Music
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Festivals#SFTOCSkinny: The Winners!
We asked you to share your snaps from this year's Sounds from the Other City festival – and you responded more enthusiastically than we could've hoped for. It's time to reveal the winners... Read more »| 12 May 2015 -
Festivals#SFTOCSkinny: The Shortlist!
A week since Sounds from the Other City festival, and we've emerged from two things: our hangovers, and sorting through more than 300 entries to our photo competition! If you entered, see if you can spot your snap in the 30-strong shortlist below... Read more »| 12 May 2015 -
Reviews
Grey Hairs – Colossal Downer
Always a blast when the clever kids play dumb, and plenty have done just that over the years: from Iggy to Mudhoney to METZ, there’s few greater thrill... Read more »| 12 May 2015 -
Live Music
Live at Glasgow @ Various Venues, 3 May
The choose-your-own-adventure format of a day-festival like Live at Glasgow presents almost too many options. Having so much on offer can turn a person into ... Read more »| 12 May 2015 -
Live MusicPurity Ring / Born Gold @ The Art School, 28 April
Brush your teeth; tonight’s a double helping of sugary, Canadian electro-wizardry, and the Art School’s bustling crowd is hungry for it. The bill... Read more »| 12 May 2015 -
News
Northwest Music News – 7 May: Africa Oyé Full Line-Up, Liverpool International Music Festival + more
Further Liverpool festival announcements Undeniably one of Liverpool's biggest summer parties, Africa Oyé (20-21 Jun) has revealed the rest of its li... Read more »| 07 May 2015
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Videos
Hector Bizerk – The Bigger Picture (live acoustic session at SxSW 2015)
In the second installment from our session with Hector Bizerk at this year's South by Southwest festival, the Glasgow quartet play an acoustic version o... Read more »| 07 May 2015 -
Reviews
The Fall – Sub-Lingual Tablet
These are relatively stable times for The Fall, with guitarist Pete Greenway and bassist Dave Spurr having clocked up an impressive nine years' service in a ... Read more »| 06 May 2015 -
ReviewsTyler, the Creator – Cherry Bomb
Dare say it, but has Tyler grown up? In his first effort post-WOLF trilogy the breadth of styles undertaken hints at witnessing a transition into more mature... Read more »| 06 May 2015 -
ReviewsThe Hipshakes – Sounds We Found / Maximum Growth And Vigour
Two doses of moreish, bratty rambunctiousness from The Hipshakes - arguably the UK’s most criminally-overlooked garage rock sensations. Read more »| 05 May 2015 -
Live Music
Northwest Gig Highlights – May 2015
It’s a month of one-offs, with Douglas Dare and Earth in Liverpool, and Mew in Manchester. It’s also the longest month ever; have fun budgeting to be able to manage all these gems Read more »| 05 May 2015 -
Reviews
Prurient – Frozen Niagara Falls
As with the rest of Prurient’s unforgiving discography, Frozen Niagara Falls is an assault on the senses with barely a moment of respite, however in wh... Read more »| 05 May 2015 -
Reviews
The Tallest Man on Earth – Dark Bird is Home
A shimmering influx of Scandinavian country-influenced singers – that’s First Aid Kit and the like – have graced the international sta... Read more »| 03 May 2015 -
Festivals
Festival Watch – May 2015
It’s May! May the force to stand up most of the day watching at least 11 bands and traversing an equivalent number of miles be with you. Yes, it’s time for all of the all-dayers Read more »| 01 May 2015 -
Interviews
Flesh and Bone: Fuck Buttons' Benjamin John Power returns as Blanck Mass
The bucolic daydream of Blanck Mass’ eponymous debut has slipped into an exhilarating kind of nightmare with follow-up Dumb Flesh. Benjamin John Power takes time out to talk about isolation, contradiction and his new life in Bonnie Scotland. Read more »| 01 May 2015