Support: IDestroy, Trillains, Newcastle13th March 2018.
Arh man I hate days like this, sitting in front of the computer trying to compose a witty, yet informative review of a band that you know simply won’t do them justice. I mean they are certainly cornering a niche market here, punk/metal Victorian comedy anyone? And I know several if not all of those words will put some people off, but oh they are glorious to behold, especially live. More »
Next year’s dates for the Bristol Show are Friday 22nd – Sunday 24th February 2019. The show is the UK’s largest consumer Hi-Fi and Home Cinema Exhibition and UK’s largest AV Industry Trade Show which is celebrating its 32nd Year in 2019.
John Scott pops along to The Caves in Edinburgh to see Paul Draper. More »
See the words New York, Drugs and Andy Warhol and you’re likely to come up with just one name, Lou Reed.
Dale Jonathan Perkins “Voice Without Words Parts 1-3 (Ishikawa) review and interview. More »
Having been suitably warmed up by support act Bright Light Bright Light, whose synth pop torch songs from his album Choreography are enthusiastically received by tonight’s sell out audience, there is a tangible thrill of anticipation as the lights dim and Erasure take to the stage. More »
London Astrobeat Orchestra are bringing their spectacular live show to venues across the UK over the next few months. Band leader and bassist Edd Bateman has brought together West Africa’s finest session musicians to form a group that fuses rhythmic influences from Senegal, Guinea Conakry, Mali, Cameroon and Congo with the music of legendary new wave pioneers Talking Heads.
The band put their dizzying spin on Talking Heads classics from albums such as Remain In Light, Speaking In Tongues and Fear Of Music to produce a simply unforgettable live experience.
As Hifi Pig’s John Scott said in his review of last year’s Edinburgh show , if London Astrobeat Orchestra are playing within a hundred miles of you, just go.
Dates announced so far:
1 March – The Prince Of Wales, Brixton, London
2 March – Bridport Arts Centre, Bridport
15 and 16 March – The Voodoo Rooms, Edinburgh
14 April – Colston Hall, Bristol
11 May – Colchester Arts Centre
22 June – Oran Mor, Glasgow
Tonight’s support act is a guy called Thabo. I assumed from his accent that he was American but when I checked out his website after the show I discovered that he was born in Zimbabwe and lives in…Huddersfield. Thabo’s songs are intelligent, tuneful and incredibly engaging. By the end of the first song he has the audience in the palm of his hand, much to his evident surprise and delight. He explains that when he opens shows he is usually only singing to the sound man and the security, as everyone else is still in the bar. Right now the hall is three quarters full and everyone here is giving him their full attention. On the evidence of tonight’s show, Thabo is a man to watch out for and I hope the next time I see him he will be headlining in his own right. More »
Seeking the overwhelming vibration of the genuine sound wave and its profound echo on the soul, Kenneth James Gibson has spent his career experimenting under a variety of aliases like as many brushstrokes to an ever polymorphic palette – successively releasing as [a]pendics.shuffle, Bell Gardens, Reverse Commuter, dubLoner, Kenneth James G., KJ Gibbs, Bal Cath, Eight Frozen Modulesg Falls’, Gibson returns with ‘In The Fields Of Nothing’, his second full-length delivery for the Cologne-based imprint. More »
BRIGHT LIGHT BRIGHT LIGHT’s album ‘Choreography’ has taken him on a whirlwind ride in the last year or so, and the journey gets even more exciting as Rod Thomas (aka BLBL) tours Europe, including the UK and Ireland, opening for his musical heroes ERASURE from January 29th. More »
Rebolledo’s YOU AND YOUR HIPPIE FRIENDS imprint grows its groove footprint on international dance floors with the full-length debut of GÜERO, the latest vinyl outing from the Hippie Dance sister label and also its first fully fledged album project. To attentive hippie friends, the artist name should ring a big, funky bell – one that sounds exactly like the cut “Convertible Ride” from the notorious “A Very Nice Combinado Volume Uno” 12” release. More »
‘I’ve always felt to stay true to my own musical interests. It’s hip to be square.’
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Legendary singer, songwriter, activist and Rock & Roll Hall of Fame inductee Joan Baez, will release a new album Whistle Down The Wind (Proper Records) on March 2 2018. Produced by three-time Grammy® Award winner Joe Henry and recorded over ten days of sessions in Los Angeles, Whistle Down The Wind gathers material by some of Baez’s favourite composers. More »
To turn away from a record deal with a large label in your teens takes guts – especially when the fight for opportunities of that kind are so far and few between for rising bands. More »
“Last November we sent the demo of this song to our dear friend and sound engineer Andrea Cajelli. We wanted his precious feedback because although we were proud of the song we were worried it didn’t sound “Peter Kernel” enough. More »
Surprise! A new Jeff Rosenstock record for 2018! More »
Esoteric Recordings are proud to announce the release of an official limited edition super deluxe boxed set celebrating fifty years of the legendary Procol Harum : Still There’ll Be More. This eight disc set comprises five CDs and three DVDs, of which the first three discs draw upon the key tracks from Procol Harum’s illustrious career. Disc four features the band’s legendary concert at the Hollywood Bowl on 21 September 1973 (with the Los Angeles Philharmonic Orchestra and the Roger Wagner Chorale), whilst disc five features a previously unreleased concert at the Bournemouth Winter Gardens on 17 March 1976. More »
I’m With Her, the band of Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O’Donovan, will release their full-length debut, See You Around, out February 16, 2018. More »
Varvara from Hamina, Finland have come a long way since the release of their previous album, ”Death Defying Tricks” in January 2016. The album got nothing but praise from the leading rock media world wide with its’ intriguing mix of aggressive garage and melodic rock sounds. More »
The return of DATAROCK is finally upon us: the Norwegian act have announced their long-awaited third album Face the Brutality with a few teases. “Ruffle Shuffle” is a memorable return for the synth act – hooky, stylishly constructed and impeccably produced. More »
Well look what we have here just in time for the festive period, it’s a live double CD and DVD set from veteran spacerockers Hawkwind. I’ll be absolutely honest and say that I pre-ordered this the Day Cherry Red announced its release…I’m a bit of a fan to say the least. More »
I’m With Her, the band of Sara Watkins, Sarah Jarosz, and Aoife O’Donovan, have announced the release of their full-length debut, See You Around, out February 16, 2018. “See You Around”, the title track from the album, is available everywhere, and today sees the emergence of a beautifully captured live video performance of the song. More »
Faces On TV have announced their upcoming album with the release of the brilliant first single to be taken from it, ‘The Image of Boy Wonder’. To celebrate, Faces On TV have released a mind-bending video for it which premiered at Gigwise. More »
The grime MC Afrikan Boy, real name Olushola Ajose, returns today with perhaps his strongest track yet in “Wot It Do”. The video premiered at The FADER, where he explained that the concept is about removing the lines from reality. “Everyone puts their reality out through various screens and we all crop out elements of things we don’t want to send out to the world,” he explained. “The concept grew from the expression to create something a little rough around the edges whilst still being smooth.” More »
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