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Garbage
If ever there was a place to continue the ongoing 90’s it is East London. However, word of Garbage’s return has clearly not spread to the plaid clad, My So Called Life watching hipsters of … Read More »
Win! Tickets To Wychwood Festival
Wychwood Festival returns for its ninth year celebrating the best in indie, folk and world music. We’ve teamed up with Wychwood to offer you the chance to win a pair of tickets to the … Enter here »
Errors
It’s just after 10 o’clock on a rain-dogged Bank Holiday Monday when post-electro Glaswegians Errors stroll unperturbed onto a tiny, gadgets-littered stage at Sixty Million Postcards. Last … Read More »
Ghostpoet
Gathering in the beating heart of Southampton’s Cultural Quarter, the thick layer of dry ice and lush red drapes seem an intimate and fitting setting for the brooding, dejection of London MC … Read More »
The Great Escape 2012: Man Without Country
What have you been doing since you arrived at The Great Escape? Tomas Greenhalf: We played a show in the Psychosocial venue at half nine, for Under The Radar’s stage, and it was really good and … Read More »
SW4 Arena Hosts Announced
Plus more acts for the London dance festival… Read More »
Fiction
You know that scene in 24 Hour Party People? The bit where A Certain Ratio unveil their calypso-tinged new direction to a splattering of bemused faces on the night The Hacienda opens? Well, … Read More »
Great Escape Tip #1: Peace
Why you should see Peace in Brighton… Read More »
Lee Fields
Like Aloe Blacc last year, Lee Fields, a seemingly perennial also ran, experienced a bit of an upsurge in interest thanks to the presence of a song called ‘Money Is King’ on short-lived HBO … Read More »
Honningbarna
Honningbarna – young, embittered Viking cello punks from the unheralded town of Kristiansand in south Norway, and singing entirely in their native tongue – are unlikely contenders for the … Read More »
Sharks
They might be from the UK – Leamington Spa, to be precise – but Sharks have been spending the majority of their touring time in the States, rather than the UK. And with such a calamitous … Read More »
Win: Tickets To Easter’s Kitsuné Maison Party
Bunny ears at the ready! The brilliantly eclectic French record and fashion label Kitsuné have announced the biggest event in their party calendar and the return of their one-of-a-kind ‘Easter … Enter here »
White Hills
It only takes a few minutes before the smoke machine has obscured The Cosmic Dead from vision and the strobing spotlights have rendered the stage a scene from Alien. Apt, really, considering the … Read More »
Veronica Falls
The Scala has seen better days. The lovely old cinema was the long-time home to death-splattered horror triple bills and illicit encounters in its gloomy corners. It now suffers the indignity of … Read More »
Dog Is Dead/ Anothers Blood
It’s the penultimate show of a mammoth 27-date tour for Nottingham’s Skins-soundtracking indie pop fivesome and expectation is rife inside the dark underbelly of the South Coast. First on are … Read More »
SXSW Day Three
That some “cray” shit… Read More »
The Cast of Cheers/Theme Park
Courtney Love and Coogan, chilli and chocolate, Russell Brand and celibacy – the world is full of bafflingly odd combinations. And tonight (albeit not quite on the same scale as the … Read More »
Track Of The Day #73
Bastille – ‘Overjoyed’ Read More »
Sharks
Since 2007, Leamington Spa’s Sharks have been treading that thin line between punk revivalists and a straight-up Clash tribute band. So it’s pleasantly surprising to hear frontman James … Read More »
The Maccabees
We Cut Corners take a chunk of their inspiration from tonight’s headliners. The falsetto and drum/guitar-touting Dublin duo offering jarring, angst-ridden rock blended with a mellower aside in … Read More »
Veronica Falls: Mixtape
We all know what former Fly cover stars Veronica Falls’ music sounds like. But have you ever wondered what music they listen to? If not then click here. If so then see their mixtape below: … Read More »
The Milk/ Kinnie The Explorer
The hip, homely glow of Postcards has something of a reputation for sniffing out great talent just before it explodes on a national level. With Klaxons, Hot Chip and Metronomy having all … Read More »
The Shins
It’s 20 years since James Mercer set out on his musical odyssey. Via Muppets, hot-air balloonists and an ongoing affair with a dangerous (but talented) Mouse, The Shins’ frontman reminisces with Daniel Ross… Read More »
Track of the Day #67
Parakeet – ‘Tomorrow’ Read More »
Five Of The Weirdest Musical Oscar Winners
In the wake of Bret “Flight Of The Conchords” McKenzie’s Oscar win, Matt Mansfield looks at five more gong-scooping songs… Read More »
Great Escape Line-Up Grows
The second wave of artists scheduled to perform at this year’s The Great Escape festival have been announced… Today’s announcement sees 91 new additions to the line-up. Mystery … Read More »
