Music
Track: Enyang Ha – Plastic Run
The debut release on Visitant – the new imprint announced by Phantom Limb as a means to introduce people to electronic producers from across the globe, is a split release featuring South Korea’s Enyang Ha and Mexico’s Luz González Torres aka Damian Licht, and is out on March 13th on 12” vinyl. Enyang Ha has …
News: Thee Hypnotics release tour details including full supporting bill
Thee Hypnotics have confirmed the full supporting bill for their upcoming UK and European tour. In addition to topping the bill at the Fuzzville Festival in Alicante in Spain, the legendary testifiers will be bringing their devastating live show to Birmingham, Leeds, London, Ramsgate, Southampton and Cardiff. Each date will have a different support act and adding to the ramalama are rockers Black Bombers (Birmingham), Teeside punk’n’rollers Johnny Seven (Leeds), downtuned desert …
News: OMD announce iconic Royal Albert Hall concert as part of 40th anniversary
Continuing to celebrate their anniversary in style, OMD have today announced that they return to the Royal Albert Hall for an extremely special concert on September 28th with tickets going on sale 6th March 2020 HERE. Set to be a totally unique night for all OMD fans, the evening will see them perform two stunning sets. Opening with …
News: Public Enemy issue statement that signals the end for Flavor Flav
Public Enemy have issued a statement following reports that long time MC Flavor Flav had been sacked over his political views. The statement denies this is the case, instead highlighting various misdemeanours over time, and suggests that the relationship is over between Flav and the band. The statement in full reads: Public Enemy did not …
Track: Squarepusher – ‘MIDI Sans Frontières’ (Avec Batterie) plus tour news
Tom Jenkinson, aka inventive and groundbreaking producer Squarepusher, follows up his recent 10th full length album Be Up a Hello, with a new EP Lamental, out on April 10th via Warp Records. From the EP he’s shared ‘MIDI Sans Frontières’, originally composed as a response to the EU referendum in 2016, and he’s released his …
See: Mr Ben & The Bens reveal video for Beast in the House
Ahead of the release of their new album, Life Drawing, out on July 10th via the ever brilliant Bella Union, one of our favourite Sheffield bands Mr Ben & the Bens have released a new video for the first single to be taken from the album, Beast In The House. The track, this elegiac three …
Track: Requin – ‘Rules That Won’t Be Broken’
Brisbane has always had a reputation for producing quirky ground-breaking indie music – think of The Go-Betweens and The Saints for starters or contemporaries like The Goon Sax and Elder. Requin, newly signed to 4000 Records (a mark of quality right there) is such a band. Their new single ‘Rules That Won’t Be Broken’ is …
Track: Jekyll – The Escapist plus EP News
Blackpool’s finest and one of our perennial favorites, Jekyll have just released a new single ‘The Escapist’ in anticipation of their newly announced EP, ‘The Whispering Gallery’, which will be released on Fierce Panda on 13th March 2020. ‘The Escapist’ continues to augment Jekyll’s clear and distinctive style – epic, vaulting choruses and sharp, incisive guitars underpinned …
LIVE: JEMMA FREEMAN AND THE COSMIC SOMETHING
Popped down to Basecamp in Middlesbrough on a Tuesday night for after hearing some good things about Jemma Freeman and her band. The night was put on by Art Mouse Promotions who focus on underrepresented and marginalised artists. Support came in the shape of Duck. Sheffield band who have just welcomed a new member in …
TRACK: STEPHEN MALKMUS – SHADOWBANNED
The main man of Pavement, Stephen Malkmus, has just released his third single from his third solo album “Traditional Techniques” due out March 6th on Domino. Shadowbanned is an eastern flavoured sea shanty with a hint of an early T rex. The use of call and response between the strings and woodwind create a hypnotic mash …