With just one week to go until Liverpool’s newest boutique festival HOPE & GLORY takes over the city centre, the festival have announce more additions and surprises to the bill, taking place across the weekend of the 4th, 5th and 6th of August. Alongside the previously announced Black Grape, the first 1,200...
Dignan Porch have put together a stunning new animated video for ‘Golden Beak’. Inspired by the song’s surreal, dreamlike lyrics, the video tells the tale of two brothers who undertake a strange and perilous journey and was directed by the band’s keyboard player Hayley Akins and a few of her animator mates....
Soft Fangs has shared his new single, 'Elephant Girl', taken from forthcoming sophomore album, Fractures out 1st September on Disposable America. Gold Flake Paint premiered 'Elephant Girl' calling it "a gorgeous haze of a track, crafting a half-dream shadowiness that recalls Sparklehorse in his most linear form and balancing just the right amount...
The Shacklewell Arms continues its run of stonking free gigs with a Thursday-night triple-header. LA experimental duo Wreck and Reference round out the night with their unique blend of introspective metal, sounding raw and intelligent through a caustic mix of samples, synthesisers and drums. Schlocky support comes from the cloak-shrouded,...
Following the release of their acclaimed debut Citadel in 2015, Memnon Sa return with Lemurian Dawn, a cosmic journey through space, time and myth. The guitar driven sound of Citadel has been replaced here by a myriad of analog synthesisers, ancient world instruments, throat singing and strings. Lemurian Dawn channels...
Today Lomelda, who toured the UK earlier this year as support to Pinegrove, has released "Interstate Vision," the lead single from her upcoming album, Thx. Stereogum, who premiered the track and named Lomelda a Band To Watch, are saying that the track is "rooted in folk music in a way...
UK festivals are overwhelmingly more popular than overseas festivals, according to a new survey. Nearly half (50%) of people say they prefer UK festivals, compared to just 8% who say they prefer to get their festival fix abroad, The survey of festival-goers, conducted by events and ticketing agent, Skiddle, puts to bed the rumour that overseas festivals such as Tomorrowland in Belgium and...
Protomartyr have released the first single, and indeed first track, from their upcoming album. ‘A Private Understanding’ is the opener for their fourth full-length, and was pegged as the album's opening statement the second it was finished. At once beautiful and brutal, it mutates from drum-led oddity to unlikely anthem,...
Bleakender III @The Shacklewell Arms 7.7.17 Last weekend saw Night Terror's third edition of their Bleakender events, boasting a range of underground acts over three nights in the cosy confines of the Shacklewell Arms' gig room. The events are always free, always packed and always loud as all hell. TLE...