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COCTEAU TWINS Competition -

Our friends at Vinyl 180 are currently working on reissuing Treasure, one of the many classic albums from Cocteau Twins, on 180g vinyl. More details on this are to follow but for one lucky subscriber, you can win a copy of a rare test pressing.

To stand a chance...

Cranes live on stage again -

Alison Shaw and her brother Jim are the solid backbone of Cranes, a band that twenty years ago debuted with the album 'Self Non Self'. The band from Portsmouth, UK, has a big and loyal group of followers. Their music can be described between new wave and gothic; atmospheric, melancholic...

La Route Du Rock Bill -

French festival La Route Du Rock has announced the first bands on its bill for this summer, with My Bloody Valentine, The Horrors and more set to keep the crowds entertained.

The French can't do festivals, that's the received wisdom of the blinkered British music fan. How can a nation...

JOHN FOXX & ROBIN GUTHRIE Presents Mirrorball -

Like John Foxx's recent A Secret Life album with Steve Jansen (ex- Japan), his collaboration with Robin Guthrie was an idea that began when the pair performed at a Harold Budd concert in May 2005. Layers of echoes and reverberations are explored on Mirrorball, so that Guthrie's unique playing merges...

ENGELSSTAUB Rerelease -

A milestone of dark romantic, folk-influenced music is now being re-released. With their album „Ignis Fatuus: Irrlichter“ German band ENGELSSTAUB created a fascinating piece of dark music. Based on trance-like percussion basements, beautiful and softly plugged acoustic guitars create impressive folk melodies. Medieval flutes and the male-female vocal dualism rise...

Lushlife - Cassette City -

Perhaps best known for his Kanye-meets-Beach Boys West Sounds experiment a few years back, multi-instrumentalist songwriting MC Lushlife has crafted a sophomore record in Cassette City that wholly personifies his unique moniker. Choosing to work outward from a loose sense of full-bodied hip hop sensibilities, the trained jazz composer lets...

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