Category: News

Legendary reggae outfit Toots and The Maytals are set to play the Liverpool Olympia this Tuesday in a heavily anticipated show.  It’s a great year for reggae fans in the city, with Positive Vibrations getting acclaim, The Beat and The Selecter doing a double header in December and now, the iconic Toots and The Maytals…

Noise-driven Belgium post-punks Fornet have released the video for their lead single, coming from their upcoming self-titled debut EP, and it’s a unsettling, brilliant must-see take. The video which shows a modern middle-aged man essentially erasing the hair from his body to Fornet‘s crunching post-punk noise infused with krautrock reinforcement.  The single is off the…

We’re always proud when we get to premiere a single from a great up and coming band and today we’re pleased as punch to review the new single from filthy rockers WIFE.  The single, out later tonight, is the trio’s first release on the DIY label Society of Losers which now throws them under their…

Legendary Liverpudlians The La’s will be the subject of a exhibition at the Florrie and will release a rarities album this September.  30 years following the debut tour of cult Liverpudlian pop legends The La’s, the Viper Label and RedHouse Originals have announced a celebration of the tour including an exhibition and a new rarities…

Tuesday, August 1st will see a celebration of a punk icon at the British Music Experience in Liverpool with a special in-conversation all in honour of punk-hero Poly Styrene, frontwoman of the deliberate underachievers X-Ray Spex. John Robb, famed writer and frontman of The Membranes, will be talking to Poly Styrene’s daughter Celeste Ball and…

The annual award-winning Liverpool Music Week has officially been announced for its 15th year with an already amazing first wave of acts including this year’s openers, CHIC & Nile Rodgers. This year’s Liverpool Music Week has already set a bar to be the best yet with its first wave of acts which were announced earlier…

Liverpool‘s psych heroes Strange Collective have announced a follow-up to their celebrated summer shindig of last year with another one at the Invisible Wind Factory this September.  Strange Collective will return with their second Invisible Wind Factory shindig on September 9th with the first acts announced, FUSS, Danye, Yammer and Pale Rider with the second bunch…

Chester Bennington, frontman of popular nu-metal act Linkin Park, has apparently committed suicide at the age of 41, confirms TMZ.  Bennington founded Linkin Park in 1996 and led the band to massive success after their debut album Hybrid Theory, which was granted multi-platinum status in 2005.  Bennington has been in a long battle with alcohol…

Noisemaking legends Dinosaur Jr. have announced that they will preform a special Intimate residency at Manchester‘s Gorilla this December.  J. Macias, Lou and Murph will be returning to inflict more noise on the UK with their weekend residency at Manchester‘s Gorilla on December 16th, 17th and 18th 2017. The band will also preform two nights…

The legendary synth-pop act Orchestral Manoeuvres in the Dark have released the third single off their upcoming album “The Punishment of Luxury“.  The Wirral outfit have proven yet again that they’re not out of the game just yet with the latest batch of singles from their 13th album The Punishment of Luxury and today debuted the…