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News: EWAH and the Vision of Paradise storm back with announcement of new album ‘The Warning Birds’ and unveil the haunting single ‘Hole In The Sky’.

There has been a very long build up to the release of EWAH and the Vision of Paradise‘s (EVoP) second album, ‘The Warning Birds’, delayed by births, deaths and of…

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Live Review: Pale Waves – O2 Academy, Leicester 25.02.2022 Plus Gallery

The Leicester crowd are ready and raring to go on this cold Friday night. Starting with Bitters, we’re in for a strong female led night which is helped along by…

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Film Review: Huda’s Salon

Living, working and raising a family in a disputed territory has countless dangers, not least the instability caused by a fluctuating political landscape. Peril awaits round every corner, and you’re…

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Album review: Shane Parish – ‘Liverpool’: pulling sea shanties leftfield and forward, forward, ho! for a post-industrial, post-rock generation KICKERS

IF YOU don’t know Shane Parish and his oeuvre – and chances are, unless you’re a regular reader of Wire and the deeper corners of Pitchfork and suchlike, you possibly…

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Live Review: Crown the King / Light Grey – Upstairs, Whelans, Dublin 11.02.2022

The throng gathered in Whelans, Dublin tonight for a night of pop punk and a sold out show for headline act Crown the King, but first up are Galway band…

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Meet: Members of legendary psych/space-rock explorers Gong on their new live album Pulsing Signals

If you’re inclined toward weird and wonderful psychedelic explorations, you will undoubtedly be familiar with Gong. Since their proto-formation in 1967 with members of Soft Machine, they have been at…

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Track: Banji release new single ‘Chatterbox’ and video via [PIAS] Recordings

Utrecht indie-rock quartet Banji have released new single ‘Chatterbox‘ via [PIAS] Recordings. The four-piece have produced a stomping track, full of energy and with a wild reverb. There is an…

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Meet: The Clockworks on recording at Abbey Road studios, getting a manager during a pandemic, and that support slot with the Pixies in the USA…..

The Clockworks headlined a gig as part of Independent Venue Week at The Factory in Worthing on 2 Feb 2022 supported by Cheap Teeth and Niches. During that set they…

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Album review: Duncan Marquiss – ‘Wires Turned Sideways In Time’: Phantom Band guitarist conceives of an instrumental, pastoral motorik for a place yet to exist

FROM disastrous events that upend your world can sometimes come good things; sometimes, I’m no Pollyanna here. Fortunately for Duncan Marquiss, guitarist with Chemikal Underground’s The Phantom Band, a major…

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News: Mdou Moctar Releases Afrique Victime Digital Deluxe Edition

Matador will release a deluxe digital edition of Mdou Moctar’s ‘Afrique Victime’, which expands the album with nine previously unreleased songs, including the studio outtake, ‘Nakanegh Dich’. (Read our review here)…

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News: EWAH and the Vision of Paradise storm back with announcement of new album ‘The Warning Birds’ and unveil the haunting single ‘Hole In The Sky’.

Live Review: Pale Waves – O2 Academy, Leicester 25.02.2022 Plus Gallery

Film Review: Huda’s Salon

Album review: Shane Parish – ‘Liverpool’: pulling sea shanties leftfield and forward, forward, ho! for a post-industrial, post-rock generation KICKERS

Live Review: Crown the King / Light Grey – Upstairs, Whelans, Dublin 11.02.2022

Meet: Members of legendary psych/space-rock explorers Gong on their new live album Pulsing Signals

Track: Banji release new single ‘Chatterbox’ and video via [PIAS] Recordings

Meet: The Clockworks on recording at Abbey Road studios, getting a manager during a pandemic, and that support slot with the Pixies in the USA…..

Album review: Duncan Marquiss – ‘Wires Turned Sideways In Time’: Phantom Band guitarist conceives of an instrumental, pastoral motorik for a place yet to exist

News: Mdou Moctar Releases Afrique Victime Digital Deluxe Edition