Author: manvmusic
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Elbow and Easy Life announced for Glastonbury’s Pilton Party
Elbow and Easy Life have been announced as headliners for this year’s Glastonbury Pilton Party. Both acts will perform at the Worthy Farm bash, which will be held for the first time since 2019, on September 2. They also appeared on the Pyramid Stage during the summer. Every September, a few bands return to Worthy Farm for the annual bash, which is […]
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M83: ‘Hurry Up, We’re Dreaming’ review – embracing perfection
There’s not many albums that you can mark as perfection. Like a fine wine, it has to hit all the right sweet spots. All those sweet spots being a perfect soundtrack embellished in a recording that you cannot stop putting down. I don’t think any album is more perfect to receive a 5-star engraving than […]
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your new rock this week.
01/08: As we stagger into August, we are hit with a final flurry of a rockin’ summer. Take a glimpse at some of our picks this week.. Kid Kapichi. 5 days on (2 days off). You can’t have a what’s new list in rock without talking about these boys. Everything exciting right now about ‘beat […]
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Now THIS was a gig!
That’s right, folks. I went to a gig over the weekend. Peggy’s Skylight, Nottingham: Me and Mrs Jones, 24/07. A sunday afternoon jazz gig, no less. I had the absolute pleasure of witnessing a real power jazz trio produce some magnificent work at Nottingham’s very own convivial jazz club Peggy’s Skylight – all the while […]
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Viagra Boys – ‘Cave World’ review: post-punk at its finest
Cave World. An eclectic project of stir-crazy dilution living as a hermit unbeknown to the world or aware of what surrounds it. There’s no two ways to describe Viagra Boys’ music to the average passer-by or to the generic dabbler of music. Basically, this Swedish sextet – of formally classically trained jazz musicians – essentially […]
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