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Track: Fox Glove release the glittering alt-country of ’Roll On’

West Coast (Canada) trio, Fox Glove, give us a teaser from their upcoming new EP (Oct. 8th). The harmonies between the three singers are magical. This is alt country for…

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Peter Hook And The Light, Picturedrome, Holmfirth, 19.09.2015

Poised to commence his legal action against The Other Three, Peter Hook bestrides the legacies of two seminal bands like some kind of a COLOSSUS; Joy Division and New Order.…

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Meet: Kami Thompson from The Rails

Folk rockers The Rails are husband wife team James Walbourne and Kami Thompson who are back on the road promoting their critically acclaimed debut album Fair Warning. If Kami’s surname…

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Album Review: United Bible Studies – ‘So As To Preserve The Mystery’

In an effort to maintain a balanced sense of perspective, it is necessary to flambé ones objective juices, to periodically take a trip outside of what is often mistakenly referred…

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Backseat Mafia Podcast 007: Drusif

Podcast 7 comes from Drusif, a UK (Yorkshire) based DJ currently playing dub orientated tech house and techno. Influences include techno, tech house, breaks, drum & bass, psy-trance and progressive/deep…

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Live Review: St Etienne play Foxbase Alpha, Hebden Bridge Trades Club

They say if you can remember the sixties you weren’t there and the same is true for the rave generation of the nineties. Once they’d got back home from a…

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Album Review: The Underground Youth – ‘Haunted’

The Underground Youth return with yet another vinyl masterpiece, their latest triumph, in the shape of ‘Haunted’. Such is the buzz, for those in the know, around The Underground Youth –…

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Live Review: Reverence Festival, Valada Portugal 2015 – Day 3

“Sunrise Session Featuring 10000 Russos / Mugstar 04:40 – 06:00”! “Sunrise Session Featuring 10000 Russos / Mugstar 04:40 – 06:00”!! “Sunrise Session Featuring 10000 Russos / Mugstar 04:40 – 06:00”!!! If I…

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Album Review: Low — Ones and Sixes

Twenty-one years is a long time to be in a band. It’s quite a long time to be married. It’s a really, unbelievably long time to be married to someone…

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Film Review: Legend

“London in the 1960’s, everyone had a story about the Krays…” This first line of Legend harks back to Goodfellas’ infamous opener: “As far back as I can remember I always wanted…

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