Posts by Month: May 2013

News: Brown Brogues Release New Single ‘Baby It’s Alright’ + Video

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Manchester’s most eligible garage punk twins Brown Brogues have announced the release of new single ‘Baby It’s Alright’ out ‘soon’ on shiny 12″ vinyl via Ultra Cool Records.

To accompany the stomping beat and angelic falsetto the boys Brogue have released an accompanying music video made real by … Read on

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Review: Mount Eerie: Live Review

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Sometimes, against their better judgment, people guess their way through a situation. Sometimes they guess their way through their whole lives. Sometimes they guess their way through a few hundred words of writing. Sometimes they guess their way through a musical performance. Sometimes that doesn’t quite work out for … Read on

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Review: Phosphorescent: Live Review

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Matthew Houck possesses all the required potential to bring to a close a blissful Manchester bank holiday weekend. His (mildly) psychedelic folk rock (which fist came to the attention of the music press in 2007 with the release of critically acclaimed album Pride) sits comfortably upon the backdrop of … Read on

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Gig: Big Deal

 

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Alice Costelloe and kc Underwood, based in east London. They met, Underwood says, when Costelloe’s mother hired him to give her daughter guitar lessons.

“It portrays the gamut of romantic and sexual longings … with the honesty you would expect from someone who recently experienced them, but with … Read on

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Gig: Trophy Wife

 

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Trophy Wife’s highly anticipated, eponymous, debut album is now available to download on Bandcamp. The three-piece alt-pop band from Oxford rose to prominence back in 2010 with the widely acclaimed debut single, ‘Microlite’ on Moshi Moshi, which saw them rapidly become one of the most blogged about bands … Read on

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Gig: Todd Rundgren

 

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Todd Rundgren is an American multi-instrumentalist, songwriter and record producer. Hailed in the early stage of his career as a new pop star, supported by the certified gold solo double LP Something/Anything? in 1972, his career has produced a diverse range of recordings as solo artist, and during … Read on

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Gig: Camera Obscura

 

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Camera Obscura are an indie pop band from Glasgow, Scotland. The band formed in 1996 and have released four albums to date.

 

In November 2008, the band announced that they had completed recording the follow-up to Let’s Get Out of This Country, and in February 2009, … Read on

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Gig: Bored Spies

+ SMALL GANG + MOUNT FABRIC

 

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Bored Spies are a Canadian-Korean-Singaporean three-piece. Formed in early 2012, the International trio are currently based in Singapore, Seoul and Arizona with a line up featuring Singaporean singer / guitarist Cherie Ko (Obedient Wives Club, Pastelpower) on vocals, and Orestes Morfin (Bitch … Read on