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Feature: The Scaramanga Six give us a track by track insight into their new album Worthless Music

Out today is the new album, Worhtless Music, from Yorkshire art-rockers The Scaramanga Six, aka brothers Paul and Steven Morricone, alongside Julia Arnez and Gareth Champion. Their tenth album to…

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See: Guitarist Duncan Marquiss ventures into folk motorik with the seductive ‘Drivenhalle’

ELSEWHERE a very fine guitarist with The Phantom Band, Duncan Marquiss is stepping out into the world of solo instrumental guitar in the spring with an album for folk imprint…

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News: Constellation sign Kee Avil, who debuts with the burrowing, fracturing post-folk of ‘See my shadow’

MONTREAL’S Constellation, who’ve brought us so many great leftfield moments these past two decades from Godspeed You Black Emperor!, Fly Pan Am, Do Make Say Think and a host of…

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Film Review: The Advent Calendar

Physical disabilities have been used in genre cinema dating back to the silent era, but usually not in a good way. Traditionally, the ‘bad guy’ or ‘monster’ had some form…

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Track: Lastigband observes the heavens in the sweet lo-fi ‘tronica of ‘Galaxy’

RECORDIAU CAE GWYN RECORDS is one of those labels doing the good work; like Come Play With Me way, way east across Offa’s Dyke in Leeds, it’s a label fiercely…

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Track: bdrmm’s ‘Port’ gets some loving electro remix action from Working Men’s Club – come trance out

IT’S AN excellent, mouthwatering battle of two very cred, very excellent Yorkshire bands, duking it out. In the left corner, grapple fans, we have Hull’s bdrmm, the premier next now…

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Tallinn Black Nights Review: Other People

At the beginning of the twentieth century, musical theatre became increasingly popular with audiences who demanded light relief from the socio-political issues leading up to, and during, World War I.…

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Track: Josephine Sillars – ‘I’ll See You When I See You’: heartfelt songwriting from a rising Highlands talent

THE LATEST instalment in the singles club run by Leeds grassroots organisation Come Play With Me – the label, zine, promoter and all round caring body active on the West…

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Blu-ray Review: Le Samouraï

During the 1960s and 1970s, Alain Delon was one of the most iconic faces of European cinema. He made a string of eye-catching films with famous directors, including Antonioni (L’Eclisse),…

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Track: Tina and The Hams return to the fray with the epic and shimmering sounds of ‘Dorset Street’

With a wall of fuzzy, jangling guitars and arcing riffs, the new single from Melbourne’s Tina and the Hams is a powerful piece of indie rock with frayed edge interludes…

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Feature: The Scaramanga Six give us a track by track insight into their new album Worthless Music

See: Guitarist Duncan Marquiss ventures into folk motorik with the seductive ‘Drivenhalle’

News: Constellation sign Kee Avil, who debuts with the burrowing, fracturing post-folk of ‘See my shadow’

Film Review: The Advent Calendar

Track: Lastigband observes the heavens in the sweet lo-fi ‘tronica of ‘Galaxy’

Track: bdrmm’s ‘Port’ gets some loving electro remix action from Working Men’s Club – come trance out

Tallinn Black Nights Review: Other People

Track: Josephine Sillars – ‘I’ll See You When I See You’: heartfelt songwriting from a rising Highlands talent

Blu-ray Review: Le Samouraï

Track: Tina and The Hams return to the fray with the epic and shimmering sounds of ‘Dorset Street’