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News: Defected announce virtual festival this Friday
Defected Records has announced a series of digital activations offering its online community – the house music world’s largest at 5m+ – opportunities to engage with the brand and each other from the comfort of their own homes, following the postponement or cancellation of all live events in March and April due to the COVID-19 …
NEWS: THE DEARS – NEW ALBUM, SINGLE AND TOUR
Gloomy pop makers The Dears have announced a new album ‘Lovers Rock’ to hit the shelves 15th May via Dangerbird Records. They will be supporting this record with a tour this coming April. Lead single “The Worst In Us” gives us a teaser of things to come. Which is sounding pretty damn good. The track …
Track: Eye Flys – Guillotine
Following their ‘Context’ EP which was one of last year’s musical highlights for fans of the sort of noise-metal that Amphetamine Reptile would have put out back in the 90s, Eye Flys have released ‘Guillotine’, a teaser track from their full-length debut album ‘Tub of Lard’. Much like the Coup song of the same name, …
News: Saxon reschedule postponed UK tour dates for later in the year
Due to the current Covid-19 pandemic and public reaction to the spread of Coronavirus, Saxon have had to, with deep regret, postpone the three UK shows planned this month in Glasgow (March 27th), London (March 28th) & Manchester (March 29th). To keep the bands fans and everyone else involved with the shows safe at …
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News: The Fall release ‘Set of Ten’, box set of unreleased live recordings
Despite the sad death of founder and only constant in The Fall, Mark E. Smith, there is still a wealth of material to mine to keep Fall obsessives happy for, it seems, quite a long time yet. were an English post-punk band, formed in 1976 in Prestwich, Greater Manchester. They underwent many line-up changes, with …
News: Record Store Day postponed until June 20th
Due to concerns about the Coronavirus, Record Store day has been postponed until Saturday June 20th. The organisers have released a statement, as follows: Record Store Day is a worldwide event involving thousands of people and small businesses. In our discussions over the past few weeks, information came and changed daily, and then hourly, along with …
Say Psych: News: Bo Ningen sign to Alcopop! Records for fourth album & Share first track ‘B.C.’
Alcopop! Records have announced that they have signed London based Japanese alternative-rockers Bo Ningen and will release their fourth studio album Sudden Fictions in the Spring. To celebrate the signing, the band have revealed their new single ‘B.C.’ which comes from the forthcoming LP and it will be released on limited edition clear 7”. It …
Say Psych: Preview: PZYK 2020 16.05.2020
Following a nine-month gestation, the mysteriously monikered PZYK 2020 finally comes blinking into the daylight. The new incarnation – and ultimate realisation – of what was formerly known as Liverpool International Festival of Psychedelia, PZYK 2020 is a continuous, 16-hour immersive journey through sights and sounds of future psychedelia. What was previously a hedonistic marathon …
Track: DMA’S – Life Is A Game Of Changing (Orbital Remix)
DMA’s darkly melancholic ‘Life Is A Game of Changing’ has been remixed by iconic dance duo Orbital to create a slightly more ominous bubbling version of a great song. The bones of the vocals remain, dressed in something far more dance oriented and arctic in tone: Orbital said of the remix: It was great fun …