Music Archive
24th November 2011
Live – Candlefest (w/Orange Goblin Interview)
Candlelight Records showcase their roster in Manchester, but does it work. Also, Tom Geddes talks to Orange Goblin.
24th November 2011
Live – Turbowolf
Frantic keyboard heavy rockers Turbowolf smashed it up with Hawk Eyes, but not before chatting to Tom Geddes
22nd November 2011
Album: Turbowolf – Turbowolf
Big release for stunning live band Turbowolf, but can their debut album live upto expectations?
22nd November 2011
Column: Baby, Baby, Baby… Ohh Wait, Maybe Not.
Music Editor Tom Geddes takes a look at whether anybody comes away from Justin Bieber’s baby scandal without looking terrible.
16th November 2011
Live: Jamie XX @ Warehouse Project
A feeling of missed opportunity for the lack of a smashing set that the regulars at WHP have come to expect.
16th November 2011
Live: Now Wave at the Ritz – Stephen Malkmus/Girls/Spectrals
Now Wave presents…Spectrals, Girls and Stephen Malkmus and the Jicks.
16th November 2011
Live: Bass Drum of Death
Strikingly-named Bass Drum of Death play in one of the more unlikely Manchester venues.
16th November 2011
Live: Incubus @ Apollo
Warning: article contains a half-naked photo of Brandon Boyd. Don’t say we don’t give you anything nice to look at.
16th November 2011
Live: Micron 5th Birthday @ Joshua Brooks
Very much an overlooked venue, Joshua Brooks provides a 5 star worthy night of music.
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16th November 2011
Album: Florence and the Machine – Ceremonials
In becoming more confident, the songs lose the nervous emotional intensity that made them so endearing.
16th November 2011
Live: Dog Is Dead @ Sound Control
Dog Is Dead: nothing that you’ve not heard done better a dozen times before.
16th November 2011
Album: Joker – The Vision
Surprises lay in wait even for those who thought they knew the established producer very well.
16th November 2011
Album: Alabama 3 – Shoplifting 4 Jesus
An album packed full of country, funk, blues, gospel, acid house, dubstep and afrobeat. Something for everyone then.
16th November 2011
Album: Atlas Sound – Parallax
A wonderfully beguiling and sensitive record from Deerhunter frontman, Bradford Cox.
16th November 2011
Album: Future of the Left – Polymers Are Forever
This overlooked British outfit still know how to produce some of the most gutsy and infectious rock music around.
16th November 2011
Live: Maccabees @ Sound Control
A step-down from their last Mancunian venture at Academy 1, The Maccabees prove that it’s not where you play but how you play that matters.
16th November 2011
Live: The Darkness @ Academy 1
Think Frankie Cocozza’s the most badass, rock n roll knobhead you’ve ever seen strutting his stuff? You’ve clearly never seen The Darkness then.
16th November 2011
Live: The King Blues @ Academy 2
Poetry and drum cymbals set alight? This isn’t your usual gig. This is a King Blues gig.
16th November 2011
Live: Dum Dum Girls
The Dum Dum Girls manage to achieve the rare feat of recalling Joy Division in a manner that isn’t jarringly obvious.