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News: Peter Hook & The Light Announce “Get Ready” UK Tour and Festival Dates for 2025

Peter Hook & The Light are set to embark on a special UK tour this April, performing New Order’s 2001 album Get Ready in full for the first time. The…

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News: RISING 2025 – Melbourne’s After-Dark Festival is Back and Bigger Than Ever

Beth Gibbons, Suki Waterhouse, Black Star: RISING Drops a Stacked Lineup

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Album Review: Courting – Lust For Life: Chaotic, bold, and relentlessly catchy

Liverpool’s Courting return with their third album, Lust for Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story’, out this Friday via…

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News: John Grant Announces UK & Ireland Tour, Set to Star in Ballet Adaptation of A Single Man

Following the success of The Art of The Lie, John Grant is set for a packed 2025. Currently touring Australia, with a US tour in April, Grant will also be…

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album review: benmont tench: the melancholy season.

This is an album of absolute luxury. Each track on ‘The Melancholy Season’ is decadent and opulent, the vocals from Tench are soothing and velvety throughout while the strings that…

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Track: Night Beats – Behind the Green Door; an alluring slice of psych infused rock

Night Beats’ Behind The Green Door is a hypnotic, psych-infused indie rock gem, effortlessly blending vintage rhythm & blues with a hint of theatrical flair. Buzzing guitar lines, sweet backing…

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Album Review: Constant Follower – The Smile You Send Out Returns To You; a beautiful, spacial, immersive album

Stephen McAll’s journey to The Smile You Send Out Returns To You is as moving as the music itself. A brutal attack in his teens left him with lasting head…

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album review: the wildhearts – satanic rites of the wildhearts

The Wildhearts are back with an absolute barnstormer of an album, ‘The Satanic Rites Of The Wildhearts’, and it is a belter. The album has it all and progresses through…

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live review: the wildhearts, jim jones allstars, dirt box disco. the leadmill, sheffield. 07/03/2025

Unfortunately due to an epic equipment failure I came away from tonight’s gig without any salvageable shots but, as the old saying goes, the show must go on. So sit…

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Track: Bible Club Unveil Title Track From Upcoming EP ‘Umbra’

Bristol-based post-punk outfit Bible Club release the title track from the upcoming EP Umbra due April 11th via Velvet Echoes. Launching straight into crunchy, pleasingly augments chord progression of the intertwining…

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News: Peter Hook & The Light Announce “Get Ready” UK Tour and Festival Dates for 2025

News: RISING 2025 – Melbourne’s After-Dark Festival is Back and Bigger Than Ever

Album Review: Courting – Lust For Life: Chaotic, bold, and relentlessly catchy

News: John Grant Announces UK & Ireland Tour, Set to Star in Ballet Adaptation of A Single Man

album review: benmont tench: the melancholy season.

Track: Night Beats – Behind the Green Door; an alluring slice of psych infused rock

Album Review: Constant Follower – The Smile You Send Out Returns To You; a beautiful, spacial, immersive album

album review: the wildhearts – satanic rites of the wildhearts

live review: the wildhearts, jim jones allstars, dirt box disco. the leadmill, sheffield. 07/03/2025

Track: Bible Club Unveil Title Track From Upcoming EP ‘Umbra’