Posts by Month: July 2011

A decent crowd ventured out for this show, especially considering it was a Sunday night and the streets were nearly flooded from the unrelenting rain of the day. Then again, it was at the Ruby Lounge (a venue that tends to guarantee a good show) and the band was Vivian … Read on

This year’s MIF has provided Manchester with some of the year’s cultural highlights. From Bjork’s Biophilia to Damon Albarn’s Doctor Dee, the city has been spoiled rotten with some of the biggest tickets money can buy. However, the show that has set the pulse of every young hipster racing is … Read on

2010’s breakthough rock’n’roll masterpiece had to be Innerspeaker. No doubt about it. An album of beautifully crafted psychedelica. Having waited a lifetime to witness it live, two treats in a month. Sound.

Seeing Tame Impala at midday on the Pyramid stage at Glastonbury was strange. Maybe it was the … Read on

The insipid heat of Academy 3, caused by the mixed throng of bodies and lack of adequate ventilation, provided a suitable setting for Vintage Trouble, the soul-rock sensation that has recently burst out of Los Angeles. Their sound is a fusion of many solid influences. From the outset, it sounds … Read on

We met The Heartbreaks backstage at The Deaf Institute where they were kind enough to perform this acosutic version of ‘Delay’.