19 year old north Harrow’s KATE NASH plays a headline show at the Spitz on Monday March 26th. In the vein of friend and fan Lily Allen, KATE NASH sings about people weird and wonderful as she mixes her wistful london accent, an acoustic guitar and sparse minimal youth electro pop with a fair dose of humour.
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BLONDE REDHEAD bring their seductive, dreamy pop to KOKO, London on Wednesday 30 May as they promote new album ’23’ out on 4AD in April
Their live sets seem them combining spare otherworldliness and bittersweet tension as they deliver blurred strings, magical chimes, dark guitar washes, multidimensional rhythms and rich bass lines, think somewhere between Serge Gainsbourg and The Cocteau Twins meets My Bloody Valentine.
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To coincide with the release of Roaring The Gospel, a collection of rare James Yorkston singles & b-sides released on Domino, James will be playing a full band show at the Union Chapel. This event will go under the banner Roaring The Gospel, with some very special guests to support, details to follow.
SCOUT NIBLETT has recorded with the legendary Steve Albini, and reduces audiences around the world to jibbering wrecks with the sheer force of her performances. Playing the drums and singing so loudly and gleefully it sounds like her lungs might burst: ‘It’s all for you!’ she yelps onstage, like a kid offering a present of slugs and petals and drawings. It’s all for you! Tonight she plays new material from ‘Kidnapped By Neptune’, the recent album out now on Too Pure.Plus Guests
BATTLES the avant-experimentalists and math rock super group – including John Stanier on drums, originating from the legacy that is Helmet, and still lending his skills to Mike Patton?s Tomahawk and Australian powerhouse The Mark of Cain; Ian Williams guitarist/ keyboardist known for his distinctive guitar styling in cult band Don Caballero; Dave Konopka, guitar and bass, previously in the underground band Lynx and Tyondai Braxton, avant-garde solo musician (who recently collaborated with Prefuse 73), here vox/ keyboardist/ guitar/ electronics play as main support.
Their live sets sees them promote debut album MIRRORED released on 14th May on Warp, preceded by ATLAS the single released 2nd April as they concoct a mix of strident post-rock/ jazz/ hardcore and electronics, stunning crowds with mind boggling poly-rhythmic sequences and complicated time signatures, hurtled at you with sheer sonic velocity.
?A new force to be reckoned with?
?One of the most exciting avant-garde experimental outfits to emerge in years. Let the battle commence? Rock Sound
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A Hawk and A Hacksaw is Jeremy Barnes (accordion, vocals) and Heather Trost (violin, vocals) from Albuquerque, New Mexico. Their sound is a fantastical and emotive mix of East European folk, Gypsy song, Klezmer, Mexican fanfare and gorgeous cinematic flourishes, with pockets of classic song-writing. For this very special tour, Jeremy and Heather have recruited a group of four adventurous musicians from Hungary and one from the UK to present their music at its most ambitious and intricate best, featuring bagpipes, clarinet, saxophone, taragoto, trumpet, drums, accordion, upright bass, viola and violin. The show will include stunning new music, reworkings of traditional Hungarian and Balkan folk songs, and material from AHAAH’s back catalogue.AHAAH’s incandescent third album, The Way The Wind Blows, was part recorded in remote Romanian village with members of the Balkan folk group Fanfare Cioc?rlia. Its release last year to critical acclaim boosted an already feverish word of mouth reputation, further enhanced by a headline slot at The Green Man festival.
ELECTRELANE deliver a live set where dirty guitar riffs, heavy bass-lines, clattering piano and a centred, building drum beat weave and climax in a thrilling nu-wave, garage-rock and krautrock-esq combined assault…
Their sound sails through and chops up many genres, atmospheres and textures. It finds itself in a kind of otherworldliness well above the confines of the pigeon- holed. It?s loud and quiet, aggressive and calming, menacing and sweet, slow paced yet frenzied. Above all it?s startlingly beautiful and unique.
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Hot act and a must see at SXSW recently Malajube are a Canadian pop-rock quintet that in 2004 quietly impressed hungry listeners with their debut record Le Compte Complet and more recently has drawn a wide amount of praise for their second album Trompe-l’Oeil, springing out of the already artistically rich local music scene, with their unique and original sound.
Scratchmaster, illustrator, graphic artist, film maker, puppet master and musician KID KOALA flies in from Vancouver, Canada to play a rare and bind blowing set using four turntables of cut up samples, scratching, beat juggling as he smoothly mixes jazz standards played by drunken horn players from New Orleans to hip hop from the other side and ska like you never imagined it… its quick, witty and technically absurd!!