As Halloween morphs into an ever-more garish orgy of plastic spiders, eyeballs and and other assorted landfill, how much more satisfying it is to turn to its more ancient and spiritual side. Samhain, the ancient Gaelic festival, marks the end of the Celtic year, it’s a time when ‘the veil between the supernatural and the physical…
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Wet Leg fans – we have news. They have announced their biggest headline shows to date, performing at iconic outdoor venues in Manchester, Leeds and London in July 2026, with special guests English Teacher. The three-date run begins at Manchester’s Castlefield Bowl on 8th July, followed by Leeds Millenium Square on the 9th, concluding at London’s Alexandra Palace Park on 10th July. Tickets go on…
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There seems to be no stopping Sparks who have just added to their prolific output with a new EP called MADDER!, a extension of the recent MAD! album. The Mael brothers have described the birth of this new work: “Not wanting the Mad!ness to end and buoyed by the phenomenal reaction to MAD!, we made…
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The track in question is WMG/WMD – a remix by David Holmes, with that riff given a scuzzy quality, combining with Peter Perrett’s distinctive careworn and vulnerable vocals. At the end of last year, Peter Perrett released The Cleansing – his third album for Domino which featured Johnny Marr, Fontaines D.C.’s Carlos O’Connell and Tom Coll, Bobby Gillespie, Dream Wife guitarist Alice Go…
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When Lael Neale toured the UK earlier this year it was great to find the venue so packed — a sign that others have discovered what a quietly brilliant artist she is. Her album Altogether Stranger shows her songwriting at its most focused and affecting (see review here). Today, Lael Neale is sharing the official…
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Hot Chip share two new remixes of Ready For The Floor – their highest charting single yet – by UK producer Mella Dee. On the Mella Dee Dub version, Mella Dee teases out the track to seven minutes focusing and slowing down Alexis Taylor’s singular vocals: “Do It Do It Do It Now.” whilst the Spanglecore Dub…
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Celebrating 10 years as a recording project, Hello Cosmos return with a flurry of activity. They are back with a refreshed lineup and a lead track called Grind into the Shrine. There’s a second studio album on the way for release sometime in autumn. Check out their live shows too. Grind into the Shrine is the…
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Eight studio albums in, Hot Chip remain as vital as ever and today they announce their first Best Of album, Joy In Repetition, to be released September 5th. Joy In Repetition – the title alludes to both the lyrics of their career-defining track and one of Alexis Taylor’s favourite Prince songs – captures something elemental about the band: a…
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Something joyful this way comes from Animal Collective. The new single called Love on the Big Screen came out last week, via Domino, and there’s a special limited-edition 7‑inch single featuring the B‑side Buddies On the Blackboard set to be released on August 1st. Both tracks were produced by Avey Tare and Adam McDaniel, engineered and mixed by McDaniel…
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Always inventive, with a unique and expansive world view, the international, female-led Snowapple collective has released a new album June 13th titled Utopia, blending music, theatre and activism. And they will be playing at Glastonbury festival on 25th June. The Snowapple collective evades pigeonholing into particular genre; instead they embracing and bring together different genres in…
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