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Live Music: Becky Hill confirmed for Hardwick Festival
Pop royalty Becky Hill is the first headliner confirmed for next year’s Hardwick festival in County Durham. Hardwick 2024 is gearing up for it’s 10th anniversary celebrations, and this is a great way to kick things off, with one of the most exciting music talents the UK has produced in a long time. You can …

News: Dawn & Prax Drop Captivating Single ‘When The Song Is Over’
Dawn & Prax, comprising Karim Benchekroun (24) and Hamza Ben Addou Idrissi (26), share the new single, ‘When The Song Is Over’. Emerging as a force to be reckoned with in the music industry, these Moroccan-born artists have achieved significant recognition, boasting releases on esteemed labels such as Selected, MrSuicideSheep, and Lowly, amassing over 5 …

News: Phoebe Coco Releases Captivating New EP ‘I Am Not A Machine’
London’s Phoebe Coco release her highly anticipated EP, ‘I Am Not A Machine’ – a captivating blend of organic and electronic sounds. To mark the release, Phoebe Coco performed a headline show at Saint Pancras Old Church, a venue which allowed the etherial atmosphere of her music to shine. Raised in the lush landscapes of …

News: Skies Behind Share Defiant New Single ‘I Love It’ from Highly Anticipated EP ‘The Spaces’
Cork alternative rockers, Skies Behind, share the explosive new single ‘I Love It’. Like a mix of Biffy Clyro and We Are Scientists, the track is led by the biting, yet refreshingly bright distorted guitar tones under the breathy lead vocals and driving drums. A defiant and hopeful anthem that packs punchy energy and some …

News: Beans are ‘Haunted’ with a fuzzy pysch-filled delight on announcement of new album ‘Boots N Cats’ for 2024.
Fronted by The Merlocs drummer, Matt Blach, Melbourne garage/psych band Beans have just released a new single ‘Haunted’ on news of the release of their new album ‘Boots N Cats’ in March 2024 through Fuzz Club. ‘Haunted’ is threaded with a fuzzy guitar riff spine and vast, cinematic instrumentation with distant vocals and a liquid …

Premiere: It’s exactly ‘What U Want’ – GRXCE exclusively unveils dynamic video for anthemic new single.
Eora/Sydney band GRXCE continue to produce the most combustive and expressive grunge pop around and their new single ‘What U Want’ is no exception. We are very proud therefore to give you an exclusive look at the the new video for the track. ‘What U Want’ is filled with a nonchalant swagger and and attitude, …

News: Geordie Walker from Killing Joke dies aged 64
Geordie Walker – Killing Joke @ Albert Hall Manchester 2022. Pic Credit Andi Callen Photography One of the most influential post-punk guitarists of his generation has died in Prague, just two days after suffering a stroke. One of the original members of Killing Joke, Kevin “Geordie” Walker was known for creating vast swathes of noise, …

Album Review: TONN3RR3 X BIKAYE – ‘It’s A Bomb’ : Legendary Congolese vocalist and Parisien dance floor agitators team up and knock out.
So let’s debate – what’s the holy trinity of seminal afro-electronic albums? Anything by Onyeabor would come into it, Konono No 1’s ‘Congotronics’ would be a contender, Manu’s ‘Electric Africa’ would have a look in… but possibly the first record on the list would be ‘Noir et Blanc’ by Zazou Bikaye from back in the …

Album Review : We Are Busy Bodies reissue three mid-seventies SA Jazz gems from sax supremos “Mankunku” and Makhalemele.
The irrepressible curators at We Are Busy Bodies continue to tap into the energised seventies South African jazz eco-system with three more illuminating re-issues in their significant As-shams archival series. For some time now WABB have worked in close collaboration with Johannesburg based As-shams (aka The Sun) label, bringing the historic imprint’s burgeoning back catalogue …