“Explosions in the Sky and Wingo let their haunting instrumental wash over a fire-ravaged forest, a nod to the isolated setting of Prince Avalanche.”  Rolling Stone Hailed by everyone from The New Yorker and Rolling Stone to Judd Apatow to their hundreds of thousands of fans for the cinematic scale and sweep of its instrumental … Read more

Merge will reissue The Mountain Goats 2002 album All Hail West Texas in the UK on the 5th August 2013. The last of the “all-home-recordings albums” by the Mountain Goats and the only one about which that claim is true, All Hail West Texas was originally released as a free-standing compact disc on the late, … Read more

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/88994672″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] “A Shut-In’s Prayer finally brings to mind the eerie secular hymns of Springsteen’sNebraska, but written for the ones with their cars up on concrete blocks, who never made it past the city limits.”  Mojo Owen Ashworth is returning to the UK for the first time since 2010, when he officially … Read more

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/87384306″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Halo Halo are three friends living in South London, writing a primal, hyper-melodic music that makes you want to dance into the mountains and throw a rope around the moon! Rachel Horwood (vocals, banjo, also of the band Trash Kit), Jack Barraclough(vocals, drums) and Gill Partington (bass, modded-keyboard) came together just two years ago … Read more

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/92222488″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Still Smiling is a unique collaboration and an unexpected one between Italian composer,Teho Teardo and Blixa Bargeld, leader of Einstürzende Neubauten and former Bad Seeds.  They first met during the realization of ‘Ingiuria’, a theatre piece, and afterwards collaborated on a song for a film soundtrack, called ‘A Quite Life’.   It was this song … Read more

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/89419295″ params=”secret_token=s-QCKui” width=”100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] “World Music sounds incredible – a pitch-perfect mix of Black Sabbath, Can, Fela Kuti, Funkadelic and the northern-lights psych of countrymen such as Pärson Sound or Träd Gräs och Stenar.  The Guardian ***** “…surging, mercurial lead guitar battles big-mama blues wailing over bent boogie rhythms, before melting into a … Read more

Halifax, Canada garage duo, Cousins are busy getting ready for their first trip to the UK in May to play The Great Escape and two shows in London. The band recently completed work on a brand new 10-song album entitled, The Halls of Wickwire, in Toronto at Candle Recording with engineer Josh Korody (Beliefs) and … Read more

 [soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/89180289″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Musician and writer, John Carter Cash will be publishing his debut novel, Lupus Rex, on Ravenstone, a new imprint of books from Rebellion Publishing for children and young adults.  This beautiful new tale of nature is in the tradition of Watership Down, The Rats of Nimh, the … Read more

[soundcloud url=”http://api.soundcloud.com/tracks/85510870″ params=”” width=” 100%” height=”166″ iframe=”true” /] Nottingham’s six.by seven, will be headlining a Club Fandango/ Fierce Panda night to bid farewell to Kentish Town’s Bull and Gate on Wednesday 1st May!  Their new record, Love and Peace and Sympathy will be out 8th July 2013! Six.by Seven released their first album, The Things We Make to rave reviews in 1998.  Five Peel Sessions followed, … Read more