Booming electro-synth duo, LA's wonderfully named NGUZUNGUZU (pronounced en-goo-zoo-en-goo-zoo) have released details about an upcoming EP on Hippos In Tanks. The EP is the follow-up to last year's 'Timesup' extended player on producer Kingdom's label Fade To Mind, and is described brilliantly in the press release as being watched over by "the unlikely holy trinity of Philip Glass, Bone Thugs-N-Harmony and The X-Files." Sounds good to us! You'll be able to grab a copy digitally on 3rd July, and on vinyl and CD a little bit later on 14th August. Check out the tracklisting for the ...

Highlights: Alt-J, I Am The Cosmos / Ships split launch, White Collar Boy’s launch, Trinity Orchestra perform Radiohead, Walls, Paul Kalkbrenner, Africa Day and Life Festival. This is the weekly list of recommended gigs taking place over the next seven … Read More... →

Cancer for Cure begins by making you feel as if you’re slowly waking up from a nightmare. An encroaching tension grows around you as the sound of an alarm pulls you into the grip of El-P’s reality, then suddenly a voice comes on the loudspeaker and tells you to get your ass outta bed and into the yard. Wake up! The revolution started yesterday - you’re late! Here’s an update: we’re losing, and the reality is worse than the nightmare. “Request Denied” takes off and doesn’t slow down for 3 minutes at which point El ...

I was completely transfixed when I saw Elizabeth , which is when I was first introduced to the extraordinary actress known as Cate Blanchett.  When I think about her career, it’s amazing to me how diverse it’s been.  She’s played practically every role imaginable from an elf to a queen to Bob Dylan to Katherine Hepburn.  She’s different all the time and she’s a phenomenal character actress with a leading lady’s career.  As I was thinking about Blanchett’s great roles, I started to recall some of the great leading roles by women in film ...

What would Bob Lefsetz say? Austin Chronicle : Standing on the corner of Fourth and Trinity amid the jostling throngs of South by Southwest, Quiet Company doesn’t draw much attention against the blasts of noise and marketing that swirl around them. The local quintet is unassuming save for a cardboard placard that announces “Free Hugs From Quiet Company.” Most of the crowd rushes by, tactfully immune to the maze of street teams, fliers, and reverse panhandling flooding Austin for the annual music festival. The young band draws a few ebullient individuals into its arms, inviting them to free shows that ...

Latest acts to schedule an appearance in Dublin 8 over the June bank holiday weekend for the Forbidden Fruit soiree are as follows: Saturday Shit Robot (the Marcus Lambkin show) Horse Meat Disco Stay+ Sunday Little Green Cars (looking forward to hearing their new material from forthcoming Glassnote album) Trinity Orchestra (performing “Dark Side of [...]

BLOCK T have a festival lined up for the 25th to the 27th of this month to promote and celebrate the art and people in the community of Smithfield and nearby in Dublin. The last few years have seen the … Read More... →

WHAT: The touring day-long multi-venue festival takes on/over Bristol, Nottingham and Manchester WHY: Every year they could just book whoever major labels throw at them, but instead there's always more than a sprinkling of fascinating, usually American names WHEN: 2nd-4th June WHERE: 2nd: Bristol O2 Academy, Thekla, Louisiana, Trinity, Fleece and Start The Bus 3rd: Nottingham Rock City, Rescue Rooms, Stealth, Bodega and Jongleurs 4th: Manchester Ritz, Deaf Institute, Academy and Sound Control HOW: £20 WHO: Islet, Summer Camp, Willis Earl Beal, Friends (Nottingham only), Wavves, Pulled Apart By Horses, Beth Jeans Houghton (Bristol), Clock Opera, Hooray For ...

On Saturday May 5th, The 405 headed down (well...up) to Leeds to cover Live At Leeds festival, which is a multi-venue city festival full of relatively new bands such as Novella, all the way through to big hitters such as Los Campesinos! (or Example if you fancied buying a separate ticket...which we didn't). With other festivals such as Camden Crawl, Sounds From The Other City, Simple Things and Land of Kings (all of which were city festivals) all taking place on the same weekend, how did LAL hold up? Read on to read about some of the ...

Live at Leeds reached the grand old age of six this weekend, bands and music fans came from miles around to take over Leeds and check out acts from every angle of the musical spectrum. The conundrum for the Live at Leeds festival goers is that there are great bands in great venues all over the city, the punter has to learn not to be greedy, or alternatively put the trainers on and run from place to place, in order to get everything in. Leeds solo act Soul Mates Never Die AKA Josh Lewis, broke in the downstairs of matchbox ...

Trinity Roots' trading company in their name has gone into liquidation after amassing a debt of nearly 100k. Two thirds of what they owe is purely fines and interest charged by the IRD based on unpaid taxes  and missing GST returns from back in the groups hey-day in the early 2000s. It's...

Toronto outfit The Wooden Sky have been churning out well-received melodic pastoral folk rock for a little while now. On February 28th they offer up their latest installment with the awkwardly titled Every Child A Daughter, Every Moon A Sun. Melodic and pastoral is exactly what we get out of the gates with the lead track, "Child of the Valley". Unfortunately, The Wooden Sky suffers from a common problem with modern folk-based acts. They approach these songs with an earnestness that demands a slow, methodical pace. The arrangements, therefore, become predictable and bland. "City Of Light", "Bald, Naked and Red ...

Claw The Thin Ice From: Manchester, United Kingdom Ian Breen, the founder member of the recently expanded Manchester foursome Claw The Thin Ice , suffers from a unique form of musical attention deficit disorder. In addition to CTTI he somehow manages to simultaneously be in at least three bands that I'm aware of ( Well Wisher ,recently featured on the Devil's blog, Wishing Well , Borland and Day For Airstrikes ) and possibly many more I'm not. Impressively each band is completely different, operating in a different genre. Wishing Well are Emo with a sense of humour, Borland are electronic, Day ...

Anything Brodinski can do, Horsepower can do better. Horsepower are trinity of well-established producers including Bart B More, Tommie Sunshine & RipTide.

Trinity Centre Bristol – 01/05/12 Things have been going rather well for Red Shoes">Blood Red Shoes lately, with masses of air play on Radio 1 by the likes of Huw Stephens