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Live Review: Nai Harvest / Best Friends / Pins – The Harley, Sheffield 24.04.2015

Friday night in Sheffield saw one of the most explosive, and certainly most popular, gigs The Harley has ever seen. First up were Pins, a female four-piece to be reckoned…

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Say Psych: Album Review – Keeper of the Dawn by Ancient River

At a time when every man and his bong can be said to be exploring the final frontier with cathedral reverb plastered all over their stoned guitar noodling, it is…

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New Music: Whoop-Szo release the post-metal of Mirror North

Guelph, Ontario. Maybe not quite internationally recognized as a musical hotbed, but in Canada it is well known as a centre for the non-conventional. Enter Whoop-Szo. Even for Guelph this…

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Album Review: Sonic Jesus – ‘Neither Virtue Nor Anger’

‘Neither Virtue Nor Anger’ by Sonic Jesus, is perhaps 2015’s most eagerly anticipated debut LP, certainly for those fortunate souls who take their music with more than just a pinch of…

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Live Review: Hands Off Gretel – Mine, Leeds 23.04.2015

Fast rising grunge band Hands Off Gretel are in Leeds tonight to play Move, Leeds traffic being what it is I arrive slightly late walking in during their song Be…

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Live Review: Lower Than Atlantis / We Are The Ocean / PVRIS – Manchester Academy 2, 14.04.2015

Openers Pvris brought a barrage of synth infected pop-rock tracks from their debut album White Noise (2014). Ironically starting out with Smoke, which quite literally was the only thing that…

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Album Review: Roisin Murphy – Hairless Toys

Roisin Murphy will release her third solo album ‘Hairless Toys’ on May 12th, but after nearly eight years since her second album “Overpowered’ reached number twenty in the UK album…

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News: I Am Kloot to play rare club gig in Hebden Bridge

Mercury Prize nominees I Am Kloot play a very rare club date at the Trades Club as part of the Hebden Bridge Arts Festival. Lead singer John Bramwell played a…

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Track: Spirit Catcher & Raxon ‘Remember To Forget’ Kindimmer’s Utopia Remix; available on free download

Free to the first 500 to snap it up, Audiojack’s Gruuv imprint offers Kindimmer’s Utopia Remix of Spirit Catcher & Raxon ‘Remember To Forget’ just ahead of the label return next week with ‘Superimposed’…

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Album review – Villagers – Darling Arithmetic

Villagers pulled off a unique double when their first two albums won Mercury Prize nominations and the good news for their fans is ‘Darling Arithmetic’ is the best yet. To…

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