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Melt Banana Announce UK Tour

With a career spanning 25 years, 11 albums and countless single releases, Tokyo noise rock band Melt-Banana return to the UK this October for what will be the band’s 11th tour of these shores. Originally forming within the Japanese…

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OMD to release special 40th anniversary box set ’Souvenir’ & greatest hits collection.

Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark (OMD) continue their 40th anniversary celebrations with the announcement of a career box set, ‘Souvenir’ and brand new greatest hits collection – out October 4th. The…

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See: Grey Hairs release new video for Piss Transgressor, plus tour dates

Taken from the up and coming album “Health & Social Care” via Gringo Records. Nottingham based Punk Lifers have taken a song that hits at the edge of why and…

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See: Harker release video for Dead Ends, announce European shows

Brighton based Melodic Punk/Indie rockers Harker are due to start a European tour in Sept with Magnapop with a taster of what is to come at a warm up gig…

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INTERVIEW: RUN INTO THE NIGHT

The indie/post punk Glasgow duo are back and with a new single on the way. Ahead of it’s upcoming release we caught up with the undefinable rock n roll mavericks.…

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Album Review: Press Club – Wasted Energy

Australian Garage Rock/Punk band Press club are set to release there 2nd studio album via Hassle Records on August 16th. Originating in Melbourne they have built up a reputation for…

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WIRE documentary ‘People In A Film’ in the works.

Wire are the definitive post-punk band. Now there’s going to be a documentary about them. Released in 1977, Wire’s debut album ‘Pink Flag’ was like nothing before it – 21 tracks of bold…

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FAD GADGET: The Best of… – vinyl reissue

Mute have announced a double silver-vinyl release of The Best of Fad Gadget, out on 6 September 2019. Available here for the first time on vinyl, part of the ongoing MUTE 4.0 (1978…

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65daysofstatic announce new album ‘replicr, 2019’

For a decade, 65daysofstatic could generally be found on the peripheries of any scene trying to claim them, headed in the opposite direction. From their immediately recognisable aesthetic of glitches…

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LIKE GIANTS ANNOUNCE FIRST SHOWS

Pop-punk 4 piece Like Giants have announced their first ever UK shows later starting later this month. Speaking about their first shows frontman Daniel Kai said “We’re so stoked to bring our high…

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