Award-winning festival Sound City takes over Liverpool City Centre once more Saturday 3rd and Sunday 4th May with headliners The Royston Club and Dylan John Thomas as well as afternoon headline sets from Corella and STONE. Sounds good right? I’m Jake Marley and here’s the bands and artists you simply CAN’T MISS alongside the headliners!
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Jake Marley’s Urbanista Track Of The Week this week comes from Liverpool’s The Peach Fuzz with their fantastic new single Pieces, out now on Skeleton Key Records. Summer might stick around a little longer if you play The Peach Fuzz’s Pieces out loud often enough. That’s not a promise but it certainly seems like it […]
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Life At The Arcade are fast developing a reputation for churning out festival-ready bangers and Antidote might just be the best yet – scintillating . 9/10 Liverpool music is having a great year and bands like Life At The Arcade are a huge part of that. Churning out bangers left, right and centre, touring the […]
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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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There’s something in the water down in Brighton you know. There’s always something fresh brewing. Less seaside resort, more hotbed for red-hot new bands seemingly by the week, these days. That’s where we’re off for this week’s track of the week, courtesy of some seriously cool, at times Pulp Fiction soundtrack worthy licks from Brighton […]
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Brighton quartet Fur bag this weeks track of the week with their nostalgic, 60’s esque romp Angel Eyes. It’s a lovely, charming preview of their debut EP out on the terrific Nice Swan Records (Pip Blom, Sports Team) on Valentines Day. The Sepia-tinged accompanying video, shot on grainy Super8-style film is also very cool and […]
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This was an easy one. This week’s Urbanista track of week is a belter – Creature the second release from your new favourite band, YONAKA’s new EP of the same name out Nov 16. It’s an absolutely huge venue-filling cut from a band that seemingly make nothing but phenomenal, infectious bangers. Groovy basslines, fizzing, infectious guitars […]
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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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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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