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Dec 9

Top albums, EPs & singles of 2024

This has been an exceptional year for new releases of all genres with perhaps a leaning towards shoegaze/dream-pop on this list. Bill Ryder-Jones got the year off to a great start with the inspired Iechyd Da while Father John Misty’s Mahashmashana slipped in as a late November closer and is perhaps my album of the year.…

Nov 8

Olivia

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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Robert Sterling @robertmsterling ·

10 Feb

I don’t want to connect my coffee machine to the wifi network. I don’t want to share the file with OneDrive. I don’t want to download an app to check my car’s fluid levels. I don’t want to scan a QR code to view the restaurant menu. I don’t want to let Google know my location…

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10 Feb

Feeling a bit gloomy, staring out of the kitchen window at weather misery when on comes... wait... a new track from Doves! Called Saint Teresa. Suddenly life is bloody wonderful @dovesmusicblog

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5 Feb

Supporting Independent Venue Week becomes more important every year as we are losing so many grassroots venues. Some photos of #IVW25 at @thetradesclub

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25 Jan

Not usually a show going person. But The Bowie Show @BowieShow was fantastic. Technical brilliance from the cast and an emotional experience

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22 Jan

One for the Calderdale diary - moody and intense Trystero 'krautrock, psych, electronics and pop' plus support act Marlene Ribeiro. @GoldenLionTod on 6th Feb

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Doves @dovesmusicblog ·

20 Jan

Join Doves and @chris_hawkins for three exclusive dates talking all things Doves and Constellations For The Lonely.
Manchester has now moved to YES. Tickets are selling fast - don't miss out!

Leave your burning questions in the comments 👇

https://doves.lnk.to/QAsSM

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TDC Tunes @tdctunes ·

17 Jan

Join us for Pie in the Sky - an evening of live electronic music and visuals at Walthamstow Trades Hall, London. 7pm-11pm Thursday 23rd Jan.

Free to Enter
Free to Leave
No Commitment.

Arriving by pie optional.

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9 Jan

Out tomorrow, this beautiful collection of traditional folk songs called Cold Blows the Wind. By Todmorden based musician Bridget Hayden and The Apparitions. Review here

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Top albums, EPs & singles of 2024

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