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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Terry Bickers and The Inner Spiral gigs and new music

Ter­ry Bick­ers, leg­endary founder mem­ber and gui­tarist of House of Love fame has announced three inti­mate shows and there’s new music – under wraps for now – to come too. The orig­i­nal band’s phe­nom­e­nal first album House of Love in 1990 still sounds as fresh now as it did on its release – tracks like Shine…

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Mien (Black Angels and Elephant Stone) tour UK

Psych Krautrock band Mien – mem­bers include Black Angels Alex Maas and Rishi Dhir of Ele­phant Stone – is return­ing to tour the UK in May, and we could­n’t be more excit­ed. Mien mem­ber Rishi Dhir is lead vocal­ist plus gui­tar and sitar play­er with his oth­er band Ele­phant Stone who have toured the UK…

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Constellations For The Lonely by Doves

By some weird chance, the first time I heard Rene­gade, I was step­ping off the tram and cross­ing the sad waste­land of Pic­cadil­ly Gar­dens to meet a friend in the North­ern Quar­ter. Omi­nous, thun­dery synths and an echoey piano note fade to Jim­i’s famil­iar vocals describ­ing a bleak and tor­tured land­scape, both emo­tion­al­ly and physically.…

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Choses Sauvages release new single Cours Tourjours

We’ve become fans of French-Cana­di­an band Choses Sauvages with their upbeat brand of dance-punk. Their sin­gle called ‘En joue’ caught our atten­tion last year. Now a new track just released called Cours Tou­jours offers anoth­er glimpse into the Fran­coph­o­ne band’s sound. There’s a touch of Steely Dan to the open­ing notes before the track breaks…

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Parastatic release powerful new Brutalist themed album Concrete Reborn

The North East-based band Parasta­t­ic are back with a tweaked line­up and an intrigu­ing new album, Con­crete Reborn on Workie Tick­et Records. It’s a son­ic explo­ration of archi­tec­ture, specif­i­cal­ly Bru­tal­ism, which coin­ci­den­tal­ly hap­pens to be enjoy­ing its own cin­e­mat­ic moment. I was sur­prised to realise that near­ly a decade has gone by since I last…

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Pale Blue Eyes: new album, ‘New Place’ out 7th March

We’re excit­ed to dis­cov­er Pale Blue Eyes are to release their third stu­dio album on 7th March. Titled New Place, to be released on the band’s Broad­cast Record­ings label, the work reflects a sub­stan­tial shift in the band’s lives, both geo­graph­i­cal­ly and emo­tion­al­ly. The lat­est album includes two guest musi­cians who have fea­tured in the…

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Sparks release single, reveal album and tour

Sparks fans have plen­ty to be hap­py about in 2025. The broth­ers Ron and Rus­sell Mael have a new sin­gle out and there’s news about a tour and album to come. Tick­ets go on gen­er­al sale on Fri­day 7th Feb­ru­ary. Pre­sales start Wednes­day 5th Feb­ru­ary. Sparks new sin­gle is called Do Things My Own Way – by way of…

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