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News: Andy Bell announces his GLOK debut album proper; dive into the electro gleam of ‘Maintaining The Machine’

HAVING released a series of vinyl format singles, the Ever Decreasing Circles triptych, following his superb album from last autumn for Sonic Cathedral, The View From Halfway Down, and also…

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News: Hear a first track as Field Works announce a companion to the arboreally beautiful ‘Cedars’ entitled ‘Maples, Ash, And Oaks: Cedars Instrumentals’

BACK in spring we both reviewed and adored an album from Field Works: less a band, more a collective exploration of the various musics that cross over and find each…

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See: Adelaide’s Teenage Joans release a dynamic video for the effervescent single ‘Wine’, and announce Australian tour

Adelaide duo Teenage Joans mix a hard edge guitar drive with scaling choruses and exuberant melodies in their single ‘Wine’. Steeped in an unashamed Australian accent expressed through vocals that…

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News: As Coventry assumes the mantle of City of Culture, The Pop Group and Dennis Bovell are confirmed for a July live premiere of ‘Y Dub’, with a Mute release following

THE CRADLE of Two Tone, Coventry, is busy donning its finery as it assumes the mantle of UK City of Culture 2021; and none other than Terry Hall himself is…

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News: Colin Moulding (XTC) announces release of his first solo CD – the delightfully pastoral pop of ‘The Hardest Battle’

It’s been over 3 years since ex XTC singer/bass player Colin Moulding teamed up with ex-XTC drummer Terry Chambers under the moniker TC&I to record the brilliant EP ‘Great Aspirations’…

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News: Halestorm Announce Special ‘An Evening With’ Tour Dates

Hot on the heels of announcing their Nov/Dec 2021 US touring extravaganza with Evanescence, US rockers Halestorm are delighted to confirm new tour plans for the UK/Europe in Feb/Mar 2022. The shows…

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News: Metallica Celebrate The 30th Anniversary Of The Black Album; Hear Miley Cyrus’s Version Of Nothing Else Matters

Metallica marks the 30th anniversary of its self-titled fifth album — a/k/a The Black Album — with two landmark releases, both out September 10th on the band’s own Blackened Recordings:…

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News: Sarah Davachi announces an autumn album, ‘Antiphonals’; hear a first track, ‘Rushes Recede’

WHAT is a drone? Over the last decade it’s become a word associated with surveillance, voyeurism, secrecy, stealth and those tired sweeping aerial shots that plague every other film that…

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See: Absolutely Free use AI to teach a computer ‘How To Paint Clouds’ with synth-psych glimmer

THE CANADIAN psych trio of Matt King, Mike Claxton and Moshe Rozenberg, who trade in outer- and innerspace as Absolutely Free, have returned ready to scratch a seven-year psych itch; yep,…

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News: Manchester’s legendary Band on the Wall launches a singles club with the lush future soul of Mali Hayes’ ‘Forgive You’

A VENUE legendary across the North-West, with bands gracing its hallowed boards at least since a stage was installed 90 or so years ago (when it was The George &…

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