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Live Review: Tramlines 2015: Main Stage – 24.7.15 including Charlatans gallery
Tramlines 2015 style kicked off on Friday 24th July this year, and we took a stroll down to the new Main Stage, now situated in Ponderosa Park, a little out of the centre and away from its home of the last six years, Devonshire Green. As it was, the ten minute stroll from the city …
News: We preview Reverence Valada Festival 2015
Tomorrow starts one of the most novel and exciting music events happening in Portugal at the moment, Reverence Valada Festival. After last year’s excellent first edition of the festival, expectations have been overcome with this year’s more ecclectic but equally fresh line up of artists who will be performing on the 27th, the 28th and …
Track: Julia Holter – Sea Calls Me Home
Ahead of the release of her fourth album, Have you in My Wilderness, Los Angeles based singer songwriter Julia Holter has shown a second glimpse of the new record in the shape of a song, Sea Calls Me Home. The track, which Holter describes as being “about moving away from things that trap you, the …
Track: Squeeze – Happy Days, plus new album details
With the exception of Then Jericho (no, I don’t expect you to remember) the only band of any note that I can remember playing in the close vicinity during my earlier teenage years was Squeeze. Purveyors of pop at its most perfect for some time even at that juncture, the band had found its way …
Track: The Enemy – It’s Automatic
Despite still being in their (admittedly late) twenties, it seems the enemy have been around forever. In fact, their multiple platinum debut album actually reached number one back in 2007. Sad they prepare for the release of album number four, It’s Automatic, out via Warner Records this coming October, the band are ready for a …
Album Review: Yo La Tengo – Stuff Like That There
In the scheme of things, I have to be honest and say I’d prefer a new Yo La Tengo album filled with original songs. That’s just how I feel. Sorry Ira, James, and Georgia. I’d much rather hear newly-penned, original tunes coming out of the YLT camp any day of the week over covers. But …
News: Universal to reissue All About Eve’s first two albums
I think I just felt, deep in the very bottom of my heart, a little jump. It’s been buried there for a good amount of years, but just the mention of All About Eve made it jump. At first, at least for me and All About Eve, it was Julianne Regan, the beautiful, alluring singer …
Track: Blonde Summer – Blazed
Los Angeles four piece Blonde Summer have released their new EP Paradise, and have been gaining attention with their sun drenched stoner rock, which nods to the likes of Tame Impala and their ilk. From the EP take a listen to lead track Blazed, which right from the off has this carefree swagger about it. …
Exclusive: The Half Earth records session track ‘The Balance’ for Backseat Mafia
If you’ve not heard of The Half Earth, essentially the project of Blackpool born, Sheffield based artist Conor Stephenson, then your surely about to. He’s been making achingly beautiful songs that have caught the attention of not only the movers and shakers in the music press but also of woman of the moment Soak, who’s …
Live Review: Sex Witch at Green Man Festival 22.08.15
There had been much curiosity surrounding the identity of the mystery guests who were booked in the Saturday evening of Green Man festival. Names had been thrown around, but no one really knew for certain. With the lack of internet in the Brecon Beacons, it remained to be seen who would the big name would …