Fiery young Scots rockers (no clichés here) We Were Promised Jetpacks play The Roadhouse tonight – highly recommended if you haven’t seen them live. I first saw them supporting Frightened Rabbit at Night and Day last year and was impressed by the...

As previously reported Pere Ubu, the avant-garage art-rockers from Cleveland, Ohio, have been mightily opposed to their material appearing on You Tube or elsewhere. However news from the Ubu Projex website: Recently there has been a change of policy...

Highly recommended to escape the wintry weather tonight in Manchester: the gorgeous instrumental post-folk of Tim and Sam's Tim and the Sam Band With Tim and Sam. Despite the tongue-twisting name I've always had a soft spot for Tim and Sam's Tim and...

Tune-Yards (or tUnE-yArDS to be correct) is the musical alias of Merrill Garbus and her debut album on 4AD "Bird-brains" is out today. It is an astonishingly animated experimental pop record that is soothing and unsettling in equal measure - and comes...

Seeing The Miserable Rich only 3 weeks after seeing the band play in a church in Salford feels like a luxury. Seeing them for FREE feels like sheer indulgence. This was a Red Deer Club night - three acts for nowt, with a cup passed around for...