Oct 14

My Midnight Heart drops new track “anew”

The aim of Bris­­tol-based, New York-bred Angéli­ca Allen is to craft dreamy yet dance­able Avant-Pop with her project MyMid­night­Heart – and with new work called “Anew” she most def­i­nite­ly suc­ceeds, com­bin­ing ethe­re­al har­monies, hyp­not­ic drums, and sur­re­al sound­scapes. Her work is mul­ti-lay­ered, send­ing lis­ten­ers into a calm­ing and dreamy space. Angéli­ca retreat­ed from per­form­ing to focus…

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Oct 9

Red Sky July release single from upcoming album

Red Sky July release the sec­ond sin­gle, Stones and Bram­bles, from their upcom­ing, fourth album. A gen­tle love song over a fin­ger-pick­­ing gui­tar arpeg­gio, Stones and Bram­bles is deeply per­son­al, writ­ten by band mem­ber Shelly Poole in the after­math of gui­tarist – and her hus­band – Ally McErlaine’s brain haem­or­rhage. We’re lov­ing this beau­ti­ful track…

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Oct 5

A Moonless Night album and film by Snowapple

The women-led col­lec­tive Snowap­ple has been on cre­ative over­drive this year, now releas­ing an album and film project called A Moon­less Night. Inter­na­tion­al in mem­bers and in out­look, Snowap­ple has been togeth­er since 2013, with a pro­lif­ic out­put that has seen them involved with a mul­ti­tude of projects: move­ment, the­atre, mime, pup­petry, music, singing, poetry,…

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Oct 3

Womex Festival, Manchester 23–28th October

Man­ches­ter icon DJ Paulette to host Open­ing Night Con­cert. There are plen­ty of excit­ing events at the 30th edi­tion of WOMEX Fes­ti­val, tak­ing place in Man­ches­ter lat­er this month. WOMEX (World­wide Music Expo), gives music fans a unique oppor­tu­ni­ty to access this pres­ti­gious music indus­try event, and dis­cov­er over 50 live acts from across the world…

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Sep 24

New Shirley Baker online exhibition “Pavement Cracks”

Unseen Vin­tage Street Pho­tographs  Online Exhi­bi­tion: 24th Sep­tem­ber – 1st Novem­ber 2024.  The Cen­tre for British Pho­tog­ra­phy is hold­ing a new online exhi­bi­tion of street pho­tog­ra­ph­er Shirley Bak­er’s images. Tak­ing its name from a recur­ring motif in Lemn Sissay’s poem Flags, Pave­ment Cracks unveils pre­vi­ous­ly unseen images cap­tured by Shirley, tak­en in and around Man­ches­ter. The Cen­tre’s…

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Sep 23

Art Garfunkel and son Art Jnr release Time After Time

Art Gar­funkel and his son Art Gar­funkel Jnr have just released the first sin­gle Time After Time (orig­i­nal­ly per­formed by Cyn­di Lau­per) from their upcom­ing album. Their first col­lab­o­ra­tive stu­dio album. ‘Father and Son’ is set for release on Novem­ber 8, 2024, via BMG. The album com­pris­es a set of cov­ers album – a selec­tion of…

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Sep 20

Phildel performs at Karma Sanctum hotel

A Phildel gig is a rare thing indeed and when they do hap­pen, you can be sure of expe­ri­enc­ing some­thing orig­i­nal and mul­ti-sen­­so­ry. This lat­est show was an immer­sive expe­ri­ence replete with detail and sur­prise touch­es – we escaped to the woods with Phildel, her chil­dren hand­ing out aro­mat­ic leaves for ther­a­peu­tic effect and biscuits…

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Sep 18

The Pastels cover The Go! Team

To cel­e­brate 20 years since The Go! Team’s clas­sic album Thun­der, Light­ning, Strike, the band have asked a range of artists they love and admire to remix, rework and refash­ion tracks from the album, with a new one being released month­ly. So far we’ve seen reworks by Los Bitchos, Cor­ner­shop, Louie Zong, lilien rosar­i­an and…

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Sep 13

Review: Emita Ox, second album by Hello Mary

The New York City-based, all-female indie trio Hel­lo Mary came togeth­er in 2019 – they’ve been build­ing a name for them­selves the US and are cur­rent­ly dip­ping their toe in the UK live cir­cuit. Hele­na Straight (guitar/vocals), Stel­la Wave (drums/vocals), and Mikaela Oppen­heimer (bass) are amass­ing plen­ty of inter­est with their fuzzed-out tracks that incorporate,…

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Sep 12

Thoughts on summer festivals 2024

It’s Sep­tem­ber and sum­mer is retreat­ing fast. This is what End of the Road fes­ti­val in Dorset is all about – offer­ing one final chance to prance about in a field, choose food from a won­der­ful array of ven­dors, chat to just about any­one, and queue up for the toi­let with a cup of sawdust.…

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