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Liverpool Sound City have announced their move back to Liverpool city centre for 2018, after a warm reception at Clarence Docks earlier this year.  The festival will feature curated events throughout the city centre in a format the festival originally shined in. I  The festival will take place Bank Holiday weekend of May 5th and…

The The have announced their first live performances in sixteen years to take place next June in Denmark and London. The band have confirmed that they will preform for the first time since their farewell at David Bowie‘s Meltdown Festival in 2002 with two dates next year.  The first is a headline appearance at the…

Liverpool Music Week have added more acts to it’s fifteenth year anniversary festival including Everything Everything, Jungle (live) and more.  The second wave includes Everything Everything, Jungle (live), Dawn Penn, GAIKA, Dan Croll, Blanck Mass, Kero Kero Bonito, Moor Mother, Abstract Orchestra Preforming Madvillinary and Shogun.  Amongst the added highlights are Manchester‘s Everything Everything who will be…

Manchester Psych Fest is nearly upon us, the yearly mind-bending all-dayer of psychedelic necessities and must-sees and this year is no different.  Headlined by Teleman, Ryley Walker, Bo Ningen, Flamingods and The Telescopes, the all-dayer across three venues in Manchester is a not-miss event.  Also bringing in MENACE BEACH, Evil Blizzard, Sulk, Desert Mountain Tribe,…

Captain Beefheart‘s legendary backing outfit The Magic Band will bid farewell with a show at the Philharmonic Hall this November.  The legacy of Captain Beefheart is long and winding with his extraordinary career and now his legendary backing band The Magic Band will close off Beefheart‘s career with their farewell tour.  The band preforming is…

English rockers Kasabian have announced a huge UK tour ahead of their headline appearances at Reading and Leeds this year and they’ve included a stop at the Echo Arena.  The band will stop by the Liverpool Echo Arena on December 5th to support their latest album For Crying Out Loud. The band will also be…

Legendary funk icon Bootsy Collins has announced his first album in six years which will be released in October. The record titled World Wide Funk is out on October 27th and features a boatload of guests including Big Daddy Kane, Buckethead, the late P-Funk legend Bernie Worrell and even Public Enemy‘s Chuck D.  The first…

4AD‘s wonderous Pixx has announced a date at The Magnet this October in support of her brilliant debut album The Age of Anxiety.  Pixx, the refreshing identity of songwriter Hannah Rodgers, will drop by The Magnet on October 5th in support of her acclaimed debut album The Age of Anxiety.  She will share the bill…

Legendary Joy Division and New Order founding bassist Peter Hook and the iconic industrial metal heroes Ministry have collided on a new double A side split cover of 70s space-rock classic “Dancing Madly Backwards“. It’s unthinkable, we thought, the former New Order and Joy Division bassist Peter Hook and the industrial titans Ministry working on…

After the shambolic cancellation of Hope and Glory Festival, The Lightning Seeds have announced a free gig to festival goers tonight at the Zanzibar with Clean Cut Kid.  Doors are at 7pm for the gig and Hope and Glory goers who were left in the dirt by the festival are able to get in for…