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Live Review: Sprints – Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh 26.10.2021

Sneaky Petes is a gem in Edinburgh. An independent music venue with capacity 100, and, on this particular Tuesday night at the end of October, Dublin’s Sprints are playing. First onstage is local band Volka in support. Rock grunge…

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News: Lamb Of God postpone UK headline tour until late 2022

LAMB OF GOD regret to confirm that due to restrictions in various territories, they have had to postpone their intended ‘State Of Unrest’ UK headline tour until late 2022. LAMB OF…

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Album Review: Chelsea Carmichael – The River Doesn’t Like Strangers

Engineered at London’s iconic RAK studios by Will Purton and recorded with Eddie Hick (Sons of Kemet), Dave Okumu (The Invisible) and Tom Herbert (The Invisible; Polar Bear), The River…

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Feature: A Buyer’s Guide to DEVO

Devo is a band that seems destined to be eternally misunderstood, probably because of multi-faceted elements in the pot. Many adjectives and nouns spring forth – humorous, novelty, plastic, comedy, but…

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Film Review: Speer Goes to Hollywood

Of all the senior figures in the Nazi Party, Albert Speer was perhaps the most interesting. Hitler’s architect, he was entrusted with a huge programme of works to rebuild and…

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See: Indie pop supergroup Swansea Sound release new video for Rock N Roll Void

Out on November 19th is the debut – Live at the Rum Puncheon, from indie pop supergroup Swansea Sound, aka Hue Williams alongside Pooh Sticks singing partner Amelia Fletcher (ex-Talulah…

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See: Ghost Woman drops some spectral, brooding garage in time for Hallowe’en with ‘Do You’

ALL HALLOWS’ EVE beckons, yer common or garden Hallowe’en: the evening when spirits roam abroad as the year tips towards dark and the good and wary and chaste huddle round…

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See: The enigmatic ANIQO drops the crisp darkwave of ‘Fear’ in time for the Hallowe’en shadows

ANIQO is the enticing, mist-wreathed musical incarnation of Berlin singer and poet Anita Goß, who’s slinking through the shadows in this most supernatural of months with the crisp darkwave of “Fear”,…

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Track: Bonobo releases atmospheric new single ‘Tides’ featuring Jamila Woods: ‘Fragments’ LP out January 2022

After the long-awaited announcement of new album Fragments, Bonobo (aka Simon Green) has released single Tides featuring Chicago singer, songwriter and poet, Jamila Woods. Bonobo will also be headlining 3…

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Track: John Thayer explores percussive ambience and field recordings on the beautiful ‘Kites’

NEW YORK percussionist, audio engineer and all-round musical polymath John Thayer, fresh from two collaborative, cassette-only albums last year – Untangling The Ghost, on which he sparred with reeds player…

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Live Review: Sprints – Sneaky Pete’s, Edinburgh 26.10.2021

News: Lamb Of God postpone UK headline tour until late 2022

Album Review: Chelsea Carmichael – The River Doesn’t Like Strangers

Feature: A Buyer’s Guide to DEVO

Film Review: Speer Goes to Hollywood

See: Indie pop supergroup Swansea Sound release new video for Rock N Roll Void

See: Ghost Woman drops some spectral, brooding garage in time for Hallowe’en with ‘Do You’

See: The enigmatic ANIQO drops the crisp darkwave of ‘Fear’ in time for the Hallowe’en shadows

Track: Bonobo releases atmospheric new single ‘Tides’ featuring Jamila Woods: ‘Fragments’ LP out January 2022

Track: John Thayer explores percussive ambience and field recordings on the beautiful ‘Kites’