Sunday Mix: Mac Wetha
For his languid Sunday session, the producer and NiNE8 Collective member winds down with woozy hip-hop, jazz, slowcore indie and Afrobeat
Daniel Johnston – Mixed by Shower Harvey
In light of Johnston’s recent passing, Bristol DJ Shower Harvey collates a small snapshot of his vast discography
Captured Tracks #1: Wild Nothing
Wild Nothing steps up with a mix of dreamy 80s goodness for the first instalment of Captured Tracks residency
Oxford band Low Island confront mass humiliation in the video for ‘Holding It Down’
We’re excited to be premiering a brand new video from Oxford-based four-piece Low Island. Having…
Watch: Future Islands drop a brand new video for ‘Ran’
Restless singer Samuel T. Herring keeps running, and running
Menace Beach – Lemon Memory
Jon Clark reviews the latest from Leeds DIY stalwarts, Menace Beach
Listen to On Hold from The xx’s new album I See You
The xx are back Following a string of teasers The xx have shared details of…
Honeyblood:
Hocus Pocus
Sammy Jones discovers how Buffy the Vampire Slayer and a grizzly painting inspired the indie-pop duo’s new LP Babes Never Die
Japanese Breakfast: Spiritual Healing
Michelle Zauner’s solo project Japanese Breakfast pools emotions into a swirl of shoegaze nostalgia. She expounds on change, sentiment and whitewashing with Gunseli Yalcinkaya
Angel Olsen – My Woman
On 2012’s Half Way Home, Angel Olsen’s sorrow-laden voice was taken at face value, plonking her…
Hot Topic
A monthly peer into the world of the outspoken, the sidelined, and the hard-hitting
Maria Usbeck’s solo debut Amparo is triumphantly global
An exotic soundscape of bird calls and Latin-style percussion opens Amparo, the debut solo album…
The Big Moon:
All Friends Here
In between roars of laughter, the hyped four piece talk stage invasions, super soakers, and a mutual love for Mellow Magic with Gemma Samways
Irvine Welsh to write Alan McGee biopic
The author of Trainspotting and Filth is writing a film based on the Creation Records…
Hot Topic
Saving the fjords, 90210, and female bombing squadrons – it can only be another edition of Sammy Jones talking about stuff
6 New Videos You Need To See
We count down the week’s best visuals
Hot Topic
Begone 2015! 2016’s here now. This is the future. Weird.
Courtney Barnett:
Life’s a Breeze
We spoke to Courtney Barnett about penning effortless, dead-pan odes to the humdrum and the banal
Hot Topic
A monthly peer into the murky world of the outspoken, the sidelined, and the hard-hitting
5 Songs About Supermarkets
Trust Fund’s Ellis Jones got Billy Black thinking a lot about supermarkets in pop music after their recent interview
TRAAMS – Modern Dancing
The shadowier side of the human condition is put under the microscope repeatedly in the refreshingly visceral somophore album from TRAAMS
Idles‘ top five artists their guitarist has tried (and failed) to make them emulate
The band talk us through the whims of their very suggestible lead guitarist and his beloved CD player
Flamingods‘
Top 5 Exotica Songs
Flamingods delve into the overlooked genre of exotica
Listen to Trust Fund’s new album Seems Unfair
Ellis Jones and company are back with their second album Seems Unfair Bristol’s Ellis Jones…
Savages’ new album is ready, watch a new video now
Savages have shared the video for The Answer from upcoming album Adore Life Four piece…
Majical Cloudz – Are You Alone?
It is still unclear what’s made Majical Cloudz so popular
Monthly New Music Roundup
Here’s the brand new artists we’ve had on repeat this month
Shopping share Straight Lines video
The London trio have shared a vaguely NSFW clip for the Why Choose? cut Shopping…
Sexwitch release new song, Ha Howa Ha Howa
It’s another cut from the forthcoming eponymous album
Darwin Deez – Double Down
Darwin Deez is your mentally unhinged boyfriend. “You wanna play games? Kill your attitude, girl,”…