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The BRIT and Ivor Novello award-winning duo’s first new studio album in six years sees Andy Bell and Vince Clarke...
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Australian singer-songwriter Courtney Barnett returns to Manchester after headlining BBC6 Music Festival earlier this year and embarking on a small...
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Away from the churn of the hype cycle and the gloss-riddled Crack magazine parasites, vital music is being made without permission or compromise, with a distinct refusal to entertain chart-chasing and industry-approved noise. Notes Of The Underground is the first bi-annual instalment of hand-picked, impossible to ignore releases that have...
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Kierkegaard wrote, “Repetition is and remains a transcendence” – Repetition (1843). Repetition is often mistaken for movement without progress, repeating...
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Manchester quartet Westside Cowboy have quickly carved out a distinct reputation as one of the UK’s most passion-filled authentic sounding...
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Nearly a decade since Natural Rebel, and over thirty decades since The Verve’s formation, Wigan-born singer songwriter Richard Ashcroft continues to present audiences across the world why his back-catalogue is one of the most celebrated in British indie music. Returning from a triumphant stadium-filled world tour supporting the Oasis’ reunion...
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Ahead of the release of their new album ‘Get Mean’, due September 18th via Atlantic Records, Boy Harsher share their...
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There are few artists better suited to soundtrack The White Hotel’s demise than Marie Davidson. On Thursday 20th August, the...
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Released by Heat Crimes in collaboration with Thessaloniki’s Elhellell label, ‘Paradise Metal’ introduces Father Dionysios Tabakis, a 52 year old priest from the historic Greek city of Nafplio, who voices Byzantine church songs with amp worship hymns rattled through his fretless electric guitar. And records alone, at home. The music...
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Sydney-based egg-punk outfit Gee Tee, mark their second appearance in the UK, this time visiting the Brudenell Social Club in...
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{C}{O}{M}{B}, the Margate-based duo of artists Ollie Briggs and Jim Dixon (Django Django) announce their signing to Brace Yourself Records...
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The Shaggs – Philosophy of the World In 1968, three sisters from Fremont, New Hampshire strapped on their instruments and declared themselves The Shaggs. At that moment begun a peculiar tale that would last far beyond the group’s five-year run. Dot, Betty and Helen (and occasionally Rachel, the fourth sister)...
