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Album Review: Kristin Hersh – Wyatt at the Coyote Palace
October 28th sees the release of the third book/album combination of Kristin Hersh’s career. The title, Wyatt at the Coyote Palace, is inpsired by her autistic son’s fascination with an abandoned building taken over by Coyote’s, and while the album features much of the confessional and personal songwriting that has littered her career, it’s not …
Album Review: Red Fang – Only Ghosts
I’ve been digging into the Red Fang discography for the last few days, ever since I picked up their newest album Only Ghosts on the always trusty Relapse Records. I have to say, with the exception of a few songs I’m not all that moved by these Portland stoner rockers. I’d heard the track “Cut …
Live Review: Teleman / Katie Pham & the Moonbathers, Queens Social Club, Sheffield, 21.10.2016
Teleman are having a great night. They’ve sold out the Queens Social Club in Sheffield alongside a number of other venues on their tour, including a few which have been upgraded in size due to popular demand. Here in Sheffield, the crowd are going wild, fervently singing along and even interrupting a mid-song pause with …
Past lives: 1959 – 2016. Pete Burns – A Tribute
Liverpool singer Pete Burns died of a heart attack on Sunday. He was 57. I first encountered Pete Burns around 1978. Me and my schoolmates would catch the bus to Liverpool every Saturday and blow our pocket money on 7” singles in Probe Records. Pete Burns served behind the counter; an explosion of black crimped …
See: Stornoway reveal new video for Night Drive / Announce farewell tour
After more than ten years of playing heartfelt, affecting indie/folk, Oxford quartet Stornoway are bowing out with an 11 date farewell tour, due to take place next February/March, beginning at the Sage in Gateshead on February 27th and ending with a hometown show at Oxford’s New Theatre on March 12th. It follows the success of …
News: Tom Chaplin heads out on 14 date UK & Ireland May tour
If you’ve checked out his new album, ‘The Wave’, and let’s face it, after debuting at number three in the UK Album Chart last Friday plenty of people have, pop/indie troubadour Tom Chaplin has announced a 14 date UK & Ireland tour, Starting at Cardiff, St David’s Hall on Saturday May 6th, and including a …
News: Kidney Thieves set for intimate shows in November
American Industrial Alt band Kidney Thieves fresh from the successful crowd funding of their fourth studio album The Mend, their first since Trypt0fanatic in 2010 (available in digital, CD and Vinyl formats here), are planning on a couple of intimate private shows in L.A this November. Free Dominguez and Bruce Somers who make up the …
See: Honeyblood share the video for ‘Sea Hearts’
As Halloween creeps closer, Honeyblood are getting into the spirit in the eerie video for ‘Sea Hearts’. ‘Sea Hearts’ is the catchy, fuzz-filled latest single from Honeyblood’s forthcoming second album ‘Babes Never Die’(out 4 November via Fat Cat Records) and the video for it is as feisty and alluring as the song. It is the …
Not Forgotten: Half Man Half Biscuit – And Some Fell on Stony Ground
Half Man Half Biscuit are one of those bands where if you’re a fan you either have, or want, everything they’ve ever recorded (a pristine copy of “No Regrets” still eludes me). By contrast if you’re not a fan then you’ll be baffled as to why such a stupidly named novelty act would inspire such …
Live Review: Justin Currie and the RSNO – Paisley Abbey 17 October 2016 Plus Gallery
Justin Currie, with the Royal Scottish National Orchestra, performed tracks from his solo albums and the Del Amitri back catalogue to a reverent congregation of fans and festival goers. A sold-out Paisley Abbey was the beautiful venue for this collaboration between orchestra and songwriter – now a well-established part of the Paisley Spree Festival programme. …