All shimmery and dreamy and layered, MONEY fits right in with the Bella Union aesthetic. Personally tracked down by Simon Raymonde after selling out a series of local shows last year, it’s not difficult to see what got the industry legend so excited; these Manchester boys seem to be making more …
Nation Citizen Service (NCS) is pleased to announce its upcoming gig, featuring some of the UK’s brightest musical stars. Rudimental, The 1975, Goldierocks, and Clean Bandit are all playing live at the NCS gig at Gorilla in Manchester on 4 May.
Now, as NCS is an organization …
Swiss Lips‘ debut single ‘U Got the Power‘ was pretty much inescapable in 2012. The nascent Manchester five-piece had struck on a winning formula for immaculate, electro-tinged pop, and this particular track was the perfect distilling of it, earning plaudits from the NME and BBC Radio 1, …
On his remix of Syron‘s forthcoming sophomore single ‘Here‘, Manchester’s TCTS drops a two-step beat to devastating effect; curtailing the original’s epic synth stabs and veering into far more garage-oriented territory. One of three remixes acting as b-sides to ‘Here’, which is out via Black Butter and …
It doesn’t feel quite right introducing you to a band like Fiction on a freezing British morning; the London quintet’s tropicalia and afrobeat-inspired indie pop takes the mind on a musical tour of more equatorial environs. With a debut album The Big Other out via the ever-reliable Moshi Moshi on …
English band Hurts have blown up in the music sphere with their debut album Happiness. They’ve received great reviews and reached the top 10 in several countries. Their dark, vaguely dystopian take on pop music has gained them a significant following. The group, made of singer Theo Hutchcraft and synthesis Adam …
Unbelievable reverb-soaked live videos in churches, garage pop from San Francisco, and the Bunker offering up ‘trashy, cymbal-heavy pop’, ‘psychedelic exploration of the synthesiser cosmos’ and ‘accessible, euphoric epics’. Phew.
I feel a poignant way to start this column would be with a reference to Embers’ recent live recording …
Findlay is a new female artist whose début single, ‘Your Sister’, is a full-on embodiment of proper gritty garage rock. You can watch the S&M-style video here (saucy) and download it for free here. Having just finished touring with #1 newcomer Jake Bugg, 2013 is bound to be a …
D/R/U/G/S is a stage name of Callum Wright who, for a 22 year old, has surprisingly strong pop sensibilities. His music slowly invaded music blogs and then radio shows, and then he began to tour around Europe. He’s had a pretty organic and impressive career so far, and his music …
I’m starting to think that we might be experiencing a better ’80s than people that lived in the 1980s did. We’re getting concentrates of the most interesting and fun bits of the decade with all the music and fashion resurgence that’s been coming through lately.
Of that ilk is Manchester …
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