Oh, do fuck off Manchester, with your achingly cool bands, amazing musical diversity, friendly eateries, and ample free street parking (after 8pm) stop being so darn bloody good and give the rest of the country
Big Wave are on a roll, in the wake of a spectacularly GREAT EP – “The Roots of Love (Come Tumbling Down)’’ and a wonderful free download ‘Dying On The Vine’’ they release their début
Swiss Lips are back! Yup those lads from Manchester with the rather rude name, who describe themselves as “Pop sorcerers, going straight to hell” and who we’d previously described as having “more hooks than Abu
Last time we featured IO ECHO we came out with the slightly bizarre assertion that they’d managed to arouse such feelings of intense joy that we had an urge to “go out and quite literally fuck
Today’s track is from London’s Creatures of Love from their debt EP “Boy Crimes.” Entitled ‘Knossus’ it’s a slow building slice of Goth electronica, where tribal drums do battle with swirling portentous synths whilst frosty
It seems we just cannot keep away from Manchester this week as we bring yet another artist to emerge from a scene that Bella Union boss and former Cocteau Twin Simon Raymonde has described as
They may not be Dutch, they may not even be uncles, but Manchester’s Dutch Uncles do have a new single out, the somewhat unappetisingly titled ‘Fester’. We initially read this as” Dutch Uncle Fester” and
If you’re bored shitless with overproduced soulless bland pop, or delicately plucked guitars from sober young men who gaze poetically into the mid distance, as if trying to discern the meaning of life then salvation
We’ve been fans of Blindness since 2010’s “Confessions” EP cleaved our skull asunder and bathed our ears in glorious noise via their intoxicating blend of raw power and dark brooding melodies. This is what guitar music
Christianoshi is a London based electro pop artist, who on the evidence of his new single ‘Fool’ is channelling the dark spirit of Violator era Depeche Mode fused with the pop sensibility of Erasure. Of
‘Knots’ is something that the hapless Nick Clegg has been tying himself in this week after his grovelingly wretched apology which aimed at pathos but resulted in bathos became a hilarious internet meme. ‘Knots’ is
Everybody likes Radiohead right? Well actually wrong, the problem for us has always been the vocal. Alas whenever we hear Mr Yorke’s mewlings we often mistakenly think a small child has wandered into the room