Category: Recommended

Shirley Baker photo in Manchester slums
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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The Pastels
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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Hello Mary
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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Aug 24

All Points East: photo gallery Sofia Kourtesis, Newdad, Pixies, Jockstrap

It was a beau­ti­ful­ly sun­ny All Points East fes­ti­val at Vic­to­ria Park for the final Fri­day – with Sofia Kor­te­sis, Pix­ies, Joe God­dard, New­dad, Jock­strap, Nation of Lan­guage, Float­ing Points, Monobloc, Dove Ellis, Astral Bak­ers, Vagabon, The Kills and more. LCD Soundsys­tem head­lined with a per­for­mance that com­bined pow­er and emo­tion. All Points East festival,…

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Aug 6

The Go! Team remixes for 20th anniv album Thunder, Lightning, Strike

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. Fol­low­ing on from the likes of Cor­ner­shop, Louie Zong, lilien rosar­i­an and CV Vision, next up is  Los Bitchos, who provide…

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Jul 27

Photo gallery: Love Motion at South Facing Festival

The sun bathed the open­ing con­cert of the South Fac­ing fes­ti­val series in a gold­en glow. The crowd stepped up to the occa­sion bedecked in their dis­co fin­ery, ready to par­ty in the park to a run of DJs, with Grace Jones clos­ing the evening with her visu­al­ly and aural­ly stun­ning show. Much missed was…

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Jul 15

Kaleidoscope festival 2024 photo gallery

Kalei­do­scope fes­ti­val at Alexan­dra Palace and Park, north Lon­don is a real fam­i­ly event with lots going on for chil­dren as well as adults. ‘R’ Voic­es Choir, Huey Mor­gan the Fun Lovin’ Crim­i­nal, Antony Szmierek, The Go! Team, Soul II Soul, Min­istry of Sound Clas­si­cal per­formed on the Main Stage, while at the Fringe Stage…

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Jun 24

Ghostpoet reveals long-awaited EP and video

Ghost­po­et, aka Obaro Ejimi­we, is gift­ed with a sub­lime­ly expres­sive voice and togeth­er with his dark lyrics, exam­ines his per­son­al demons and ques­tion his uncer­tain­ty and despair with the state of the world. I did­n’t man­age to see him per­form till 2021 when he appeared at Green Man fes­ti­val. He was in the cav­ernous, dark Far…

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Jun 14

Matty, formerly of BadBadNotGood, unveils new release

Fol­low­ing the announce­ment of his forth­com­ing album POPS, Cana­di­an song­writer and artist Matthew Tavares, aka Mat­ty, for­mer­ly of Bad­Bad­Not­Good, returns with a new dou­ble sin­gle release Mad­ly / Around the World  Mad­ly pos­sess­es an under­stat­ed charm, exud­ing a feel-good, sum­mery warmth that instant­ly pulls you in. The hyp­not­ic ener­gy from the drums and the smooth chord pro­gres­sion com­bine to propel…

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Pigs x 7 on stage
Jun 4

New Brighton Psych Fest announces Stewart Lee to curate a stage

The inau­gur­al Brighton Psych Fest has plen­ty of excite­ment in store, with some of the most com­pelling acts on the live cir­cuit right now and it takes place across sev­er­al of Brighton’s most icon­ic and beloved venues includ­ing Con­corde 2, The Hope & Ruin, The Green Door Store and The Prince Albert. The fes­ti­val has…

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