Warm Graves releases single called Neon from his next album

Leipzig-based Jonas Wehn­er, aka Warm Graves, is about to release his sec­ond album in sev­en years. He’s been in hiber­na­tion since his debut Ships Will Come, and is now enter­ing a new phase with album Ease to be released on Feb­ru­ary 25th 2022. For now, you can sit back and take in a first glimpse…

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Interview with singer songwriter Richard Walters

With five crit­i­cal­ly acclaimed albums and four EPs to his name since 2007, singer song­writer Richard Wal­ters is noth­ing if not pro­lif­ic. And now the solo artist is on the cusp of releas­ing a dig­i­tal sin­gle called The Man I Loved from his upcom­ing EP in Jan­u­ary 2022. There are fur­ther strings to his bow:…

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Bearded Theory 2022: the second wave

Rea­son to cel­e­brate: Beard­ed The­o­ry fes­ti­val 2022 has just announced a sec­ond wave of artists which we’re reveal­ing right now. And they’re a crack­er. Or maybe that should be crack­ers, but that does­n’t sound right.  So here we go… tick, tick, boom! Yes, The Hives have joined the line­up and they’re well-known as a bril­liant live…

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Nightmares on Wax new single with OSHUN

Night­mares on Wax is set to release his album Shout Out! To Free­dom on 29th Octo­ber and so far, things are look­ing very pos­i­tive for the artists ninth work. Night­mares on Wax, aka George Eve­lyn, has revealed an impres­sive list of col­lab­o­ra­tive forces: Green­tea Peng, OSHUN, Shaba­ka Hutch­ings, Halle Supreme, Pip Mil­lett and more.  He first…

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New platform GigRealm aims to streamline the system

A new plat­form named GigRealm launch­es today which aims to help match artists to venues and stream­line the process for artists to play live at grass­roots venues. Although the idea was cre­at­ed before the pan­dem­ic, Lon­­don-based music com­pa­ny GigRealm will now be part of the solu­tion to help the belea­guered music indus­try get back on…

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Aftertouch: magical new album from Absolutely Free

Emerg­ing from a misty and dreamy land­scape comes the sec­ond album from Cana­di­an out­fit Absolute­ly Free called After­touch, released Sep­tem­ber 24 on Boiled Records. The band caught my atten­tion ear­li­er in the year with the thought-pro­­vok­ing sin­gle How to Paint Clouds – the sec­ond track on this new release. Absolute­ly Free, com­pris­ing the core trio…

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Bearded Theory first reveal for 2022

What a joy to see Beard­ed The­o­ry fes­ti­val back on track for 2022. Dates con­firmed are 26–29th May, at its reg­u­lar spot of Cat­ton Hall, Der­byshire. The line­up is look­ing good, nay, amaz­ing with Pat­ti Smith to appear. Also Place­bo, and The Flam­ing Lips. The Flam­ing Lips will close the fes­ti­val on Sun­day, no doubt…

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New release: Pictish Trail ‘Natural Successor’

There’s a fab­u­lous wild ener­gy about the new Pic­tish Trail sin­gle Nat­ur­al Suc­ces­sor, bring­ing its joy­ous aban­don­ment from the rugged land­scapes of the remote isle of Eigg to fes­ti­val crowds this late sum­mer and beyond. Get out there, recon­nect with your soul and dance. The stomp­ing five min­utes-long track announces itself with a steady drum­beat before…

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Green Man 2021 review: frolics in the Brecon Beacons

Imag­ine all the ele­ments that make Green Man fes­ti­val so spe­cial, mul­ti­ply that sev­er­al times over and you’ll get the gen­er­al idea of the sheer plea­sure and excite­ment of this year‘s extrav­a­gan­za in the Bre­con Bea­cons.  The Green Man team did every­thing they could in order to go ahead this year and it was all…

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Sparks on the beach by Simon Beck

A giant image of the Mael broth­ers Ron and Rus­sell, aka Sparks, has been carved into the sand on Bre­an beach, Som­er­set. The work was cre­at­ed by Simon Beck who was moved to cre­ate the impres­sive work to cel­e­brate the release of the new film about the two, called The Sparks Broth­ers. Simon Beck, a…

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