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Live review: The Snuts, Stirling Castle: a five-star, live-streamed show

THE SNUTS’ performance at Stirling Castle on March 26th was more than just a live stream, it was a work of art demonstrating everything the band stand for – marvellous…

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Premiere: Mick Dimitri releases new video for the slick ‘Take My Hand’

It’s a real rags to riches story, but Mick Dimitri got his big break whilst waiting tables for Ed Sheeran in 2018. After hitting it off, Mick opened for Ed…

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See: On-U Sound release archival New Age Steppers short films for ‘Radial Drill’ and ‘Fade Away’- the back catalogue’s been repressed and is available now

WITH On-U Sound recently making all of New Age Steppers’ back catalogue available once again on CD and LP, now seems a great time to reveal some other gems found…

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Track: Peace Flag Ensemble – ‘Human Pyramid’; Canadian improvisational jazz quintet drop a lovely, fluvial piece ahead of their debut album

LADIES and gentlemen of the weirder musical persuasion: introducing a new act to especially intrigue the weird jazzers among you, Peace Flag Ensemble, an experimental collective drawn from various points…

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Track: Sam Barnes of Boy Azooga releases beautiful new single, Wired World

Welsh composer, musician and songwriter Sam Barnes has released his new singles ‘Wired World’, on the Rose Parade Recording Co. Although it’s a stand-alone affair, it comes as q prequel…

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See: Tyne-James Organ shares an effervescent video for the glorious single ‘Sunday Suit’

I loved Tyne-James Organ‘s single ‘Sunday Suit’ – finding it to have a frenetic racing pace that is energising and buoyant. Organ’s mellifluous tones somehow combine a silk softness with after…

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Premiere: Japanese Television release surreal and enigmatic video for the mesmerising remix of ‘Moon Glider’ by International Teachers of Pop.

Earlier this month, psych rock band Japanese Television released an EP of remixes of their much lauded 2020 EP entitled ‘III‘. The band collaborated with UK producers James Lavelle’s UNKLE,…

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Track: heka signs to Balloon Machine and drops the smokey noir of ‘(a) wall’

A MULTIDISCIPLINARY artist by trade and by vocation, comfortable in any number of mediums, Heka is the sonic alias of Francesca Brierley, who’s just signed to the excellent Manchester-based independent…

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News: Tame Impala reveals short film on 10-Year Anniversary of ‘InnerSpeaker’

To mark the release of the InnerSpeaker 10 Year Anniversary Edition, Tame Impala, aka Kevin Parker reveals short film InnerSpeaker Memories. Wonderfully captured by director/photographer Matt Sav and edited by…

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Track: HANYA – ‘Lydia’: Rising Brighton shoegazers bring the power and the punch – they’ve announced an autumn tour, too

BRIGHTON shoegazing five-piece HANYA, whose lovely Sea Shoes EP – an eye-poppingly limited cassette release for hometown label Austerity we fell for here – have dropped a new single, the…

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Live review: The Snuts, Stirling Castle: a five-star, live-streamed show

Premiere: Mick Dimitri releases new video for the slick ‘Take My Hand’

See: On-U Sound release archival New Age Steppers short films for ‘Radial Drill’ and ‘Fade Away’- the back catalogue’s been repressed and is available now

Track: Peace Flag Ensemble – ‘Human Pyramid’; Canadian improvisational jazz quintet drop a lovely, fluvial piece ahead of their debut album

Track: Sam Barnes of Boy Azooga releases beautiful new single, Wired World

See: Tyne-James Organ shares an effervescent video for the glorious single ‘Sunday Suit’

Premiere: Japanese Television release surreal and enigmatic video for the mesmerising remix of ‘Moon Glider’ by International Teachers of Pop.

Track: heka signs to Balloon Machine and drops the smokey noir of ‘(a) wall’

News: Tame Impala reveals short film on 10-Year Anniversary of ‘InnerSpeaker’

Track: HANYA – ‘Lydia’: Rising Brighton shoegazers bring the power and the punch – they’ve announced an autumn tour, too