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After almost 40 years in the game electronic pop pioneers The Human League headline the opening night of this year’s Liverpool Sound City. It promises to be a memorable occasion with guests the Art of Noise
Interview: Carl Barât and The Jackals Jackal, Libertine and one of the headliners at this year’s Liverpool Sound City festival. Carl Barât called Susie Bennett here at the VPME to chat about his plans for the
This weekend Fest Evol returns as 33 artists including some of the best up and coming bands descend on Liverpool’s Invisible Wind Factory. With such a strong lineup it’s near impossible to narrow things down
This year Liverpool Sound City celebrates ten years in the game, quite an achievement given that the festival was launched at the start of the economic downturn and at a time when seismic changes have
Songs To Learn And Sing – The Electro version, so except liberal use of the words, “cinematic, brooding, pulsating and even Voight-Kampff” Marnie – Lost Maps Marnie returns ‘ Lost Maps ‘ with a new
At the end of 2015 we tipped Skylar Fri as one to watch describing her music as “Sophisticated electronic chillwave tinged pop, commercial enough to get the ears of the pop crowd, and equally hip
Songs To Learn And Sing AbiChan – Whispers AbiChan is the new musical project of Ex-Zutons Saxophonist Abi Harding. Given her past musical associations, you could hardly be blamed for expecting perhaps something that has
If ‘Munki’ was the Jesus And Mary Chain‘s break up album then ‘Damage And Joy’ is the album that finally saw quarrelling brothers William and Jim Reid, bury the hatchet. The album title could be
The Revolution Will Not Be Digital. In the digital age, with readily available streaming services, illegal downloads and a generation having grown up having never actually bought a physical music product who in their right
Evol have revealed the final artists for this year’s Festevol Gardens plus details of stage breakdowns as the Invisible Wind Factory complex is transformed into “zones .” Joining the ludicrously stellar line up are Trudy and the
SOUND CITY+ ANNOUNCES SECOND WAVE OF CONFERENCE PROGRAMME Internationally renowned music industry conference Sound City+ has announced a host of new high profile guests, talks and panels to join a programme celebrating the event’s
Black Honey – Somebody Better. Izzy, Chris, Tom and Tommy aka Black Honey roar back into earshot with a brand new track … and it could be their best yet. Admittedly that’s a pretty bold statement
