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Up-and-coming singer Ella Eyre is undertaking her biggest tour yet this autumn, playing 13 dates across the UK and Ireland in October. Starting off on in Birmingham on 1 Oct, Ella will visit most of the big UK cities during the tour – Leeds, Newcastle, Glasgow, Manchester, Cardiff, Bristol, Sheffield etc… – and will also […]
Earlier this week BANKS announced a quick four-date tour of the UK in November, which will be the US-based singer’s first UK shows after her debut album Goddess comes out in September. With the release of her London EP last year, as well as recent single releases ‘Brain’, ‘Drowning’, ‘Goddess’ and ‘Beggin For Thread’, BANKS […]
Geeky rock stars is exactly what the music industry needs right now. Forget the posers in their skinny jeans and stupid hair-do’s. What we really need is rock stars who know how to reformat hard-drives and stuff. Kind of like The Big Bang Theory but with less lazy humour and more tunes. New Cambridge band […]
After leaving Kasabian back in 2006, guitarist Chris Karloff swapped his hometown of Leicester for the slightly more creative and interesting surroundings of New York. There, he hooked up with NYC musician Nick Forde and formed new musical project Black Onassis. The first Black Onassis album, called Desensitized, is due out on 23 September and […]
Exciting new Manchester post-punk-pop band PINS have released the video for their latest single ‘Get With Me’. Shot by the bands very own Lois Macdonald, the video has a decidedly retro/DIY feel. Check it out below: ‘Get With Me’ is taken from PINS’ debut album Girls Like Us, out 30 September on Bella Union. To […]
Following their last album Kingdom Of Rust in 2009, famed Manchester three-piece Doves went on what they called an ‘indefinite hiatus’. Lead singer Jimi Goodwin is well into a solo career, releasing his own album Odludek earlier this year and is currently busy on the festival circuit. Now Jez and Andy Williams, the two brothers […]
Simply streaming a new album online ahead of its official release date is so 2012 – and super-cool trailblazers AlunaGeorge are anything but 2012, so they’ve come up with a new way to stream their debut album Body Music. Starting at 12pm (BST) this Thursday (25 July), the duo will be streaming one song from […]
Bloc Party frontman Kele Okereke has announced today he will release a new solo album called Trick on 14 October. The new album, the follow-up to his 2010 solo effort The Boxer, is the first new music from the Bloc Party camp since their ‘Truth EP’ last year, and the first album since 2012’s Four. […]
Watch out Florence, Natasha Khan is back and means business! We’ve waited far too long for a new Bat For Lashes album, but happily it seems she has spent that time well – if lead single ‘Laura’ is anything to go by…. How good is that!? As well as the video for ‘Laura’, Bat For […]
Barely a day goes by without me getting wind of yet another promising new band hailing from Bristol. Not so long ago Seasfire caught my attention, now it’s Empty Pools – who are preparing to release this pair of infectious tunes as a double A side single in September: Cool eh? Hard to believe Empty […]