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Album Review: The Jesus and Mary Chain reveal their stunning ‘Glasgow Eyes’ – an intoxicating mix of swagger and attitude with just a hint of reflection.

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Music New: The Breeders announce 30th Anniversary UK Tour of Last Splash LP

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Album Review: The Fall – The Real New Fall LP (Formerly Country On The Click) 20th anniversary reissue

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Following a compulsion to write songs, Wild Cat Strike frontman Daniel ‘God Damn’ Byrom borrowed a Tascam 8-track tape recorder, and recorded his new EP ‘Live from Dead Tuesday’s’, using an old Ampex mic, along with a host of second-hand instruments, including his beloved J. Busilacchio electric reef organ. It’s out on Small Pond on …

There is a cool and assured swagger to ‘Lime’, the new track by Little Suspicions, that gives it a bright and fresh vigour. The attendant element of theatricality – crooning vocals, a kind of sixties gloss to the thundering reverb-soaked guitars, sweeping strings and doo-wop backing vocals – gives this track an indelible sheen. Of …

Maxïmo Park’s have shared news of an exclusive online live-streamed show to celebrate the release of the album ‘Nature Always Wins’ via Prolifica Inc. The stream will take place on Saturday March 6th, live from the Riverside, Newcastle. The band will play songs from the new album live for the very first time, as well as …

Singer, songwriter and author Jehnny Beth has unveiled the music video for her latest single “French Countryside”, taken from critically acclaimed debut solo album To Love Is To Live. Surrounded by heartbreak in the form of extended piano lines and aching strings, Jehnny Beth is at her most circumspect with the beautifully melancholy French Countryside. …

TWO OF the country’s most talented artists being Rosie Alena and Morgan Simpson of black midi have teamed up and shared a wonderful cover of The Carpenters’ “We’ve Only Just Begun”, In support of the charity, the Music Venue Trust. A song described by the pair as close to their hearts, Rosie Alena’s and Morgan …

AMELIA FLETCHER and Rob Pursey: a marriage of minds and music who’ve kept those of us who love love loved the C86 guitar pop sound so well musically fed down the years. They forged out of the Talulah Gosh era together with Heavenly, Tender Trap, Marine Research; these days they’re just as busy, working together …

YOU CAN sum up Manchester’s Lindsay Munroe succinctly, thus: wow, that voice. Yours truly remembers dropping their spoon into my metaphorical cornflakes, jaw agape, as I first bathed in Lindsay’s track “River” from last summer, a voice tough and deep and melodic; “like Micah P Hinson,” I said, “her physicality belies the depth and power …

South London trio Holy Springs, have shared a new track in the form of – ‘If I Had A Reason’. Read our review of their EP Camera released last year here An ode to the 80s with the tracks brooding almost mysterious start, with drawn-out chords that grabs hold from the start. The track shimmers …

‘Lost Animals’ by Irish artist A. Smyth has an intriguing mix of acoustic and electronic instrumentation that creates a delicate fusion between a folk songwriting tradition and more rugged indie rock roots. The golden thread throughout, though, is an ear for the sweetest of melodies and an indelible melancholia that permeates every track. The result …

Western Australian band Eskimo Joe are veritable and venerable indie giants in the Australian music scene, and it is great to see them back after a hiatus, firstly with single ‘Say Something’ last year and now with a follow up, ’99 Ways’. They have also announced news of an Australia-wide tour playing their first two …