Posts by Month: May 2014

jo rose

Gig: Jo Rose + Roselie Warner + Elle Mary

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The fuel family has decided to once a month go back to our roots and have a right good old folkey knees up. We are gonna showcase some of Mancunia’s belting folk talent of now and yore.

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Jo Rose
You may remember Jo as the frontman of … Read on

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Gig: Manchester Psych Fest ft. Toy, The Underground Youth, Ghost Outfit + More

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LIVE // DJ LINE-UP
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TOY
Richard Norris DJ Set (The Grid/The Time and Space Machine)
Telegram
The Underground Youth
Ghost Outfit
Helicon
Dead Rabbits
Purple Heart Parade
Second Shepherds
The Black Delta Movement
The Jungfraus
Pete Bassman
Richard Hector-Jones DJ Set
Manchester Psych Fest DJs

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VISUALS … Read on

cosmonaughts

Gig: Cosmonauts + Enemies Eyes + Wild Birds

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Hailing from the sleepy suburban sprawl of Orange County, California, Cosmonauts forge malcontent drone-pop melodies, delivered with a clangy laser-fuzz backbone. Formed in Summer 2009 by Alexander Ahmadi & Derek Cowart, Cosmonauts offer a glimpse of drug-addled Southern Californian rock n roll in the 21st century.

Inspired in equal … Read on

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Gig: Grouplove

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Having performed at some of the UK’s best loved festivals – including Glastonbury, T in the Park and Reading & Leeds – and selling out their last London show months in advance, these shows mark the band’s return to the UK following the release of their debut album Never … Read on

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Gig: Marc Ford + Elijah Ford

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Marc Ford, widely hailed as one of the most gifted, in-demand rock guitarists of his generation, has switched gears to deliver ‘Holy Ghost,’ an album that will undoubtedly stand as one of the finest Americana releases of 2014.

The fabled former lead guitarist with the Black Crowes has been … Read on

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Gig: The War On Drugs

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Philadelphia’s The War on Drugs reside at the blurred edges of American music: overexposing studio limitations, piling tape upon tape to maximum density, and then — with each song — they pull off the scaffolding to reveal what sticks, keeping only what’s absolutely necessary and dig into what sounds … Read on

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Gig: Smoke Fairies + The Lake Poets

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Smoke Fairies’ outstanding new album, the eponymously titled Smoke Fairies, shows the band in top form, combining their classic approach while exploring new forms of musical expression – but it is an album that they nearly didn’t make.

 

There was a moment after the release of Smoke Fairies’ … Read on

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Gig: The Flaming Lips + Young Knives

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The Flaming Lips are an American rock band formed in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma in 1983. Instrumentally, their sound contains lush, multi-layered, psychedelic rock arrangements, but lyrically their compositions show elements of space rock, including unusual song and album titles—such as “What Is the Light? (An Untested Hypothesis Suggesting That … Read on

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Review: Neutral Milk Hotel: Live Review

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Saturday’s sunshine has seen a mower Holocaust wrought on many a lawn. These outdoor carpet-barbers spent the good weather making their immediate outdoors looking good for the inevitable deluge next weekend, and I suppose the bees still made honey in 1945. On the top deck of this bus there’s … Read on

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