As they prepare to release their thirteen album A New World in Our Hearts, we caught up with Spaceheads, the trumpet-and-percussion duo of Andy Diagram and Richard Harrison to find out what we can expect. SOUNDS: How would you describe Spaceheads [...Read More]
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The Blackstar Sessions
On January 8th 2016, on his 69th birthday, David Bowie released his 25th studio album, Blackstar. Music fans were still sending him birthday greetings and delighting in the newness of the record when just two days later the world was [...Read More]
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As I sit in the passenger’s seat of my editor’s car, we chat about my forthcoming work. “So, I’m doing a few album reviews, covering Rodrigo and Gabriela, we’ve got Mark Guiliana from Blackstar being interviewed for the [...Read More]
PSY Loses YouTube Crown – What’s Next for K-Pop?
Everyone was amazed when YouTube saw one of its hosted videos hit 1 billion views. In fact, even YouTube wasn’t really that prepared for it, according to reports stating its internal counter needed quickly fixing to cater for the larger [...Read More]
Be Here Now
On the 29th of August 1997, ‘TFI Friday’, one of Britain’s most popular TV shows, opened with a sketch that showed the new Oasis album, ‘Be Here Now’, released the previous week, lying on a mock-up operating table while host [...Read More]
WFTU: The end of a Decade of Punx Inna Jungle
It’s become something of an institution within the Manchester punk scene. An annual congregation of the city’s ravers and misbehavers that this year celebrated its tenth birthday and final instalment. The original edition was intended as a one off. Disparate [...Read More]
Mark Reeder looking back
Mark Reeder is a musician and record producer who grew up in Manchester before moving to Berlin at the age of twenty. His career has spanned more than three decades, and he has been involved with, and been the influence for, [...Read More]
Love X Stereo’s “37A” – Track by Track Breakdown
Annie Ko and Toby Hwang make up South Korean duo, Love X Stereo. They have been building a strong reputation in South Korea, as well as over in the US, and recently came over to the UK for the first [...Read More]
True Faith
I am at the Manchester Art Gallery for the launch of the New Order ‘True Faith’ exhibition. As the room fills it’s getting quite nice, with free wine and bottles of lager being given out. A few people I [...Read More]
The Korean Kontingent
It has been an exciting year for South Korean music here in the UK. Oh, you didn’t know? Well, actually, that might sound a bit strange to most of you, since after all wasn’t the last Korean song to do [...Read More]