Indie
News: Tramlines 2016: First Acts Announced.
Tramlines has become the biggest day on the calendar for Sheffield residents. Every year it seems to get bigger and better, and people from further afield are travelling North to be part of it. Last year’s festival brought legends such as Martha Reeves, The Charlatans and Basement Jaxx to the plate. quite an act to …
Album Review: Dr. Dog – The Psychedelic Swamp
Over the last couple years or so every time Dr. Dog have released a new album I’ve worried it would be the last album of theirs I’d like. While every record they’ve put out has had three or four real gems, there seems to have been a good number of songs that seem to just …
New Music: Holly Macve – We Don’t Know Where We’re Going
Bella Union really is the place to be right now. It is already the home to such acts as MONEY, Ezra Furman, and Emmy The Great. So latest signing Holly Macve is in good company. The Yorkshire lass was signed up last year, and is already setting off on tour, supporting Villagers. This brand new …
Track: Silver Wilson – George Town
If your heart broke when Nottingham band Gorgeous Chans announced the end of their musical journey last month then fear not: Silver Wilson are here to pick up the pieces. Featuring three members of the recently disbanded group, Silver Wilson are here to pursue where the Gorgeous Chans left off; making exquisite indie music with an …
New Music: Malcolm Middleton – You & I, plus album news
Oh Malcolm Middleton – its been a while. Some seven years in fact, since his last (solo) album Waxing Gibbons. We’ve missed that poetry and prose, that wit and anger and charm and emotion, and for all the listening back over Arab Strap records its nice to have something new to get your teeth into, …
News: DIIV announce Spring European Tour
Brooklyn based shoegazers DIIV are gearing up to the release of their second album, Is The Is Are, a 17 song double album out this Friday (5th Feb) via Captured Tracks. Ahead of that, the follow up to critically acclaimed debut Oshin,they’ve announced a mammoth European tour this Spring taking in a handful of dates …
See: Steve Mason releases new video for “Planet Sizes”
In the past, former Beta Band frontman Steve Mason has been both crippled by both debt and depression, but it looks as though he might be in a better place right now with the forthcoming ‘Meet the Humans’ album out on February 26th via Double Six. Planet Sizes is the first track to be taken …
News: Fatherson announce sophomore album ‘Open Book’
Scottish trio Fatherson have announced details of their new album Open Book, which will be released on 3rd June 2016. Their latest single ‘Lost Little Boys’ premiered on Huw Stephen’s Radio 1 programme this week, introducing fans to tales of friendship, growing up, and the band’s journey through the music industry. Fatherson have managed to …
Album Review: The Crookes – Lucky Ones
Sheffield band The Crookes have returned with their fourth studio album, titled Lucky Ones, accompanied with a full UK tour this February and European and USA excursions not long after. Lucky Ones is a 10-track wonder which lets go of all the bitter anger of Soapbox and the blind hope of Hold Fast; it lands somewhere in …
Track: IDestroy – Vanity Loves Me
Bristol all-grrrl (you see what I did there, right) trio IDestroy, aka singer/guitarist Bec Jevons alongside Becky Baldwin (bass/backing vocals) and Jenn Haneef (drums), are preparing for the release of their debut EP ‘Vanity Loves Me’ on February 26th. Ahead of its release the girls are streaming the title track, a sneering but infectious slice …