GIT AWARD 2015 SHORTLIST REVEALED
It’s easy to be dismissive with regard to music awards, indeed the ones at the grander end of the musical spectrum where the great and the good gather to be embraced by faceless bean counters should be
TRACK OF THE DAY – KID WAVE – ‘WONDERLUST’
One of our tips for 2015, Kid Wave return with a new single ‘Wonderlust’ taken from their forthcoming debut album. It’s a mixture of classic no nonsense Primal Scream guitar riffs, and soaring blissed out
TRACK OF THE DAY – BRUISING – ‘CAN’T YOU FEEL’
If you fancy forming a band, it’s simple – wear a ‘Perfect Pussy’ T-shirt. That’s apparently how Leeds duo Bruising became acquainted. Singer and guitarist Naomi Baguley met Ben Lewis in a nightclub when she
ALBUM REVIEW – SHINIES – ‘Nothing Like Something Happens Anywhere’
A couple of years back Manchester band Shinies became something of a bête noire to the Daily Mail’s ‘we demand to be offended by EVERYTHING brigade.’ This was in the wake of a video that
Liverpool Sound City Announces More International Names for 2015 Conference
NEWS Sound City Announces International Names for 2015 Conference Wayne Coyne revealed as keynote speaker Julian Cope & Viv Albertine also join the conference line-up The eighth Liverpool Sound City is proud to announce
TRACK OF THE DAY – FLOWER FELLOW – ‘White And Blue’
This song popped up in our email box last week and it taught us a valuable lesson, namely never judge an artist by their stage name. Sadly being the vacant superficial charlatans we are, we
TRACK OF THE DAY – NOVELLA – ‘Land Gone’
We’ve featured Novella a few times over the last couple of years after catching them on tour with Dum Dum Girls. Their debut album ‘Land’ has been a long time coming but based on the
BLACK HONEY LIVE – The Castle Hotel – Manchester – 5/02/2015
As one of the most blogged about new acts of 2014, it was perhaps fitting that Brighton’s hotly tipped Black Honey stopped off at Manchester’s Castle Hotel as part of their first UK headline tour.
VIDEO OF THE WEEK – JACK ROBERT HARDMAN – ‘Nuclear Family’ – Première
Singer songwriter Jack Robert Hardman’s first release of 2015 is built around a dark compelling narrative that challenges the notion of the ‘perfect’ ‘Nuclear Family’ revealing that beneath the surface it may not quite be
TRACK OF THE DAY – MOON KING – ‘Apocalypse’
You could say ‘Apocalypse’ is a tune of two halves from a band of two halves. Toronto’s Moon King are songwriter Daniel Benjamin and singer/guitarist Maddy Wilde. They’ve recently been touring the UK with compatriots
TRACK OF THE DAY (2) – FINDLAY – ‘Electric Bones’
We love Findlay, she was one of our tips for big things at the end of 2013, and if anybody caught her live set at Glastonbury last year, you’d have to be a near clinical
TRACK OF THE DAY – OH WONDER – ‘Lose It’
Hot on the heels of yesterdays ‘mystery band’ revelation, we have another today in the shape of Oh Wonder, who are one of our tips for 2015. Again they arrived with no press photo, no back-story