New Lily & Madeleine album announced
Lily & Madeleine have announced the release of a new album, Keep It Together, for 26th February via New West Records. The album was recorded in Bloomington, Indiana with [...]
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Chapter & Verse: The Leaf Library
In the second edition of Chapter & Verse, we turn to The Leaf Library and their measured, pastoral vision of indie that soothes and provokes equally; the gentle [...]
If It Makes You Feel Good: 10 Stock Aitken Waterman Classics
Was it the inescapability of the ‘Rickrolling’ phenomenon that allowed us to get past the imagined guilty pleasures phase and just accept that, whatever their [...]
Various: Ork Records – New York New York
Let’s not expend too much energy arguing about who invented punk rock but Terry Ork, a sometime associate of the Warhol set, spent the mid 1970s watching and waiting [...]
Punk London: 40th anniversary events planned
To mark the fortieth anniversary of punk in the capital, a series of live performances, films, talks and exhibitions are planned for 2016 under the banner Punk. London: 40 [...]
Critical Mass: Adele’s 25
The relatively low-key – compared to some – arrival of Adele‘s 25 on 20th November, shone a bright light on a few of the challenges faced by modern music [...]
Fortuna POP! announce Winter Sprinter
Fortuna POP! have announced the sixth instalment of their ‘Winter Sprinter’ event. 2016’s event takes place at London’s Lexington on 5th-8th January. [...]
EMA to soundtrack #Horror movie
EMA has shared the first listen from her score for Tara Subkoff’s forthcoming movie #HORROR, starring Chloe Sevigny and Natasha Lyonne. The full score is to be released [...]
The Happening: w/e 20th November
The Fall release the Wise Ol’ Man EP (29th January) on CD and 12″. The seven track collection features a mixture of new material alongside instrumental and remix [...]
Chapter & Verse: Desperate Journalist
As the man with the quiff once sang, “There’s more to life than books, y’know? But not much more.” While we wouldn’t go quite so far (crisp [...]
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