at the Reading and Leeds Festivals but they’re set to return in the Winter for a few select dates in support of their new album The Stories We Tell Ourselves. This is the first headline tour they will have done in two …
Track: Beaches – ‘Void’
Melbourne psych outfit Beaches release a new single ‘Void’, from a forthcoming double album Second of Spring in September. Australian psych is really setting the pace at the moment, and this is no exception. Driving guitars and a relentless beat that doesn’t let up, like Dandy Warhols in a wind-tunnel, echo-drenched vocals, and yes I think …
See: VUKOVI share behind the scenes of their debut album ahead of summer festivals
At first glance, Vukovi may seem loud, intimidating, and a little bit intense, but underneath the glitter and guitar riffs you’ll realise they’re just as weird as you are. The Scottish neon-rockers have just shared a behind-the-scenes look at the making of their debut album, bringing you into their recording studios and showing you how …
News : Bureau B to release Moebius Story Leidecker album ‘familiar’
Dieter Moebius (1944–2015), was one half of German experimental Krautrock pioneers ‘Cluster’, along with Hans-Joachim Roedelius. The pair collaborated widely and released various other albums; the Moebius & Plank (as in Conny, legendary producer) album ‘Rastakraut Pasta’ being one of the more interesting and bizarre. Now Hamburg indie label Bureau B will release in October, recording sessions …
News: Richard Thompson announces new albums and tour news
A legendary singer songwriter, and one of the most celebrated guitar players to strap on a six-string, Richard Thompson will release a follow up to his well received 2014 release, Acoustic Classics, on his own Beeswing record label, on August 11. In support of Acoustic Classics Vol. II, Thompson will play Cropredy Festival in August, …
News: Fazerdaze announce more dates in Europe and Australia
In March, Backseat Mafia waxed lyrical about the astonishingly brilliant album ‘Morningside” from New Zealand’s Fazerdaze (still on high rotation on this writer’s turntable), and the band had a very sucessful tour across Europe in May. So successful in fact that Amelia Murray and her band are back on the road again: Thursday 21 September …
New Video: Saint Etienne – Magpie Eyes
There is a particular Danish word “hygge’ – pronounced as ‘hooga’ – that best translates into English as “cosiness” or creating a warm atmosphere and enjoying the good things in life with good people. I always get this feeling with Saint Etienne. There is something quintessentially and comfortingly British about them – more specific London …