EVEN THE STARS

Today we reveal Even The Stars' top ten albums of 2018. These are our favourite records of the year, the ones we returned to time aft...

The list that no one was waiting for. Over the next two days we reveal our top twenty albums of the year. Regular readers of the blog won...

John Bramwell brought his Full Harmonic Convergence project to the intimate surroundings of Gorilla for a sold-out show where he unveiled...

The sold-out signs for The Slow Readers Club’s biggest headline show to date went up three months ago. Their journey has been one of the ...

Jack Oliver Monty recently released a single The Garden. Julia Grantham takes a listen to the track and three others that he's put...

Last night saw The Slow Readers Club back in the big smoke for the second time this year, and the fourth time since Clive Lambert has bee...

The first live outing since announcing their full time status and big UK tour sees The Slow Readers Club in fine form, as they storm thro...

James continued their tour with The Charlatans at a packed out Manchester Arena on Saturday night. A career-spanning set saw them deliver...

Ethan And The Reformation return with a new single Wild-Minded Woman released today ahead of an intimate show at Jimmy's in Mancheste...

James and The Charlatans opened up their four-date UK tour in the cavernous surroundings of the Hydro in Glasgow. Both bands delivered se...

The Lucid Dream end the first leg of their Actualisation tour on a high. Stuart Ralston popped down to see a band continuing their ascend...

The refined surroundings of the Bartorelli Room at the Bridgewater Hall were a fitting location for Little Sparrow's long-awaited ret...

"This is a better Monday than you thought you'd have" laughs Tom Ogden half way through Blossoms' intimate warm up show...

Rory Wynne headlined the fourth Head In The Clouds event on Thursday night supported by Puppet Theory and Provocateurs. Three very ...

For someone who's spent the summer supporting The Killers in stadiums, the Eagle Inn in Salford is an intimate venue to witness Juani...

Sick & Tired and Flip It Over is the new double A-side release from Blanketman following on from their debut release The Long Arm Of ...

 "We're so proud of this transnational feminist music collaboration. It really was a labour of love made possible by the generou...

One-Way Song release their Passionate Leave EP on November 27th. Ahead of that, they shared with us the story of the five songs that will...

However cold it is outside, a sold out gig at the Night And Day in Manchester is always an intense sweltering affair and Pip Blom's t...

No Future (Part II) is the new single from Manchester's Hey Bulldog. Clocking in at close to seven and a half minutes, it's the b...

Exist is the lead track from Ist Ist's forthcoming second EP due early next year to coincide with their Everything Is Different Now t...

Ahead of their sold out UK tour next month, The Slow Readers Club have released one of the stand out tracks from their top 20 album Build...

Rews made a triumphant return to Manchester for a sold-out show at the intimate Castle Hotel on the opening night of their UK tour. With ...

Mandy is the latest single from Bury's Urban Theory. Already a live favourite, Mandy sees them take the foot off the accelerator from...

Kashmere's UK tour called in at Record Junkee in Sheffield on Friday night. Julia Grantham made the short trip down from Leeds to cat...

Walking into The Cheshire Tap in Altrincham this Saturday just gone, I was filled with a nervous kind of anticipation and excitement. My ...

Matter Of Mind’s first nationwide tour headed home on Friday night with a packed show for This Feeling at the Night And Day in Manchester...

The Blinders’ tour rolled into Preston on Thursday night with White Room and Sweet Deals In Surgery in tow. In possibly the most intim...

Lust is the second single from Australian sister duo The Bambi Kills. The follow-up to their debut Headlights is a full-on affair with by...

Matter Of Mind release a new single Just A Stranger to coincide with their first nationwide tour in conjunction with This Feeling includi...

Billy Fisher Fitzgerald is the lead track from One Way Song's forthcoming EP Passionate Leave which we're delighted to be asked t...

To celebrate the launch of his new single and title track from his forthcoming second album Then Lightning, Mano McLaughlin played an int...

Conversation is the new single from Manchester five-piece Kaze. Released recently to coincide with World Mental Health Day, the lyrics ar...

Stranger Things is the second album from Gypsyfingers, the follow-up to their debut Circus Life. As they prepared for the release, Vict...

Alone Again is the new single from Bolton singer-songwriter James Holt. With a video shot in the basement club Night People in Manchester...

Then Lightning is the first track to be revealed from Mano McLaughlin's forthcoming album of the same name. Its release coincides wit...

James today released the latest in the series of acoustic versions of tracks taken from their top ten album Living In Extraordinary Times...

With the release of their eighth studio album Islands, Ash are back on the road and we caught the penultimate show of their UK tour at Th...

Bugeye return with a new single Disco Dancer out on December 7th. The London band have expanded to a four-piece and this is the first rel...

Fresh from the various chart successes of her independently released fourth album Brace For Impact, She Makes War made her way to Manches...

OLA returned to Soup Kitchen on Friday night to launch their new single Orenda with an hour-long set of old and new material full of expe...

LIINES opened Dave Haslam's WAM (Words And Music) Festival at the Night And Day in Manchester with a fourteen-song set featuring all ...

OLA (One Little Atlas) headline Soup Kitchen in Manchester tonight. We caught up with Kevan for a chat about the gig and their new single...

Aorta Songs Part 1 is the first fruit of the Lights On Moscow collaboration between Hazel Wilde of Lanterns On The Lake and Justin Lockey...