5+ hour, 8+ min ago   (614+ words) It’s the hypothetical question that’s hardest to answer: Faced with the prospect of your own mortality, how would you react? There are very clearly no right or wrong ways, but the stories of those who’ve been there might offer clues....

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (612+ words) There were many Tony Wilsons – entrepreneur, cultural icon, music industry innovator – and the latter manifested itself most obviously in the guise of the Factory Records label he co-founded in 1979. But as an innovator Wilson was far from infallible, and one…...

1+ day, 4+ hour ago   (614+ words) We started getting the messages early here, but nearly all of them said the same thing: “Have you heard it? Did you see it? Man, that is definitely the song of the summer.” The number being repped was Kick Stones…...

3+ week, 1+ day ago   (236+ words) Shearwater by J Benson “Laurie’s been a friend and hero of ours for a long time and when I wrote this story, it was easy to imagine in her voice,” Shearwater‘s Jonathan Meiburg has said of Laurie Anderson, the…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (159+ words) Lava La Rue by Muna Farah Lava La Rue has joined forces with Speedy Wunderground and its producer wiz Dan Carey on the new single Prince Of Bologna. “Prince of Bologna is lyrically a speed date of conversations I’ve overheard,…...

1+ mon, 3+ day ago   (138+ words) Dry Cleaning by Shervin Lainez A deluxe edition of Dry Cleaning‘s third studio record Secret Love is online now with a trio of new tracks added to the original running order, each introduced with visuals from BULLYACHE. “As difficult…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (107+ words) DMAs by Roman Jody DMAs have posted their latest single Killing Time with this summer set to bring the release of the band’s new, self-titled album on August 21st. (pre-order) Having spent time on the road recently marking the 10th anniversary of…...

1+ mon, 2+ week ago   (137+ words) Peggy Gou and Ayra Starr by Park Sangjun “I knew I wanted a voice that could match the song’s uplifting energy for summer,” Peggy Gou has said after teaming up with Ayra Starr on the new single ‘Wo,man’. “The…...

2+ mon, 3+ day ago   (236+ words) Johnny Marr live at the Electric Ballroom, London (Alessandro Gianferrara for Live4ever) Johnny Marr has announced his new album The Age Of Everything will be released on October 2nd, bookended by the landmark solo shows which are coming up Manchester and London....

2+ mon, 1+ week ago   (176+ words) Laurie Vincent’s latest venture Big Truck will release their debut album Midday At The Middleway on August 28th. Having been introduced earlier this year with Central Reservation Blues, the band’s brand new single Collided has been described by Vincent as, ‘one…...