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News: Twisterella Announce Special 10 Year Anniversary Edition Of Award Winning Middlesbrough Music Festival
Award-winning Middlesbrough music festival Twisterella have announced their return with a special 10 year anniversary celebration on Saturday October 12th 2024, and have shared the first names set to perform at this year’s event. Leading the much-loved Teesside festival’s announcement are Belfast post-punk trio Chalk, noisy Norwegians Pom Poko, and Durham’s indie-pop favourites Martha, along with an impressive supporting cast of …
Track: A Swift Farewell are ‘Out In The Storm’ – a new thundering pop punk anthem
‘Out In The Storm’ marks the return of Eora/Sydney trio A Swift Farewell with another thunderous pop punk blast that eviscerates the ears and sets the pulse racing. With a hint of humour and self-deprecation, the song ebbs and flows through various moods bookended by an epic and very loud chorus. The band says of …
Premiere: Kitschen Boy are in their ‘Happy Place’ – a bright sparkling world of exuberant pop, with tour news.
We are pleased to give you an early listen to the joyous new single ‘Happy Place’ from Melbourne’s Kitschen Boy before its release tomorrow. ‘Happy Place’ is a bright jangling track that soars on an indelible melody with its scaling chorus and a brilliance that reminds me of eighties pop from bands like Haircut 100. …
Track: Empathy Test’s Isaac Howlett releases debut solo single ‘House of Cards’ – a shimmering crystalline shard of pure pop, with tour ahead.
Empathy Test have always delivered a delicious eighties infused brand of synth pop that has seen them garnered a massive following. Now, enigmatic frontman Isaac Howlett has released his debut solo single ‘House of Cards’, and it is an epic, cinematic track that positively shimmers with a glacial edge. Celestial synths etch the horizons above …
Track/Video: Meet Lilas’ Transcendent And Ethereal ‘Strangers’
For fans of Bon Iver and Matt Corby, Eora/Sydney band Lilas have returned with their enchanting single ‘Strangers’, a deeply expressive and introspective piece marked with a powerfully cathartic quality. Opening with folk-infused instrumentation, the track is filled with dreamy ambience in an expansive soundscape, while the lead vocal of Solomon Steele carries an introspective …
News: Cigarettes After Sex announce new album ‘X’s’ and a massive world tour, with the achingly beautiful single ‘Tejano Blue’ out today.
The iconic Cigarettes After Sex have made a monumental announcement coupling news of an album entitled ‘X’s’ due for release on 12 July 2024 through Partisan Records, as well as a massive world stadium tour covering just about every corner of the world. The news comes as the band releases a single from the new …
Track/Video: Multi-instrumentalist/producer Forest Law returns with the psych-infused global grooves of ‘Ooo,I’ ahead of a summer album.
To sum up multi-instrumentalist/producer Forest Law’s journey to this point as “Essex born, now London based” only hints at his musical story so far. Coming through Giles Peterson’s ‘Future Bubblers ‘artists’ development programme, earning a Brownswood EP release in 2020, being a key member of Esa Williams Afro-Synth Band then taking up an extended residency …
Live Review: FIZZ – Project House, Leeds. 21.02.24
It would feel like an easy cliché to talk about this show as “bubbly”, “effervescent” but really they are the right adjectives for the particular brand of joyful, chaotic circus that is FIZZ’s headline tour. The lights shimmer across giant lollipops as a countdown takes us through 4 stages to the band’s arrival before FIZZ …
News: Fred Again and Again and Again – Surprise Arena Tour of Australia Announced
Fred Again is set to electrify Australia with an exhilarating arena tour, bringing his dynamic beats back down under!
News: Arctangent Festival Announces More Bands For 2024 Event
In its 10th year this summer, the brilliant and award winning ArcTanGent Festival has once again well and truly delivered for its loyal, amazing audience. Following on from last months HUGE band announcement, today the summer event can reveal its final collection of acts playing in 2024. Heading up this announcement are one of the worlds greatest …