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News: Handmade Festival announce second wave of bands for 2018

Last month, Handmade Festival announced the first wave of bands for the 2018 music programme, and now they are thrilled to announce the new line-up additions with the second wave…

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Track: Lucy Rose – All that Fear

Off the back of her recently released track End Up Here, Lucy Rose has released another track recorded during the sessions for her recent Something’s Changing LP, out now on…

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See: Hatchie releases new video for Sure, plus UK tour dates

Brisbane singer-songwriter Hatchie, aka Harriette Pilbeam, has released a new video in support of her single Sure. Its the first bloom of her new association with Heavenly Records and comes…

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Track: Datarock – Laugh in the face of Darkness

The long awaited return of Norwegian synth act Datarock is gathering pace. Ahead of their first album in nine years – Face the Brutality, out on March 9th on YAP…

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News: Thee Hypnotics reform ahead of Vinyl Anthology, announce European tour dates

A heavyweight vinyl anthology, including rare and unreleased material from 90s hell-raising rock’n’rollers Thee Hypnotics, is due out via Beggars Arkive, with an accompanying tour this April. Taking their cues…

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Album Review: Jim Ghedi – A Hymn for an Ancient Land

A Hymn for Ancient Land is not an album I could listen to while doing anything else. It would be like texting while taking a walk in a breath-taking landscape…

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Track: Peggy Gou – It Makes You Forget (Itgehane)

Following on from a spate of brilliant releases on labels such as Rekids, Phonica White and Technicolour, Korean-born, Berlin residing producer Peggy Gou is set to releaase her new EP,…

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See: Robert Plant Reveals new live video for Season’s Song

Following the release of his much lauded eleventh studio album Carry Fire, which debuted in the top three in the UK album Chart, Robert Plant has released a live recording…

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News: Trampolene announce April UK tour dates

Fresh from supporting Liam Gallagher on his triumphant sold out arena tour in December and releasing their debut album ‘Swansea To Hornsey’ (October), Welsh wonders TRAMPOLENE have announced a twelve-…

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See: James Blake releases new track / video for ‘If The Car Beside You Moves Ahead’, plus European tour dates

Thing with having your own Radio 1 Residency is it’s the ideal place to premiere your own material, which is exactly what James Blake did last night. It’s another surprise…

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