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TRACK / NEWS: JIMMY EAT WORLD RELEASES COVER OF CROOKED FINGERS’ “CALL TO LOVE” FEAT. BETHANY COSENTINO

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NEWS: LITTLE MAN TATE TO REFORM FOR HOMECOMING GIG

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The four members of Warrington indie four piece Viola Beach have been killed in a car crash in Sweden, along with their manager. The incident happened in the early hours of Saturday morning, when the band – Kris Leonard, River Reeves, Tomas Lowe and Jack Dakin along with manager Craig Tarry were travelling back from …

Get your buckets and spades ready, because Backseat Mafia is going back to the seaside, only this time it’s going to be bigger and better!!! Backseat Mafia has once again been asked to take part in Scarborough’s Coastival festival – www.coastival.com – The festival runs from Friday 12th of February right through to the evening of Sunday …

Tramlines has become the biggest day on the calendar for Sheffield residents. Every year it seems to get bigger and better, and people from further afield are travelling North to be part of it. Last year’s festival brought legends such as Martha Reeves, The Charlatans and Basement Jaxx to the plate. quite an act to …

Brooklyn based shoegazers DIIV are gearing up to the release of their second album, Is The Is Are, a 17 song double album out this Friday (5th Feb) via Captured Tracks. Ahead of that, the follow up to critically acclaimed debut Oshin,they’ve announced a mammoth European tour this Spring taking in a handful of dates …

Scottish trio Fatherson have announced details of their new album Open Book, which will be released on 3rd June 2016. Their latest single ‘Lost Little Boys’ premiered on Huw Stephen’s Radio 1 programme this week, introducing fans to tales of friendship, growing up, and the band’s journey through the music industry. Fatherson have managed to …

There’s two ways of looking at it I suppose. Either that the waits nearly over, or alternatively the anticipations almost at boiling point. It’s those Last Shadow Puppets, ostensively Alex Turner and Miles Kane, and there second album that’s causing all the talk. Turns out ‘Everything you’ve come to expect’ is coming out on April …

Rosie Lowe is the latest what seems like an never ending production line of talented English singer/songwriters and on a wave of massive media hype she releases her debut album Control on February 19. The Devon-born musician co-produced the album with Dave Okumu, and her smart songwriting shows exactly why artists like Little Simz, The Invisible, Kwabs, Ady …

Journeys seems to be the thing that has inspired PJ Harvey to write her new album, The Hope Six Demolition Project, which comes out April 15th through Island Records. Recording for her ninth album took place at Somerset House, where, during her resisdency there, members of the public could view what was going on through …

The Smiths drummer Mike Joyce has donated some very rare signed vinyl to a special record fair that will help save Muse Music who lost their stock after floodwater ripped through Hebden Bridge on Boxing Day. Mike’s signed records form a unique retrospective of Britain’s greatest indie band that is just one of the star …

USM are embarking on a re-issue programme of some of Sonic Youth’s key albums as part of its ‘Back to Black’ series, all to be available for the first time on 180g vinyl, and with high quality downloads. First up, later this this month, (January 22nd) are ‘Experimental Jet Set, Trash and No Star’, ‘A …