In January 2016, Bombay Bicycle Club announced an indefinite hiatus after a decade of playing together. By this point frontman Jack Steadman was firmly absorbed in the world of electronica and heartbroken fans were assured that other members had various projects in the works. Toothless is bassist Ed Nash’s project and is the first to see […]
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LISTEN: Dorine Levy – ‘Feelings’
Dorine Levy releases her latest track ‘Feelings’ as a wickedly haunting second instalment from her new EP ‘Mima’.
LIVE REVIEW: Five Day Forecast w/ Leif Erikson, Klangstof + Swimming Tapes at The Lexington
Over the years The Lexington, based in North London, has gathered a reputation for putting on some of the best up and coming bands. Tonight is no different. This show comes as part of The Line Of Best Fit’s five day festival, showing off some of the blogs most hotly tipped bands for 2017, aptly […]
EXCLUSIVE // FLIIIS’ Guide to Manchester’s Musical Underbelly
Manchester-based duo FLIIIS return this January with a three-track spectacular of alternative pop and spoken word, rallying together retro synths with pertinent lyrical depth and body-shaking hooks, the new release proves to be a must-listen.
TRACK OF THE DAY: Dom Robinson – ‘Good Love’
After a busy 2016, Leeds-based indie folk musician Dom Robinson starts the year as he means to go on with ‘Good Love’, the first of several new releases.
TRACK OF THE DAY: Kashmere – ‘Porcelain’
‘Blow Your Mind’ would have been a hard tune to follow on from, for any artist. Yet Stockport four-piece Kashmere have excelled even themselves with their dynamic new track ‘Porcelain’.
TRACK OF THE DAY: Dama Scout – ‘All In Too’
Building on their debut release ‘Forget It’s Good’, eclectic Glaswegian trio Dama Scout have released second track ‘All In Too’.
In Conversation with…CHARLIE CUNNINGHAM
On the eve of releasing his debut album, Bedfordshire-born singer/songwriter Charlie Cunningham will tow his wares across the UK and Europe to sing for thousands of eager fans and patrons. His busy calendar notably has him scheduled to join Scottish vagabond King Creosote on a slew of dates before he later heads out on his own […]
TRACK OF THE DAY: Zuzu – ‘What You Want’
In the deep dark depths of a dreary January, when it can’t even snow properly, here comes an indie-pop instant classic from Merseyside’s latest, greatest export Zuzu to lift your spirits.
EP REVIEW: Hannah Ashcroft – ‘The Quiet Kind’
‘The Quiet Kind’ from Hannah Ashcroft offers so much more than the title suggests – it is the opportunity to journey through sound.
INTRODUCING: Paris Youth Foundation
‘Losing Your Love’ is the recently released single from Liverpudlian five piece Paris Youth Foundation. Encapsulating essences of Two Door Cinema Club and Foals, not only do PYF have Reading and Leeds festival performances and multiple Radio 1 plays under their belts, they have recently been signed to the same management as Wolf Alice.
TRACK OF THE DAY: San Cisco – ‘SloMo’
Indie poppers San Cisco return in blazing technicolor with disco-stomper ‘SloMo’. The single preps news of the band’s third album which will see release sometime this year.
EP PREMIERE: Fuoco – ‘Kape Kinevil’
Brighton-via-Margate twosome Fuoco incite invigorating chaos with EP ‘Kape Kinevil’, exclusively streaming below. The lucid nightmare slash dream cacophony slash sludge party begins as it means to go on: spiked with a wicked sense of humour, shaking out knee-deep canyon grooves alongside riffs that bow down to something holy.
TRACK OF THE DAY: Pool Art – ‘Gender Balance’
Manchester’s Pool Art are a formidable duo. Their lessons in ambient dream pop and pervasive noise rock, captivate and wound in the best ways possible. Taking their next step forward, the two-piece christen ‘Gender Balance’, a fierce uncompromising mission for sonic exploration.
LIVE REVIEW: The Crookes at Brudenell Social Club, Leeds
The Games Room in the Brudenell Social Club is perfectly set for an it’s-almost-Christmas show with its decorative blue fairy light backdrop and inviting stage. With a gin and tonic being my choice of festive beverage tonight, it’s time to dance and get merry.
LISTEN: Tokyo Tea Room – ‘Worlds Apart’
Canterbury quintet Tokyo Tea Room make a play for sensory euphoria with new single ‘Worlds Apart’. It’s a psychedelic bliss trip that lands its listener deep inside the band’s world, submerged in their lucid dreamscape, all is transitory and absorbing.
TRACK OF THE DAY: Alice Merton – ‘No Roots’
Meet songwriting extraordinaire Alice Merton, the singer has lived the life of a nomad since she can remember. Although the life of a traveller isn’t as rose-tinted as we may perceive it to be; always on the move, transitory by nature, never quite existing in a place for long enough to seal in lifelong ties […]
TRACK OF THE DAY: Indoor Pets – ‘Barbiturates’
The Sittingbourne troop of rowdy pop shakers return with a bang in their one-man race to scuzzy pop glory. The song is ‘Barbiturates’, and in Indoor Pets’ hands this means a rowdy, hip-shaking stormer of a tune.
LISTEN: The Golden Age of TV – ‘Between Each Brick’
The Golden Age of TV, a Leeds based 5-piece, have firmly secured their position in the burgeoning post-rock market that’s currently blossoming around the UK with their debut track ‘Between Each Brick’.
TRACK OF THE DAY: Seeing Hands – ‘It’s True’
A follow up to their immensely well-received debut ‘I Knew You’ out earlier this year, Newcastle surf-pop dreamboats Seeing Hands have dropped their latest single ‘It’s True’.




















