Lankum announce new single a cover of The Specials’ ‘Ghost Town’ Watch the Leonn Ward directed video here 12” vinyl single out January 30th (photo credit: Sorcha Frances Ryder – double click to download Hi Res…
Glen Matlock tells John Robb what it was like to be a teenage Sex Pistol. On November 8th Sky Channel will be showing ‘I Was A Teenage Sex Pistol’. The film is based on the novel written by Glen Matlock and follows his journey as a founding member of the influential punk band the Sex Pistols. Having co-written ten of twelve songs on their only studio album, NEVER MIND THE BOLLOCKS, Matlock’s contribution was essential to…
Shapes Like People: Supergirl (Jangleshop Records) DL/Streaming Available 31st October Wiltshire based duo Shapes Like People return with Supergirl, their firt new material since their debut album Ticking Haze. 2025 began with Shapes Like People, The Shop Window’s lead vocalist/guitarist Carl Mann and his Kiwi wife Kat, coming together musically for their collection Ticking Haze. As the year draws to a close, they realease the first single to be taken from their next album, Under the Rainbow, which…
Zombina And; The Skeletones: In Sinistereo (Nine x Nine Records) Ltd LP | CD | DL Rel Date: 31st October 2025 4.0 out of 5.0 stars4.0 31st October – It’s All Hallows Eve, the start of Allhallowtide, a religious period dedicated to remembering the dead, including lost saints and martyrs… but more importantly, its release day for In Sinistereo – a collection of tracks from Liverpool’s horror fiends, Zombina And The Skeletones. The sixteen ghoul-laden tracks were initially…
New release Lisa O’Neill ‘The Wind Doesn’t Blow This Far Right’ (Rough Trade Records) DL only out now LTW reviewed O’Neill’s last album, All Of This Is Chance in Feb 2023, here. She provided music for Peaky Blinders, but Ged Babey has only now discovered her thanks to a friends recommendation. This is the most beautiful song you will hear today… and tomorrow, and the day after. It’s the voice, the words, the arrangement…. everything. It’s a song…
Johnny Marr Live Music Hall : Cologne Oct 26 2025 Live Review This Chiming Man Johnny Marrvelous is doing what he does best as he peals off those dancing guitar lines in a packed dancehall in Germany. His guitar is one of pop culture’s iconic sounds, and he makes it look so effortless as the notes cascade, giving the songs new and old a familiar and iconic flavour. Tonight, the past…
Lunamotos: ¡Whooow! (Action Weekend / Sunnyboy 66 / Wild Cave) LP | DL Out 3rd November 2025 Spanish pure garage rock revivalists Lunamotos return with ¡Whooow!, an album that will satiate all those who march to the fuzz. I said it seven years ago, but I will never stop hammering home that Spain is one of the best meccas to flock to for fantastic garage rock n roll. Douse yourself in a litre of calimocho and rip up the…
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photo by Leon Chew CABARET VOLTAIRE REDUX STEPHEN MALLINDER & CHRIS WATSON ANNOUNCE DETAILS OF THEIR FINAL UK TOUR – OCTOBER 2026 WITH SUPPORT FROM GAZELLE TWIN CABARET VOLTAIRE LIVE – 2026 10 October – Birmingham Town Hall 11 October – Liverpool Arts Club 13 October – Nottingham Rock City 14 October – Cardiff Tramshed 15 October – Bath Forum 17 October – Newcastle Boiler Shop 18 October – Glasgow Barrowland 19 October – Manchester Albert Hall 21 October – Bexhill…
Gillian Welch & David RawlingsO2 Apollo, Manchester25th October 2025 The Grammy-winning pair’s first Manchester show in fourteen years powerfully evokes the American heartland Gillian Welch is nothing if not authentic. As she gazes out at a sold-out Manchester Apollo, there’s one particular quote that springs to mind for her. “As my friend Buck White once said, you sure could stack a lot of hay in here!” White was an icon of bluegrass, having led his band The Whites,…
The Damned announce special new covers album – “Not Like Everybody Else” in tribute to Brian James – out 23rd January 2026 on earMUSIC. First single “There’s A Ghost In My House” is out 30th October – in time for Halloween. Also – a one-off covers only show at Albert Hall, Manchester on 28th January 2026! This is a deeply personal and celebratory covers album dedicated to Brian James, the band’s legendary founding guitarist, who passed away on 6th March 2025. Recorded in just five days at Revolver Studio, Los Angeles, it marks the first…
Bob Dylan: Through The Open Window – The Bootleg Series, Vol. 18 1956-63 (Columbia Records / Legacy Recordings) CD | LP | DL Released on 31 October 2025 PRE-ORDER HERE Through The Open Window is the latest chapter in Bob Dylan’s Bootleg Series, this time covering the period 1956-63. Serving as a perfect accompaniment to the recent Dylan biopic which covered the period 1961-65, this is another vast collection of songs from the archives which oversees his transformation from…