Author: Olivia

Apr 28

Banco de Gaia + Pye Corner Audio + Warrington-Runcorn New Town

The Sev­enth Wave presents… as part of The Sev­enth Wave Fes­ti­val of Elec­tron­ic Music: Num­ber 15… Ban­co de Gaia, Pye Cor­ner Audio + War­ring­­ton-Run­­corn New Town Devel­op­ment Plan. Date: Sat­ur­day 10th May, 6–1pm at the Cas­tle and Fal­con, Birm­ing­ham. Immerse your­self in a fan­tas­tic evening of atmos­pher­ic elec­tron­i­ca with these three acts. Tick­ets sell­ing fast. Tick­ets avail­able here

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Apr 28

Neil Young compilation with covers by Sharon Van Etten, Courtney Barnett and more

We’re delight­ed to spread the word about Heart Of Gold Vol­ume 1, a com­pi­la­tion of Neil Young cov­ers per­formed by artists includ­ing The Doo­bie Broth­ers, Eddie Ved­der, Mum­ford & Sons, Sharon Van Etten, Fiona Apple, Bran­di Carlile and many more. The album is on release now. The project is by Los Ange­les-based pro­duc­tion house, Cin­e­ma Music Group (CMG) and is…

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Apr 23

MIEN: MIIEN album review

This week has seen the release of MIIEN, the sopho­more album from MIEN – a col­lab­o­ra­tive project that brings togeth­er a group of musi­cians who might be termed a psych super­group. Rishi Dhir, vocal­ist and song­writer with Mon­tre­al psych band Ele­phant Stone, ven­tures into dark­er ter­ri­to­ry along­side Alex Maas of The Black Angels, whose distinctive,…

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Apr 20

Other Side Psych Weekender

Annu­al psych week­ender by Oth­er Side Pro­mo­tions takes place at The Stron­groom Bar, Shored­itch, on 19th and 20th Sep­tem­ber with Kun­gens Man, The Jan­i­tors and Ver­stark­er on Fri­day. On Sat­ur­day it’s Fire­friend, Dead Sea Apes, Kom­by­nat Robot­ron, Bike, Parasta­t­ic, Amon Acid and Auto­haus. Live visu­als by Dwave­hed. Tyne­side band Parasta­t­ic played in Feb­ru­ary, show­cas­ing their…

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Apr 15

Love to be… festival, Harrogate

Leg­endary house music brand, Love to be… is back for an all-day cel­e­bra­tion of house music in the lush green set­ting of The Stray in Har­ro­gate on Sat­ur­day, 6th Sep­tem­ber. Build­ing on the suc­cess of last year’s sell­out debut, this edi­tion turns the dial up with a bold line-up, spec­tac­u­lar pro­duc­tion and 11 hours of non-stop music across two stages and a VIP area from leg­ends and pioneers…

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Apr 8

Lael Neale dreamy new single Down on the Freeway

Indie singer-song­writer Lael Neale’s lat­est offer­ing Down on the Free­way from her upcom­ing album is a cap­ti­vat­ing and per­son­al explo­ration of Los Ange­les, accom­pa­nied by a self-direc­t­ed video that’s just as entranc­ing. Down on the Free­way cap­tures the pulse of con­tem­po­rary LA, the city Lael returned to after spend­ing three years back in rur­al Virginia…

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Apr 7

Soul II Soul Live in Liverpool Cathedral

On Final Release now. There’s some­thing mag­i­cal about a Soul II Soul con­cert – and the beau­ti­ful set­ting of Liv­er­pool Cathe­dral will make this night extra spe­cial. Icon­ic Con­certs presents Soul II Soul Live in Liv­er­pool Cathe­dral on Sat­ur­day 9th August 2025. 7:00pm til 10:30pm (Per­for­mance starts 7:45pm) The Gram­my Award win­ning col­lec­tive Soul II…

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Apr 5

Ireland’s Side 4 Collective fresh new single “Me and Vincent”

Fresh, vibrant and with a youth­ful ener­gy, ‘Me & Vin­cent’ via AMS Records bursts onto the aur­al land­scape com­mand­ing to be heard. With a play­ful pos­i­tiv­i­ty, this new release is a ‘love let­ter to the urban and sub­ur­ban com­mu­ni­ties of Dublin’.  Side 4 col­lec­tive is spear­head­ed by Irish drum­mer Dave Hinger­ty who has record­ed with renowned artists…

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Apr 4

Magnetic Skies unveil new single and shows

Syn­th­pop, dark­wave band Mag­net­ic Skies have been work­ing on a new sin­gle for spring. A Place on Earth is released on Fri­day 4th April and there are two upcom­ing shows. The sin­gle fea­tures Mag­net­ic Skies’ sig­na­ture vin­tage synth sound over­laid with vocal­ist Simon Ken­t’s dra­mat­ic and doomy vocals. There’s also a strik­ing mono­chro­mat­ic video – below.…

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Mar 28

Review: Seattle band Great Grandpa new album Patience, Moonbeam

Five-piece Seat­tle band Great Grand­pa may not be a house­hold name in the UK but hope­ful­ly their next album out 28th March called Patience, Moon­beam, on Run For Cov­er records, will help rem­e­dy that. Great Grand­pa are a reward­ing band to lis­ten to. That’s part­ly down to Alex Men­ne’s warm, coun­try-lean­ing vocals that ani­mate the…

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