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Track: Smoke Fairies – Elevator, plus 7” / tour news
Following on from the release of their new, brilliant album ‘Darkness Brings The Wonder Home’, which has been received with critical claim virtually everywhere, Smoke Fairies have announced that current single ‘Elevator’ is to be released as a limited edition picture-disc 7” vinyl single on April 3rd. Elevator is on the grittier end of the …
News: Björk announces Björk Orchestral tour
After Björk’s most elaborate stage performance to date, ‘Cornucopia’, she announces today that she will embark on a new tour in 2020, ‘Björk Orchestral’. Unlike Cornucopia’s elaborate stage production, Björk orchestral will focus on Björk’s acoustic string arrangements of her works so far. Starting in Moscow on 2nd July before heading to Helsinki, Berlin, Paris, and Cheshire to headline the …
See: Harker release video for Dead Ends, announce European shows
Brighton based Melodic Punk/Indie rockers Harker are due to start a European tour in Sept with Magnapop with a taster of what is to come at a warm up gig in there home town of Brighton, AUGUST 10 – At the Edge of the Sea, Brighton w/ The Wedding Present.So with that in mind, maybe …
News: Catfish and the Bottlemen announce further Arena dates
Hot on the heels of their new album The Balance, Catfish and the Bottlemen have bowed to fan pressure (and ticket sales no less) and added a couple of extra Arena dates to their November tour, which sees them hit Scotland with dates at Aberdeen’s P&J Live on Thu 7 November 2019 and Glasgow’s SSE …
Track: Whitney – Giving Up, plus new album news
Chicago-based Whitney will release their sophomore album ‘Forever Turned Around’, on August 30th via Secretly Canadian. On the follow up to their much-beloved debut, 2016’s ‘Light Upon the Lake’, Ehrlich and Kakacek grapple with the anxiety and acceptance that time is limited and navigate questions of mortality, doubt, love, and friendship. Lead single ‘Giving Up’ …
Track: Boy & Bear return with new single ‘Hold Your Nerve’, plus tour news
Boy & Bear set their fanbase abuzz last month after teasing brand new music. Now, the wait is over with the band returning with a triumphant new single, Hold Your Nerve, their first new music since the release of 2015’s Limit of Love. After the most tumultuous period of the band’s lives both personally and …
See: The Snuts reveal video for All Your Friends, plus UK Tour news
The Snuts have today announced a nine date UK tour, kicking off mid-September after festival season, including the band’s biggest show outside of their home of Scotland at London’s Scala on October 22nd. This tour announcement follows the release of their debut single ‘All Your Friends’. They’ve revealed a new video for the track, this …
News: Primal Scream announce major UK and Ireland tour
The thing about Primal Scream is you never know where they might go next. When I first saw them, they hadn’t long released Sonic Flower Groove, but 4 years later they would be at the centre of indie dance, and then industrial, electronic, blues, indie rock. INvesting no recently released compilation ‘Maximum Rock ‘n’ Roll …
See: Wand release new video for Thin Air, announce European tour dates.
Taken from their recently released Laughing Matters album which came out in April via Drag City, Wand have released new visuals for the track Thin Air. The notoriously assiduous band, who’ve release an album a year for the last four years and have toured all over the world between times, have also announced new European …
Track: New Order – Sub-Culture (live) plus Manchester live concert album news
Indie legends New Order have announced that their gig from July 2017 that took place in Manchester’s Old Granada Studios (where Joy Division had made their television debut on Tony Wilson’s So It Goes programme) is going to be released on triple vinyl, double cd and download/stream on July 12th, titled ‘∑(No,12k,Lg,17Mif) New Order + …