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News: Soundcrash and DJ Yoda announce Halloween night at Rich Mix, 31.10.15

This Halloween, get ready for the scariest (and possibly grooviest – do people still say groovy?) party around as Soundcloud and celebrated DJ, DJ Yoda take over the performance space…

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Track: Annabelle’s Curse – Brother in Arms

Brother in Arms, the new single from Virgina five piece Annabelle’s Curse, immediately has this warm fuzzy indie-folk feeling about it. Maybe its the bass, that rumbles along underneath everything,…

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Track: Cheatahs – Signs to Lorelei, plus November tour dates

We fell for the gritty shoegaze of London quartet Cheatahs with their 2014 self-titled debut, more so with the follow up ‘Sunne’ and ‘Murasaki’ EP’s so we’re delighted that they’re…

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Album Review: Nohno – Longitude and Latitude

As a member of revered Sheffield experimentalists Clock DVA, Dean Dennis cut his electronic chops a long time ago. Seems that yearning to create hasn’t left him, and judging by…

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Album Review: McCarthy – I am a Wallet (reissue)

Trust me, there was a time before you’re average indie band shied away from politics, because it might affect their ‘careers’. Today it seems that more bands are worried about…

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See: Guides reveal video for “Pictures on Pictures”

Taken from the recently released EP Abstract Mind, comes a new video for the track Pictures on Pictures by Los Angeles post rockers Guides. The song itself has this fizzing,…

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Track: Ringo Deathstarr – Guilt

Austin shoegaze trio Ringo Deathstarr return with a new album and a fuller, more mature sound – With the band saying “We have never spent as much time on any…

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Track: Roots Manuva – Don’t Breathe Out

Who are we to comment on the God/forefather of UK Hip-Hop, Roots Manuva’s latest single Don’t Breathe Out, when he does it so eruditely himself, saying “Lyrical rogue values in…

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News: Ruts DC announce Psychic Attack UK tour for October

Legendary punk band Ruts DC have announced a run of tour dates across the UK in October, including a night at the Jazz Cafe in London. Now consisting of two…

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Track: HECK – The Breakers

Heck, the band formerly known as Baby Godzilla, are back with a new single ‘The Breakers’. The Nottingham based purveyors of noise’s new single drops on October 30th via Npag…

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