Chose Sauvages band
Nov 20

Choses Sauvages new single “En Joue”

High ener­gy post-punk band Choses Sauvages are from Mon­tréal, Cana­da. The six-piece out­fit have built quite a fear­some rep­u­ta­tion for their live per­for­mances – pow­er­ful, explo­sive and dance-heavy. With two albums under their belt, Chose Sauvages have just unveiled a new sin­gle called En Joue. En Joue exhibits all the hall­marks of the band’s dance-punk…

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Scions press photo
Nov 8

Review: Scions and the mysterious To Cry Out in the Wilderness

On rare occa­sions, a piece of music is released that exists in a sphere of its own, defi­ant­ly unique and refus­ing to be slot­ted into this or that genre. Some­thing that stops you in your tracks. The just-released To Cry Out in the Wilder­ness by Scions on Idée Fixe Records is such an album, a…

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Nov 7

Magnetic Skies album launch, Palindrones support at venue 229 photo gallery

Mag­net­ic Skies’ vinyl album launch for their first album Empire Falling, took place at venue 229 Lon­don, based at Great Port­land Street. With synth-rich anthemic tracks that radi­ate an emo­tion­al land­scape from eupho­ria to dark­ness, the band’s tracks are enhanced by pow­er­ful synths and Simon Ken­t’s vocal prowess.  The band opened with Fad­ing Lights, following…

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John Hopkins Forever held cover
Oct 30

Jon Hopkins reveals stellar NASA collaboration track “Forever Held”

Today, Jon Hop­kins shares a brand-new track called For­ev­er Held on Domi­no Records. A full orches­tral piece writ­ten by Hop­kins with string arrange­ments by Óla­fur Arnalds, it’s an emo­tive and deeply peace­ful piece of cin­e­mat­ic music which touch­es on “themes of our Earth and its con­text with­in space”.  In com­mon with many of Hop­kins’ com­po­si­tions, For­ev­er Held calms the…

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W H Lung press shot
Oct 18

W. H. Lung unveils album Every Inch of Earth Pulsates

Some bands are meant to be seen live and W H Lung is right up there. The ener­gy that bounces from stage to crowd and back again is elec­tric, espe­cial­ly with dynam­ic and expres­sive front man Jo Evans prowl­ing the stage. For their third album, Every Inch of Earth Pul­sates, it’s that live expe­ri­ence that…

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My Midnight Heart press shot
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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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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art Garfunkel and son
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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