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Feature: Fin Greenall Provides A Track By Track Of Finks Highly Anticipated New Album ‘Beauty In Your Wake’ Which Is Out Now

From the wilds of intercontinental DJ-sets as a Ninja Tune original to nurturing the songwriting gifts of Amy Winehouse and on to becoming a teacher, producer, partner and father, Fin Greenall’s exploration of life and…

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Feature: Dancing On Tables Give Us A Track By Track Of Forthcoming Album ‘Colour In The Grey’

Scottish band Dancing On Tables were named as one of Variety Magazine’s ’10 Brits To Watch’, supporting Catfish and The Bottlemen’s on their arena tour, numerous festival appearances. They are set to release their…

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Feature: A Track By Track Of Tony Wright’s Beautifully Raw ‘The Anti Album’

This is a solo album so as for states of mind etc there was only one to deal with and I suppose like everyone else at that time (lockdown) it…

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Feature: We speak with Memes – One to Watch in 2022

Lets put aside the continuing uncertainty for live music due to the pandemic and instead celebrate fresh new music. Memes are amongst several bands looking to build on progress made…

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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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Soundtrack Of Our Lives: Patrick Pearson of LYR

If you heard last years brilliant Call In The Crash Team, no doubt you’ll be a fan of LYR, the band comprised of poet laureate Simon Armitage alongside producers Richard…

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Feature: Afternoon Bike Ride give us a track by track lowdown of their beautiful new self titled album.

We’ve got a bit doe eyed about the new album from Montreal based trio Afternoon Bike Ride, what with their gorgeous melodies, lo-fi aesthetic and sensitive backings, so when we…

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Scratch the Surface: Urusei Yatsura – We are Urusei Yatsura (1996, Ché Records)

If you long for those messy days of the mid-90s, where Glasgow seemed to be a melting pot of angular, noisey, and messy indie rock and roll and pop punk,…

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Feature: 10 years on – Dananananaykroyd on memories, the wall of cuddles, and Demi Lovato

The summer of 2011 was Dananananaykroyd’s last. The Scottish ‘fight-pop’ band had formed in 2006, armed with two drummers, two vocalists, and an entire arsenal of post-hardcore pop songs. Their…

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Feature: Supreme Joy give us an exclusive track by track run down of their new album, Joy

If you’re a fan of Cool Ghouls, one of the bands mainstays, Ryan Wong, has today released an album ‘Joy’ of his own, under the moniker Supreme Joy. Based partly…

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