EVEN THE STARS

As part of her Independent Venue Week tour Jerry Williams returned to Manchester for a sold-out performance in the basement of Jimmy’s...

Weimar's double A-side debut single is released this Friday featuring John Doe and Curse The Songs. Described as being "preoccup...

Desire is the debut single by Manchester-based singer-songwriter Julia Bardo, an impressive sounding song, drenched in 60s vibes and a ti...

The Howl And The Hum played a sold-out show at Manchester's Soup Kitchen on Saturday night supported by Dundee's St Martiins. A s...

This Feeling's January set of gigs championing their biggest tips for 2019 hit a hot and sweaty sold-out Night And Day Cafe in Manche...

Today Leeds five-piece release their debut single Deranged and play a headline show at their hometown Hyde Park Book Club to celebrate. W...

Ahead of their sold-out appearance at This Feeling's Big In 2019 night we caught up with Sheffield's The Seamonsters to discuss t...

Geneva were one of the most underrated bands of their time, caught in the backlash of Britpop around the turn of the century, guilty by ...

As part of promotional duties for the brilliant new album It Won/t Be Like This All The Time The Twilight Sad brought their miserable mus...

Ist Ist return with their second EP Everything Is Different Now released on January 25th ahead of a UK tour including an almost sold-out ...

The Seamonsters might be hitting a load of the tip lists for 2019, but six years into their existence it feels a long time overdue for on...

Brighton-based four-piece Winter Gardens are about to release their debut single Coral Bells. Only a few months into their existence, the...

January 18th 2019 sees the release of It Won/t Be Like This All The Time, the eagerly awaited new album by The Twilight Sad, and fortunat...

Night People has made its mark on the Manchester live scene throughout 2018 and the relative newcomer was the place to be on New Yea...

We first saw Bella Estelle open one of the smaller stages at Victorious Festival in August 2017. Her second single Crazy In Love was rele...

Kent’s The Gallerys have been turning heads down south with shows around the county and in London culminating in a sold out end of year s...

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...