Four Demons is an EP of superstitious caterwauling from Ruby Tingle, a beautiful garden variety witch who has created an artistic outlet for her strange intentions. She makes handmade collages, sculptures and puppets of animals and humans in unusual scenes. These lean towards her macabre fascinations. Peruse her artwork; it exhibits a grotesque and vaudevillian [...]

When a new release from a band lands in my inbox, I usually like to have a good dig around. Well, a 10 minute Google at least. Long enough usually to unearth a Facebook or Souncloud account, maybe even a defunct Myspace page with some pictures of the bass player before he lost all that [...]

It seems indie has taken a back seat on the music scene of late; true indie giants such as Tegan and Sara or Fugazi seem to have been lost in the ether. However this has not let Palomino simply sit back and accept indie’s death with their EP ‘We Were Doldrums’. There’s a much more delicate quality to the [...]

Since its madder days, the Manchester music scene appears to have lost much of its buzz with London and Birmingham seemingly leading the way with a brief early naughties emergence in the North of the country. Stalagmites from Salford are bringing the scene back to where it should be with a post Oasis style that [...]

Lets just clear one thing up before we get started. I’m not the same Johnny Lewis that’s the creative force behind Douga. For one thing, he’s got a much cooler addition to his last name than me in the form of ‘Winbolt’. It’s a name that seems to be a combination of ‘Winning’ and Usain [...]

While listening to ‘Disastrochimp’, the new EP from Sheffield trio Great Deeds, I found myself racking my brains for a succinct way to sum up their sound. After much deliberation and scouring of the net, I came across the perfect phrase which would describe this band’s music, and I found it on this very bands [...]

The Start is purposeful pop rather than accidental, Alex writes ‘songs to make people jump around and enjoy life,’ he sings without reservation which means that even if pop is not your genre of choice, this EP might just sway you. The title track feels like a warm summer night at a festival, which cheers [...]

Cleft are a Manchester-based, mental instrumentalist duo. Dan Beesley plays a variety of guitars (not at the same time) and John Simms plays a selection of drums (occasionally at the same time). By their own description, Cleft are a ‘turbo-prog’ band. They produce tracks sounding like 14 minute long prog-rock epics condensed into palatable 3 [...]

From: Manchestaaaa Members: Steven Dobb (Vox and Guitars), Lorna Blundell (Drums), Ollie Smith (Bass), Sally Mason (guest vocals) Look Like: Nice People. Look, they’ve got woolly hats on in their pictures on Facebook and everything. They must be some kind of folk band that sell potted jam to keep their hippy van topped up with [...]

The 3 man outfit from Leeds, Irish Joe on vocals, Lee Turner on guitar and Dom McCready keeping pace on drums. A collaboration born out of bands like Jon Jones and the Beatniks Movement, The Bacchae and Black Moth; not content with keeping within the parameters of metal, they know what they want however and [...]