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News: From Hull to Texas to Hull. Life return for their biggest hometown show yet at the Welly Club
Following extensive plays on 6Music and Radio 1, LIFE just got back from Texas after smashing a couple of shows for SXSW like cowboys on cactus juice and they’re calling on all their “LED brothers and sisters” to join them for [POP] PARTY 2 at THE WELLY CLUB, Hull. In January last year the first …
News: Dan Croll announces new album Emerging Adulthood plus UK live dates
Following on from his lauded 2014 debut Sweet Disarray, Dan Croll has announced the follow up. Called Emerging Adulthood, it out on July 21st via Communion Records, and contains previous singles ‘One of Us’ and ‘Swim’ as well as the recent ‘Away from Today’. The album was recorded in Atlanta with producer Ben Allen, about …
Track: Aimee Mann – Patient Zero, plus album news
Aimee Mann has consistently delivered beautiful and thought provoking since her debut solo album ‘Whatever’. It’s hard to believe that was over twenty years ago, but it’s still a record that keeps popping to the surface again and again in my listening material, and still sounds as fresh as the day it was released. Much …
News: Jesus Jones announce announce first new album in 16 years
90’s indie/dance outfit Jesus Jones – perhaps best known for 1990’s global smash ‘Right Here, Right Now’ have announced their sixth album, and first in 16 years is to be released this coming June. The album, titled Passages, sees the band taking charge of their own destiny, after a period of coasting along. As singer …
See: Pond reveal video for Sweep Me off My Feet, plus European tour dates
Taken form their forthcoming album The Weather, out on May 5th via Marathon Artists, Australian psyche-pop quartet Pond have released a new video for current single ‘Sweep me off my feet’, and announced a run of UK and European tour dates over May and June. As with its predecessor ‘Man it feels like space again’, …
News: Shed Seven to release first new album in 16 years, plus December tour dates
Brit Pop five piece Shed Seven, who scored a handful of hit albums, as well as 16 top 40 singles in the heady 90s, have announced their first studio album in 16 years, alongside their biggest ever UK tour. Not details yet on the exact release, other than ‘later in the year’, but the band …
News: Belle & Sebastian to headline BBC 6 Music Festival in Glasgow
As the BBC 6 Music Festival prepares to make its Glasgow debut, local stars Belle & Sebastian are announced as headliners. As one of Glasgow’s most loved bands, it’s fitting that Belle & Sebastian are topping the bill on the last night of the BBC 6 Music Festival on Sunday 26 March at the O2 …
News: Car Seat Headrest announces Summer live UK dates
Seattle’s Will Toledo had a 2016 to remember. Recording as Car Seat headrest he had already recorded a handful of albums, but signing to Matador and releasing ‘Teens of Denial’ saw him rocket into a lot of music fans psyche, and earn plaudits and admiring glances at what became on of the most acclaimed albums …
News: The Cribs Announce 10 Year ‘Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever’ Anniversary Tour
This year, Wakefield’s finest exports The Cribs are celebrating ten years of their third album Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever, and to commemorate the occasion, the band are embarking on short run of UK dates in the spring. Men’s Needs, Women’s Needs, Whatever will be played for the first time ever in its entirety. It …
See: Honeyblood – ‘Babes Never Die’ plus UK tour dates
Honeyblood returned from their recent tours with plenty of material for the mini rockumentary that is the new video for ‘Babes Never Die’. Shot by a variety of photographers and fans, the latest video from the Glasgow two-piece of frontwoman Stina Tweeddale and drummer Cat Myers features live footage from their recent US and UK …