We’re soaking up the ambience at the annual LIVERPOOL SOUND CITY festival, now the largest metropolitan music and arts festival in the UK, and an event that Liverpool and the north of England can be very proud of. Continue reading LIVERPOOL SOUND CITY – Taiwan’s TIZZY BAC →

Dee Plume, of British electropunk band ROBOTS IN DISGUISE, is something of a larger than life character, and it is this fact that carries her new act PSYCHO DELIA through their first live outing at the Babble Jar in London’s Stoke Newington tonight. Her new setup also features female drummer ‘The Ward.’ Continue reading PSYCHO DELIA makes London live debut →

MISS KITTIN is the stage moniker of electroclash producer/singer/songwriter/DJ extraordinaire Caroline Hervé, one of a small number of characters who bring a sense of theatrics to the underground of electronic music. Having explored many angles of the genre throughout her two-decade spanning career, Miss Kittin tonight creates an environment that transcends divisions in music, fashion, age and gender, her audience reflecting the diversity of the different stages in her career – from the electro-punks to the ‘lads’ who wouldn’t have looked out of place in Ibiza circa 1999, from the teens to the middle aged. Continue reading MISS KITTIN tantalizes London →

On arrival, things inside Manchester’s claustrophobic Sound Control are already getting steamy – quite literally – with people stripping off layers. We’re here to catch up with CHVRCHES, who since we last saw them at the head of their first UK tour back in February when they were merely a speck of awareness in the Mancunian mind, have been busy spreading their gospel around the UK and beyond. Singer Lauren Mayberry and crew have rapidly gained a top spot on playlists, with the recent release of EP “Recover” helping to flap more ears, and we’re back with them for the closing date in their current tour, again in Manchester, having come full circle. Continue reading CHVRCHES return to Manchester with a buzz bang →