Reviews
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ReviewsFoxing @ The Deaf Institute, Manchester, 14 Mar
The St. Louis indie rockers are on incendiary form as they road test new material Read more »| 23 Mar 2017 -
ReviewsRival Consoles @ Belgrave Music Hall, Leeds, 17 Mar
Sounds Like THIS, Leeds’ newest music festival, celebrates “bold new sounds” in electronic music, electroacoustic, opera and visual install... Read more »| 22 Mar 2017 -
ReviewsSteve Pilgrim @ Leaf, Liverpool, 16 Mar
Grace is a funny thing in music. It's overused as a lyric, but underused as a commodity. Scouse songwriter Steve Pilgrim has it in abundance and so d... Read more »| 22 Mar 2017 -
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Cloud Nothings @ Stereo, Glasgow, 17 Mar
It’s a Friday night and the walk to Renfield Lane sees Glasgow’s city centre bobbing with Guinness-branded top hats. Pints have been flowing sinc... Read more »| 21 Mar 2017 -
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Dutch Uncles @ The Dancehouse, Manchester, 15 Mar
Juxtapositions between performers and venue rarely come as stark and obvious as this: a band as sprightly as Dutch Uncles performing in the unassuming grande... Read more »| 20 Mar 2017 -
FestivalsTrans Musicales: The review
A recap of the Rennes-based festival from the end of the year, which proved to be an incubator for some of 2017's hottest festival acts Read more »| 17 Mar 2017
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Hamilton Leithauser @ The Art School, Glasgow, 11 Mar
Hamilton Leithauser has not only managed to keep himself busy during the “extreme hiatus” of The Walkmen, but also to practically reinvent himsel... Read more »| 14 Mar 2017 -
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Mitski @ Electric Circus, Edinburgh, 10 Mar
Packed house. Clamouring chatter. Drinks flowing (and spilling). Unfazed musicians. And this is just the support act, Personal Best. Walking a fine line betw... Read more »| 14 Mar 2017 -
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Mark Eitzel @ Deaf Institute, Manchester, 9 Mar
Mark Eitzel is a genius and geniuses… well, they’re not like you and me are they? They can be difficult. They can dazzle and dismay. He does bot... Read more »| 14 Mar 2017 -
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Sam Coomes @ Eagle Inn, Salford, 8 Mar
Is there a term in music that’s greeted with as much nervous apprehension as ‘solo album’? Perhaps it’s less of a concern when the pe... Read more »| 14 Mar 2017 -
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Glass Animals @ The Liquid Room, 9 Mar
It’s pineapples-aplenty on the second sold-out night in Edinburgh’s Liquid Rooms, with the Glass Animals' favourite prickly fruit littering the c... Read more »| 13 Mar 2017 -
Festivals
Outlines Festival 2017: The Review
Hookworms, Bossy Love, Flamingods and many more descend on Sheffield for two days of the best new live music around – we fling ourselves into the madness... Read more »| 10 Mar 2017 -
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The xx @ O2 Apollo, Manchester, 6 Mar
Seeing a band in the middle of an extensive tour schedule, and on the second date of the same city, one might expect a somewhat robotic performance, especial... Read more »| 09 Mar 2017 -
Music
The Pigeon Detectives @ Electric Circus, Edinburgh, 4 Mar
For many 20-somethings, The Pigeon Detectives will bring back fond memories of a golden age of indie, the ups and downs of which are still very visible today... Read more »| 07 Mar 2017 -
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Thurston Moore @ Islington Mill, Salford, 3 Mar
Still is an appropriate name for tonight’s opening act. The solo project of Blacklung’s James Moffat, the aptness comes not from his on-stag... Read more »| 07 Mar 2017