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Talking Heads With: Ben Taylor Founder of YANA Festival

Talking Heads is our regular feature in collaboration with DreaminIsFree, where we talk to folk working across all sectors of the music industry in the north, discussing mental health, well-being, and coping wi...

Album Review: Everything Everything: RE-ANIMATOR

If any band were going to sonically elucidate an obscure psychological theory involving the proposed breakdown of the lateralization of brain functioning marked by the collapse of the Bronze Age... naturally it...

The VLM Playlist: August 2020

It has been particularly fruitful in the debut album department this August with a number of fearsome first records materialising. Alex the Astronaut blew us away with her stellar debut The Theory of Absolutely...

Doves Announce 2021 Comeback Tour

Doves have announced their 13-date comeback tour for March and April 2021, with tickets going on sale Friday, 31 July at 10am. The tour will include dates in Sheffield, Nottingham and a homecoming gig at Man...

Doves Release New Single ‘Prisoners’ and Announce Details of Their Fifth Album

Doves make a powerful comeback after eleven years, sharing a new track and announcing new album The Universal Want. ‘Prisoners’ is the second single from the upcoming album from the Manchester indie band. I...

Blossoms Reschedule UK Tour Dates

Blossoms have rescheduled their UK Tour for a second time. You can view the new dates below. The second half of their tour was initially due to start in March this year before being rescheduled to August. Th...

Everything Everything Share New Track ‘Planets’

It is a decade on since Everything Everything’s debut album, Man Alive. An impressive lifespan from the awash of indie bands that appeared in the late noughties. And they have become so much more, with interest...

Introducing: Five Days North and Their New Single ‘Take Me Higher’

Five Days North are a five piece from Manchester who have been drip feeding their opalescent blend of jangly guitar riffs and sugary pop melodies since 2016. The band have announced that their first new musi...

Introducing: Pacific and Their New Track ‘Last Life’

Pacific are a Manchester based piano-focused rock band, who are carving their own niche in the industry with their blend of utopian alt-rock and indie nuances. They already have famous fans in Huw Stephens, XS ...

Album Review: Badly Drawn Boy – Banana Skin Shoes

Banana Skin Shoes is the ninth album and first studio release in over a decade from Damon Gough also known as Badly Drawn Boy. Since his debut album The Hour of Bewilderbeast won the Mercury Prize in...