EVEN THE STARS

James opened their short two-date tour of Portugal with a sold out show at the Multiusos de Guimaraes and a nod to the local Pinheiro f...

From There To Here is the soundtrack to the BBC TV drama of the same name, set in the aftermath of the 1996 Manchester bomb.  It features...

An ornate historic Portuguese railway station in the centre of the country's second city isn't your traditional gig venue, but Ja...

The Miserable Rich are back with a double album - a live album recorded in Frankfurt on their 2012 tour and an album of cover versions re...

Twenty-five years on from its release, Jesus Jones' debut album Liquidizer gets a deluxe 2 cd plus dvd re-issue.  As perhaps the defi...

Take one of early 2000s agit-pop nearly-made-its Easyworld and add a singer who's been touring the UK as Buddy Holly for the past cou...

Sixty Minute Man are a six-piece Manchester band readying their debut EP for release with the preview of a song from it called Weightless...

Scotland's finest play their second sell out gig of the weekend in Glasgow's most celebrated venue.

The last leg of James’ UK tour saw them head to Leeds First Direct Arena for a Sunday night set of hits, tracks from La Petite Mort and a...

One of THE great British bands, The House of Love return with a live document.

Saturday night in Birmingham and we’re in the soulless pit of the NIA waiting for James to transcend the appalling organization of the pl...

There's a story in music legend about when Dylan went electric and completely changed his music that had made him popular.  Headlinin...

The Miserable Rich continued their German/Austrian tour with a show in Wiesbaden at the Schlachthof.  Gudrun from Karlsruhe very kindly o...

The Miserable Rich are one of our favourite bands and since they took a break in 2012, we've been nagging them to get back together. ...

The James La Petite Mort tour rolled into London last night with the first of two sold-out shows, the first at the Royal Albert Hall bef...

Ahead of their forthcoming UK tour with The Crookes, Laurel Canyons release their new EP Now We're Rebuilding, their first since sign...

We've been fans of David Ford back from his days in agit-poppers Easyworld and through ten years and four albums of his solo career. ...

After the arenas of the weekend, James crammed a couple of thousand Geordies into the Newcastle Academy for a long sold-out show and pu...

Even The Stars favourite David Ford is back with a new record.  The seven-track download and CD The Arrangement has been recorded with a...

Saturday night in Glasgow is no place for the faint-hearted and so James got (most of) their hits out for one of the biggest shows of t...

As James' La Petite Mort tour reaches its first weekend, the size of venues grows as they enter arena territory starting at Liverpool...

Hookworms release their second LP The Hum just a year after their first, yet show no signs of difficult second album ...

Having just released a second track entitled Arthur, the digital b-side to her first track Lucid, Kelly Lee Owens has marked herself out a...

This week Emma Stevens released her second album Waves.  We caught up with her for a chat about the making of the record.

The Reveurs have been steadily building a following over the past twelve months.  Their second official release Control is out on Monday ...

Cambridge Corn Exchange is the setting for the first sold-out night of James' La Petite Mort tour. Armed with a full sound and lightin...

James opened their La Petite Mort tour with a sold out show at Oxford's O2 Academy - an intimate venue compared to some of the arenas...

The addition of one of our favourite new bands Blossoms to the James bill for the opening night of their La Petite Mort tour was a pleas...

City Reign are back with their second single of the year, Disappear, and are headlining the Deaf Institute this Saturday (15th) in suppor...

It’s been twelve months since Emma Stevens released her debut album Enchanted.    She’s back with Waves, a collection that cemen...

Following on from their acclaimed 2012 debut LP Doll Skin Flag, London trio Desert Ships return with a classic 4 track EP Skyliner which ...

James warmed up for their two-week UK tour with an intimate 600 capacity show at Stirling Albert Halls with a set mixing classic hits, tr...

  We made the short trip over the Pennines to catch three bands who have not forgotten the art of creating simple emotive pop music t...

Hailed as psych revivalists by some, Two Skies release the follow-up single to their acclaimed Red EP next week just eight months later.  ...

To celebrate the life and legacy of John Peel ten years after his passing, Dub Sex played Sound Control in Manchester as part of a series ...

Cambridgeshire 4 piece Velvet Woods release their self titled debut LP today and it's an impressive first full-length record.

Coves & Caves hail from Manchester and the Peak District and after four years of expanding then shrinking and experimenting, they...

Written over a 3 week period in a former industrial Mancunian heartland, Finnish Line is the fourth full length album from  Mancunian sin...

Temple Invisible are a dark electronic band from Bucharest, Romania.  They've just streamed their second song Collide on Soundcloud a...

We've raved about Dave Fidler's brilliant solo debut I'm Not Here for quite some time tonight and last night saw the launch g...

High Hazels released their debut self-titled album yesterday, one of our favourites of the year so far.  We had the opportunity of a br...

The Whisky Sessions are a new festival being held at Victoria Warehouse in Manchester on November 21-22.   Tonight’s Unsigned competitio...

Liam Frost has released his first solo material for five years this week in the form of the Wild Places EP.  We caught up with him to run...

Dave Fidler releases his superb debut album I'm Not Here with a launch gig at Manchester's Whiskey Jar tomorrow night.  He took t...

Ahead of going into the studio to record their second album, Money are playing a series of low-key shows to preview material that will fo...

A Sunday night in the leafy Altrincham suburb of Bowdon isn't the most rock and roll place in the world and neither are The Lottery W...