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The Great Escape Festival, Brighton, May 16-18. 350 Bands over 30+ venues!
Just 2 weeks before the UK's answer to SXSW takes over Brighton, the organisers of The Great Escape have ...
Preview: DJ Yoda, Concorde2, 11th March
This Yoda, a powerful force, has he. Oh. Hold on. I think I may have the wrong bloke. If I could just check Wikipedia ...
Preview: The Pigeon Detectives, Coalition, May 10
Life must be hard for The Pigeon Detectives. Having formed back in the mists of the 2004, their fledgling (sorry) career ...
Release Review – “Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor”, Rob Zombie, Album, Out Now
Why can’t Coldplay, just for once, release a song called ‘Teenage Nosferatu Pussy’? Seriously, I promise if they did, I’d actually ...
Release Review: “Mosquito”- Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Album, available now
Watching the Yeah Yeah Yeahs perform the title track to the recently released ‘Mosquito’, their forth studio album, I find ...
Deptford Goth @ Unitarian Church, Sat 11th May
Catch a bargain moment of heart-stirring singer-songwriting as rising talent Deptford Goth's already cavernous, electronic melancholia echoes across the Unitarian ...
St Pierre Snake Invasion – Everyone’s Entitled To My Opinion EP Released
The St Pierre Snake Invasion have released their "Everyone's Entitled To My Opinion" EP! Check out the video ... For more information ...
Preview – King Porter Stomp, Blind Tiger, May 4th
The subject of sovereignty provided the plays of William Shakespeare with numerous and popular protagonists, the politics of royal courts ...
Release Review – “Shaking The Habitual”, The Knife, Album, out now.
Sweden has never been short of enigmatic artists. From Henrik Ibsen, to Agnetha Fältskog, through to Sarah Lund’s thought provoking ...
Death Grips at Coalition, Friday May 3
Catch hip hop's most brutal experimenters at Coalition on Friday for a lethal dose of anarcho-rave industrial doom - it ...
XYZ News
St Pierre Snake Invasion – Everyone’s Entitled To My Opinion EP Released The St Pierre Snake Invasion have released their “Everyone’s Entitled To My Opinion” EP! Check out the video … For more information about the band check out their website at tspsi.co.uk SHARE! Recommend on Facebook Share on Linkedin Share via MySpace Tweet about it Bookmark in Browser Tell a friend
XYZ Interviews
Interview: The Staves 3 girls singing 3-part harmonies, The Staves have been whipping up a storm with their tour and the recent release of their new album. XYZ catch up with the girls late in London, as they recover from a gig and after party, to talk about their album & their next show. You play in [...]
XYZ Picks: What’s Coming Up
Preview: DJ Yoda, Concorde2, 11th March This Yoda, a powerful force, has he. Oh. Hold on. I think I may have the wrong bloke. If I could just check Wikipedia for a second, and. . . . ah. . . . yes. . . . ok, bear with me a moment, please. Right then. This ‘DJ’ Yoda, an impressive night planned at [...]
XYZ Release Reviews
Release Review – “Venomous Rat Regeneration Vendor”, Rob Zombie, Album, Out Now Why can’t Coldplay, just for once, release a song called ‘Teenage Nosferatu Pussy’? Seriously, I promise if they did, I’d actually buy, (well OK, download), one of their turgid MOR leavings for once in my sorry life. But no, the delicate art of creating pop monikers of such depth and profundity has to be left [...]
Live Reviews
Reader Review: King Charles Live @ Haunt 17/04/13 Nearly one year after his stunning debut album, King Charles’ reign over the UK is still going strong, and rightly so. Suited to his name, King Charles Graced the Brighton haunt with his eccentric and witty presence that attracted a procession of teenagers and this particular date had sold out. The evening would generally showcase [...]
XYZ FIRST HEARD With 7pm
First Heard: With 7pm Management Seven Webster & Claire Lloyd from music management company 7pm ask the industry which acts we should look out for. Adam Lewis – (Planetary Group) Gung Ho Both singles “Twin Rays” and “Side by Side” from this Australian indie guitar act have been successful down under, and have received a huge amount of airplay on [...]
Win Stuff!
Win TGE tickets! Join XYZ Magazine and The Great Escape Festival at The Green Door Store to celebrate the official launch of The Great Escape Festival, Europe’s biggest new music festival in Brighton. Catch some of the freshest and most exciting Brighton acts set to play during the festival 16-18th of May. Want a chance to win tickets [...]
XYZ WYLT
Fat Boy Slim – What Are You Listening To? What are You Listening To? “C.W Stoneking – an Australian who sings the blues like it was 1936. For pleasure I just go back to really old stuff. Anything old, dirty and black. Like blues, ska, really early dub and funk. Basically anything that doesn’t sound like what I do for a living!.” Fatboy Slim, [...]
INFO Music Tours & Shows
Sonic Boom Six @ Audio; Sun Feb 10 This outspoken Manchesterband literally burst their way from the underground straight into the mainstream with an authentic rock sound that’s as perfectly well at home on the dancefloor. Their aggressive and powerful presence has gained them a seat at the tables of UK punk and rock, as well as industry acclaim and radio play. This [...]
INFO Festivals
The Great Escape Festival, Brighton, May 16-18. 350 Bands over 30+ venues! Just 2 weeks before the UK’s answer to SXSW takes over Brighton, the organisers of The Great Escape have announced that 1, 2 and 3-day festival tickets have now sold out, with around 16,000+ music fans expected in Brighton, May 16th-18th. With 350 of the hottest new acts spread across over 30+ different venues, the [...]
INFO Club nights
Attic Monkeys VS DJ Lanx at: Black Lion, Sat Dec 1 Attic Monkeys VS Stop Go!’s DJ Lanx at: Black Lion, Saturday December 1 The Black Lion, crouched in the middle of Brighton’s famous Lanes district hosts a deck-to-deck throwdown. Two top DJs will be spinning a mix of funk, soul, rock and indie vinyl with a sprinkling of hip hop, ska, electronica and funk. The [...]
INFO Arts
One Hundred & Forty Characters @ Space@Create The internationally active photo-portrait artist Chris Floyd is the subject of the new exhibition running at Space@Create. Based off of the realisation that Floyd’s only communication with his friends for over a month stemmed from social media, the project takes its name from the character limit of a Tweet, and is an oblique reference to [...]
INFO Upcoming Releases
Alt-J – Dissolve Me The first single since the Mercury award win, this composition is another piece of production wizardry, blending acoustic and electronic techniques with a seamless pulsating groove that soothes with a quiet clockwork intensity. As with the album, the analogue warmth makes for a comforting listen, but it’s the songwriting which falls short on this track, [...]
Other stuff
OMD light the way for 12th album Expert electronica wizards OMD step out of the dark with their twelfth album this April. Titled ‘English Electric’, the twelve-track electro-pop LP. The album will be available as a standard CD release, a deluxe boxset, a limited edition boxset, a vinyl impress, and of course a digital release. After playing the 2012 Olympics, they’re set [...]
