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Festival News: Pssst, Wanna Be A Rock Star? – Applications Now Open For Grass Roots Artists To Play Tramlines Festival

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Track: Sergeant BuzFuz – Theresa McKee, plus new album news

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Live Review: Matt Berry and The Maypoles / Xylaroo – The Foundry, 26.10.2016

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We’ve had something of a journey, me and Gregory, not that he’s any the wiser to it of course. I mused over it as his rich baritone poured over me in Sheffield City Hall, pinned by the very force of it to my seat. This is not the jazz-lite singer I had assumed on first …

Arctic Monkeys return with their sixth album, entitled ‘Tranquility Base Hotel & Casino’ on Friday the 11th of May 2018.  Produced by James Ford and Alex Turner, the album was recorded in Los Angeles, Paris and London. Their first release since 2013’s ‘AM’ finds the band intent on continuing to explore new musical terrain with …

Idle Ross

I meet with up and coming Sheffield band Idle Ross’s front man Ross Green in Sheffield’s Forum ahead of the launch of the band’s debut single. Over close to three quarters of an hour we chat about the band’s influences, music, interrelationships and our shared history. [Disclaimer – I knew Ross of old, having taught …

Idle Ross

Idle Ross are an exciting new band tearing up the Sheffield music scene after only a few months together and a handful of intimate gigs around the city, but now Ross, Charlie, Spen and Joel are releasing their debut track “Into the Thick of it” and it’s a stormer. Inspired musically and stylistically as a …

Tramlines Festival have a launched a competition to name their second stage at the new location of Hillsborough Park, here in Sheffield – the spiritual home of Backseat Mafia. This is the first time in the history of the festival that the public have been invited to name a stage, all entrants will also be …

Poor Rennie Sparks. Snowed in the previous day at a carvery somewhere outside Barnsley, only to find that the rearranged gig was in Britain’s coldest venue. She shuffled onstage a good 15 minutes ahead of Brett and the others, to plug in an electric heater and stand folornly defrosting in her emergency purchase Asda coat …

Sticky Sweet is the debut EP from Sheffield four-piece Before Breakfast, combining their strong vocal harmonies and soaring classical influences to create something passionate, honest, and vulnerable. The EP opens with its title track, immediately capturing your imagination with exquisite harmonies and bewitching lyrics. The pace is slow and steady as it takes you on …

Located at Sheffield’s Hillsborough Park for its celebratory 10th year, the first Tramlines lineup announcement unveils headliners Stereophonics, Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds and Craig David’s TS5 PLUS Blossoms, De La Soul, Jake Bugg, Reverend And The Makers, Stefflon Don, The Sherlocks, Mabel, The Magic Gang, Coasts, Pale Waves, Gengahr, Naaz, Mullally, Stereo Honey, Mr …

Out on February 9th via Leftwing & Kody’s Lost Audio imprint is the new four-track EP from Sheffield producer Cloonee, Sneakers. It comes on the back of last years releases through Elrow Music, which landed him straight into the Beatport Top 10. From the EP, we’re delighted to be able to premiere Rotate. It’s this …

High Hazels BW

If you like your music full of gorgeous vocals, shimmering guitars, plenty of reverb and with a sense of navigating the spaces between night and day, good and bad, and old and new then you’re in luck. Sheffield four-piece – High Hazels – are back with new single ‘Days of No One’, their first with …