The UK’s leading festival for new and emerging music – Liverpool Sound City – returns May 4th – May 5th, again taking over Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle. Across a host of venues, emerging music from all corners will be explored. Here’s a few artists I suggest you check out across the weekend, plus where and when […]
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Liverpool lads Life At The Arcade are among the hottest emerging bands in the country. Outstanding live and as new single Wonderland hammers home, damn good in the studio too. It shouts of a band on a real upward curve. A hugely exciting statement of intent – Wonderland excels as Life At The Arcade’s darkest flavour […]
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Following a brilliant debut year in its new home of Liverpool’s Baltic Triangle – which saw Best Metropolitan Festival and Best Small Festival nominations at the UK Festival Awards 2018 – Liverpool Sound City has today unveiled headliners Mabel and Loyle Carner, plus the first wave of artists for next year’s Baltic bash in May. Sound […]
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A couple of years ago I returned from Skeleton Coast Festival telling everyone who’d listen that I’d seen a raw young band that excited me like no other had in nearly five years in the music industry. Wildly proclaiming “they’re gonna be massive!” The band? Merseyside’s now best, worst kept secret – The Mysterines. Since […]
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Newcastle lads The Pale White have unleashed new single Wisdom Tooth. A pounding, swaggering indie monster, packed full of filthy riffage and groove. It’s no surprise this belter premiered on Radio 1. It’s got that ‘big thing’ aura about it. The clear shift in sound to darker, filthier and even more anthemic depths is ticking all […]
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Yassassin are a band well and truly on top of their game. Latest release Wreckless says as much, rather loudly. It’s lovely loudly though. Maybe kinda reckless wreckless at heart but very much an explosive, at times cinematic squeal with parts in all the right places. Damn it’s just so beautifully scuzzy. It’ll kick you up […]
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