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SEE: Belle and Sebastian share Collaborative fan project ‘Protecting the Hive’

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Brighton may be best known musically as an indie outpost but fizzing around the fringes there’s some potent R ‘n B meets garage meets hip-hop alchemy going on. Step up long-time pivots in the scene, Bristol raised, Iranian rapper/songwriter kavzad and wordsmith/poet/ grass roots music champion JED with intel about their sharp-edged debut project as …

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Should Bob Dylan have got the Nobel Prize for Literature? Of course not, he wasn’t a poet; as he famously said, he saw himself more as a song and dance man. And did Wordsworth, senses working overtime after a surfeit of daffodils, ever just scrawl awopbopaloobopalopbamboom across the page before hitting the laudanum? Of course …

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NYC-based artist Clara Joy introduces Breakdown, the first single from her forthcoming debut album, What We Have Now, out May 23rd via Shimmy-Disc. Accompanied by a striking new video, Breakdown is a deeply affecting piece—both musically and thematically—capturing a sense of longing, reflection, and unease. Led by delicate acoustic guitar, the song immediately draws listeners …

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A poet and an indie-pop duo walk into a studio, and what emerges is something quietly extraordinary. Brian Bilston’s knack for distilling modern life into witty, poignant verse meets The Catenary Wires’ hazy, emotive sound on “Alexa, What Is There To Know About Love?”—the first single from their upcoming album Sounds Made By Humans. The …

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Pan Amsterdam, the inventive alter ego of Leron Thomas, has unveiled Confines, the lead single and title track from his forthcoming album, set to release on May 23 through Heavenly Recordings. This track exemplifies his unique fusion of hip-hop, jazz, and electronic elements, creating a soundscape that’s both familiar and otherworldly. The song opens with …

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Sparks fly as @BobVylan make their triumphant return to Birmingham with the ‘Humble As The Sun’ tour

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Lancaster’s finest The Lovely Eggs brought their ‘Eggsistentialism’ tour to Birmingham on Bank Holiday Monday for an evening of punk, spoken word poetry and sing-a-long fun. Up first were Manchester 4 all female four piece ‘Loose Articles’ Taking to the stage surrounded by a blow up doll dressed in their merchandise and oozing with confidence …

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Music and poetry, poetry and music, the Montreal convened collective FYEAR show how potent this combination can be on this self-titled debut, out now via Constellation. Led by poet/novelist Kaie Kellough and composer/saxophonist Jason Sharp, FYEAR the ensemble has been evolving through a project-based approach for several years now culminating with the ambitious, multi-movement composition …

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So the presser says “FYEAR interrogates our present and future post-capitalist polycrisis“. Any creative project aiming to probe into that vortex would require scale, focus, finesse and integrity, which are exactly the qualities that this Montreal convened collective possess. Led by composer/ saxophonist Jason Sharp and poet/novelist Kaie Kellough, FYEAR have been sculpting their resonant …

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It was hard to believe there was anything going on at Bishops House at all when I arrived (admittedly, late- it being my first time there and estimating set times etc), with the 15th century house on the edge of a park in Sheffield shrouded in darkness and with no audible noise emanating from it. …

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