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Sad news, post rock fans. Maybeshewill are calling it a day after a decade of service to the good-time instrumental cause. The band are currently putting together their final tour, culminating at Koko, London on 15th April 2016, so there's still plenty of time to pay your respects. Check out the full statement from Maybeshewill below. 'When we started this band over a decade ago it was just a bedroom project that we never really imagined playing live with. Every...

Sleaford Mods are scheduled to play at Banksy’s much talked about Dismaland this Friday, an event that frontman Jason Williamson has personally been looking forward to ahead of their Key Markets UK tour this month: "I got asked about 8 months ago if Sleaford fancied playing an art exhibition. I asked who's it was and got told whose it was and I thought yes, why not? I thought it was really good that we'd been asked. Why shouldn't I think...

Viet Cong, the Calgary-based quartet —recently short-listed for Canada’s' prestigious Polaris Music Prize,— have revealed their brand new video for “'Bunker Buster'”, directed by Yoonha Park. It's a heady mish-mash of twitchy-faced mannequins, smoking starlets and milky blood. Who are you to resist? If Viet Cong's “'Bunker Buster'” elicits the images of a nighttime urban hellscape littered with lost souls, it does so with its dissected, angular rhythms and existential lyrics. Taking these visual cues even further, director Yoonha Park gives the song a...

By Ben Gelblum (@BenGelblum) Hackney’s most exclusive riding club are EastHam-born DJ Jawa and This Ain’t Bristol’s globetrotting DJ and UK House producer Billy Kenny. Hackney Polo Club trotted out of Upper Clapton - Hackney’s Murder Mile - and into a banging residency at Shoreditch’s capital of fun The Book Club, with a stack of well-received releases, and a banging new “tech-house meets dancehall” EP, Babylon Must Fall out soon. Expect to hear a lot more from Hackney’s finest export....

By Eleanor Stammeijer (@ElStammjamm) Indie folk meets electronic, the ‘celestial pop’ or Farao’s Till It’s All Forgotten is a vocally hypnotic, texturally rich release. Helmed by Grammy Award Winner Andrew Scheps, known for his work with artists like Lana Del Ray and Hozier, Farao walks an airier and more other-worldly line, an essence that is laced throughout its tracks. There are moments in Till It’s All Forgotten that aim to disarm. Kari Jahnsen’s emotional vocals provide a counterpoint to the harsher...

By Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey) The lens through which FKA twigs gazes on the world is a twisted one. A collision of experimental noise and sugary melody, high fashion, body horror, contortion and mutated R&B; this is M3LL155X. The latest EP/video project from FKA twigs, M3LL155X arrives with the assured cool of an auteur secure in their vision. In many ways the EP is business as usual for twigs; electronic R&B distorted through a prism of progressive pop as lyrics drape over...

A gig photographer needs to be made of sturdy stuff. A dedicated tog must have the will to heft their gear on a nightly basis to the best (read: rowdiest) shows in town, risking lens and limb for the killer shot. All of the above – not a problem for Canterbury’s Rich Broome, a seasoned gig photographer who’s more than prepared for the rough-and-tumble of a hardcore club show. Having just completed a successful stint at this year’s Hevy Fest,...

By Declan Roberts (@DeclanMR) Ranging from tales of never-ending love to nightmare party situations, Wirral-based foursome Hooton Tennis Club have made a heart-on-sleeve debut album. As consistency goes, HTC are the kings. As you progress through twelve tracks of wonderful titles, the slacker-pop of Howler and ‘I Should Coco’-era Supergrass springs to mind as Highest Point In Cliff Town gives us a breadth of skater-boy indie jams. ‘I’m Not Going Roses Again’ give us insight into a particularly disastrous night...

The weather has turned, festival season is in its death throes, and the debut from USA Nails is on its way, writhing and retching its way towards us in a haze of weird dread. TLE were at ArcTanGent this year to catch the band's set and soak up their darkly humorous and nihilistic noise-rock. The new tracks aired there had us feeling all tingly inside, like a water balloon filled with tapeworms. Hopefully the video for 'I Am Normal' will...