What exactly is “pop music” and why is it actually Editrix? Do not expect calcified recreations of pre-existing bands, even the ones Editrix loves. But if pop is anything to do with melody, well, prepare yourself to be singing along by the second line of each track. If it's defined by rhythm, warn your head not to get caught napping because it will shortly be banging. And if for you pop equals a full-on full-frequency sonic sickness, this one grabs your ears by the ear lapels and never lets go.

Why? Perhaps because Wendy Eisenberg is a genius. This we already knew from their solo work, intricate and delicate as an unexpectedly happened-upon wildflower. How then to emotionally, intellectuality, spiritually process the musical oxymoron that is Editrix? I don't simply refer to the clash of a sick power trio (Steve Cameron on bass, Josh Daniel on drums, Wendy on guitar) grinding against a vocal so exquisitely vulnerable that it intentionally destabilizes itself by starting melodies on the weaker "mi" instead of the stronger "do," never on the downbeat for help, nary a drop off reverb, and always with two Wendys singing at once to make any interpretive microdiscrepancies nakedly audible.

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Editrix + Moni Jitchell

Editrix - Editrix Goes To Hell

Editrix - Editrix Goes to Hell

Editrix

Gigs

Bristol

Crofters Rights

Triptides is shedding the word "psychedelic" from its vocabulary. Maybe because after over a decade of adventurous songs and albums across genres and styles — ranging from bedroom pop to prog rock to Laurel Canyon country — the term "interdimensional" feels more appropriate to the Southern California - based band.

Driven by the songwriting mind of multi - instrumentalist Glenn Brigman with longtime collaborator and multi - instrumentalist Stephen Burns, Triptides is moving through a galaxy of music following only their own compass. And with their latest album, Starlight (coming April 2023 via Curation Records), the duo proves there is a lot more they wish to explore.

In an almost - jazzy fusion of electric keyboard textures and dancefloor grooves, the latest eleven - song LP dips and dives into the worlds of Stereolab, Steely Dan and Cortex. With tightly interwoven rhythm guitars and basslines, coupled with Brigman’s keen sense of melody and harmony, there’s a new energy shining through with Starlight.

It’s quite a departure from last year’s laid back acoustic strummer, So Many Days, and it’s lightyears from the surf - rock - cassette era of the group. But despite the unexpected movements, from the sounds and structures, you can instantly tell that it’s Triptides behind the wheel — ready to launch you to another star.

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Triptides + Windshake + pictureframes

Wake

Windshake

Triptides

Glove

**Ménades** is a punk rock band based in Paris, France. Their name comes from the Maenads, who are feminine mythical figues who would accompany Dionysus (the god of wine) in his celebrations of chaos, drunkenness and all sorts of mythical forces. **Ménades** are a sweaty demonstration of rage, sung by the powerful voice of a chick, an electrical party played by diabolical musicians. They are the children of the Sex Pistols and Niagara. **Ménades** just released their second EP « Cramée » in collaboration with the record label Them Say. They are planning a big European tour in 2023.

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Ménades + It Man

Ménades - Cramée

Ménades - Cramée

menades

Two man everything machine endlessly seeking what-the-fuck aural mesmerism in a maze like arrangement of sound system culture, riffs and pan-cultural psychedelics. Dark primal frequencies are felt and not heard, unremitting circular drums shatter and rebirth whilst vocals provide an astral guide through dizzying new sound worlds.

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Gum Takes Tooth 

Gum Takes Tooth - Small Arms

Gum Takes Tooth

Originating as one man’s attempt to avoid the logistical inconveniences of a band, Alien Nosejob (recording project of Jake Robertson – Ausmuteants, Frowning Clouds, Smarts, School Damage etc.) have completed the 180 and are bringing their four-piece lineup all the way from down under to the floors and couches of Europe.

With a dozen releases to choose from, covering the spectrum from bedroom punk/new-wave/miscellaneous (Paint It Clear) to hardcore (Once Again The Present Becomes The Past) to quite-a-bit-like-AC/DC (Stained Glass) to not-at-all-like-AC/DC (Buffet of Love), their live configuration reflects the consistency and variety of one of rock’s premier home-recording freaks.

Come to ask them patronising questions about kangaroos and jet lag – stay for the hits.

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Alien Nosejob

Alien Nosejob - Post Punk Posers

A singular character in Australian music, sardonic and sentimental, Jack Ladder brings his towering and tender baritone to bear on tales of beauty, love, hope and redemption. A master of musical narrative, he conjures lyrics that celebrate the absurdity of the human condition in songs that groove in subtle ways.

Ladder has toured with and worked alongside some of the brightest names in the business - Bill Callahan, Angel Olsen, John Cale, Sharon Van Etten, Father John Misty, Weyes Blood, Alex Cameron and The Killers.

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Jack Ladder + Alan Power

Cold Feet

Alan Power

Jack Ladder

Public Body + Saloon Dion

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Public Body + Saloon Dion

Table Manners

Public Body - Reset My Password

Saloon Dion

Public Body

Margaritas Podridas (Rotten Daisies) is a rock band formed in Hermosillo, Sonora, which consists of Carolina Enríquez (bass/vocals), Esli Meuly (guitar) and Rafael Armenta (guitar/drums). Their debut album "Porcelain Mannequin" was released in 2018, it is available on all common music platforms and it was released on vinyl. Three years later they released their second album self-titled "Margaritas Podridas" in April of 2021 and they have been very active since, playing important shows in Mexico and United States such as opening for IDLES in Mexico City at Palacio de Los Deportes, Festivals such as Golden Voice’s This Ain’t No Picnic (Pasadena, California) Ruido Fest (Chicago,IL) and opening for the Melvins in Los Angeles. Their latest single “No Quiero Ser Madre” was released recently this year in August, bringing back the punk and raw sound that characterizes the band. Margaritas have recorded important live sessions such as KEXP from Seattle (available on YouTube) and VansChannel666, and they are currently working on the recording of what would be their third album for the next year. In 2023 so far they have already announced a show with The Smashing Pumpkins in Mexico City at Foro Sol among other relevants bands and artists such as Deafheaven, Turnstile and Peter Hook, as well as big bands from Mexico such as The Warning and El Shirota. The festival will take place in Foro Sol which is one of the biggest forums in Mexico with almost 60,000 capacity.

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Margaritas Podridas 

No Quiero ser Madre

Margaritas Podridas

To call Current Affairs a Glasgow band may initially seem misdirection. Though Joan Sweeney (ex-Rose McDowall’s Band, Aggi Doom, The Royal We) is a lifer, Sebastian Ymai (Comidillo Tapes, Pissy, Anxiety) came from Chile via York, recently relocating to Berlin in 2021, and new member Gemma Fleet (The Wharves, Order of the Toad, Dancer) alongside Andrew Milk (Shopping, Pink Pound) were persuaded to leave London for the ‘second city’ after touring through with previous bands. However, Glasgow is the heart and hub of the band’s music, musical life and the place where Off the Tongue was solidified and produced.

Their current line up formed in 2020, but the four have been circling each other for years, touring and playing with their previous bands within the close UK network of DIY music. Stalwarts of their respective scenes they finally began working together through the creation of the Spitehouse collective – a project designed to promote Queer and female-fronted music through events mainly held at Transmission Gallery and Glasgow Autonomous Space, putting on many local and international acts (Sneaks, Sacred Paws, Still House Plants and Comfort amongst others). When an opening for a new bassist arrived, Gemma was the obvious compliment, the slogan of Spitehouse being the language of Current Affairs – “Everyone’s welcome, but don’t get it twisted.”

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Current Affairs + Bruxism

Current Affairs

Bruxism

R.A.P. Ferreira fka milo aka scallops hotel is an mc, producer and theorist working in the Black arts tradition commonly categorized as rap. Having founded the label ruby yacht in 2015 and since releasing all of his music through this channel, Ferreira has earned a sizable following within independent hip hop by rigorous, constant touring and an elevated, explorational style of performance. He is known for an uncompromised, utopic flow that speaks directly to the root of the listener.

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R.A.P. Ferreira + Eldon + Contour + Aj Suede

R.A.P. Ferreira - LEAVING HELL

R.A.P. Ferreira - Leaving Hell

Aj Suede

Contour

Eldon

R.A.P. Ferreira

Over the past ten years, **Cloud Rat** has established itself as one of the most compelling bands in the underground. Over a staggering number of releases – four full-length albums, eleven EPs and splits, a live album, and various other comps, in one decade – the Michigan band has made a name for itself via sheer emotion and musical freedom. NPR Music called Cloud Rat’s 2013 album, Moksha, “a feral, fearsome and fearless piece of work.” Noisey described a live show in 2015 with these words: “**Cloud Rat** is one of those rare bands whose music connects instantly, painfully – you feel the words, the riffs, and the all-consuming cacophony deep within the marrow of your bones, vibrating out into a hostile world.” Emerging from the space where hardcore punk spirals into grindcore, **Cloud Rat** is that and so much more. The band knows no limits and incorporates influences from across the map – black metal, noise, doom, goth, folk, and beyond – all while retaining its realness and urgency.

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Cloud Rat

Losing Weight

Cloud Rat - Losing Weight

PINCH POINTS burst forth from the Melbourne underground with their 2018 debut EP Mechanical Injury, which was one of four Australian releases included in Bandcamp's 'Best 100 releases of 2018’. Soon after they released their debut LP Moving Parts, and were hailed by Double J as “the sharpest new band in the country” and Music Victoria’s Best Breakthrough Act of 2020. The band toured with Tropical Fuck Storm, supported Amyl and the Sniffers, Kikagaku Moyo, Viagra Boys, RVG and Cash Sav age, and opened 2020's Golden Plains to a packed amphitheatre. The band released their 2022 album Process to worldwide acclaim, through Mistletone (AU/NZ), Exploding In Sound (US), and Erste Theke Tontraeger (EU), then toured throughout EU/UK, and supported IDLES on all their Australian tour dates. Process won Music Victoria’s Best Rock/Punk work, was nominated for the Australia Music Prize, and was included in NME’s best 25 Australian albums of the year.

PINCH POINTS are Acacia Coates, Adam Smith, Jordan Oakley and Isabella Orsini. Nothing is normal - but PINCH POINTS are here.

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Pinch Points

Crocodiles are a noise pop/indie pop band from San Diego, California, US. The group was formed in 2008 by core members Brandon Welchez and Charles Rowell after the break-up of their former punk bands Some Girls and The Plot to Blow Up the Eiffel Tower.

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Crocodiles

Dumbo Gets Mad is a psychedelic pop project based Italy. It has been founded at the beginning of 2011 in Los Angeles by Luca Bergomi, with the release of his debut album Elephants at the Door. The record showed a fresh approach towards a mixture of musical styles and defined the project as psychedelic pop.

The album achieved a lot of excellent reviews on the web, and the project started to create a solid fan base all over the world, thanks to its pristine sound and style. “Plumy Tale”, the first single ever released, was nominated by Joe Tangari top 50 on Pitchfork of 2011, and “Marmalade Kids” was picked as song of the day by NPR.

After touring Italy and Europe, in 2013 a new record has been released, Quantum Leap. This album is even more textured than the previous and it explores plenty of musical genres, resolving in a mind blowing psychedelic jam. Dumbo Gets Mad played alongside bands such as Neon Indian and Black Lips, and one of the single on this record, “Indian Food”, became massively popular, and forged a definitive coronation of the band sound.

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Dumbo Gets Mad

Indian Food

Dumbo Gets Mad - Makes You Fly

After initially forming as a tribute band for Japanese guitar legend Takeshi Terauchi, TEKE::TEKE learned that they had to tear up their surf - tinged covers and build something new. Since then, the Montreal - based seven - piece have expanded their already wide scope into a dazzling journey through classic Japanese balladry and Brazillian psychedelia alike. Fusing everything from traditional Japanese instrumentation to punk guitar, TEKE::TEKE have created their own musical universe--one that’s continuously expanding.

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Teke Teke

TEKE::TEKE - Kala Kala

TEKE::TEKE

Balancing Act

“Saturated dream-pop vistas” NME

“Dreamy and melodic, with a fuzzy wall of sound” Rolling Stone

“A heady balm of smeared guitar textures and sharp pop sensibilities” Stereogum

“Melbourne's Flyying Colours are back and are sounding bigger than ever” The Line of Best Fit

Shoegaze dreampop four-piece Flyying Colours are set to release their stunning third studio album ‘You Never Know’ on the 10th March via Club AC30/Poison City. The album follows the release of ‘Flyying Colours’, the band’s first two critically acclaimed and long since sold-out EP releases ‘The Flyying Colours EP’ (2013) and ‘ROYGBIV’ (2015), available together on limited edition vinyl.

Formed in Australia in 2011, Flyying Colours released their debut single ‘Wavygravy’ in 2013, honing their sound on the Melbourne live scene and have picked up high praise along the way alongside heavy rotation across worldwide radio including BBC Radio 6 Music and KEXP. The band released their critically acclaimed sophomore album ‘Fantasy Country’ in 2021 with the NME describing the release as “Saturated dream-pop vistas”.

Recorded over a two-week period in the summer of 2021 at Red Doors Sounds with producer Woody Annison, Flyying Colours intended to capture a moment in time with recurring themes and sounds which feature throughout ‘You Never Know’.

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Flyying Colours

Flyying Colours - Goodtimes

Sam Burton at Crofters Rights.

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Sam Burton

System Exclusive are Ari Blaisdell and Matt Jones – a Pasadena, California duo bearing an armful of mini synths and a pocketful of Tarantino-dusted riffs who make heart-throbbing, capital P pop punch with more than a hint of post-punk. Blaisdell’s vocals hearken back to open hearted 80’s hitmakers unafraid to quaver in the name of love, and they’re buoyed by Jones’ laser-gridded synth concoctions and heavy hand on the ones and twos. The self-titled debut via Castle Face Records has seen the band invited to perform in many new countries as well as lengthy tours across the USA, the road awaits…

System Exclusive will be embarking on an extensive 22-date UK tour throughout September 2023 including a performance at the prestigious End of the Road Festival.

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System Exclusive

System Exclusive - Inline Online

Nature TV is a soulful indie-pop band from Brighton made up of Guy Bangham, Josh 'Turk' Erişkin, Jimmy Hunt and Zal Jones. Highlights for the door-to-door heartbreak salesmen include online support from tastemaker blogs for their last 2 EP's, including DORK, DIY, Gigwise, Line of Best Fit and many more. The singles have also received Radio X, Radio One, Amazing Radio and BBC Introducing airplay as well as Apple Music, Deezer and Spotify editorial playlists including Hot New Bands, New Music Fri days', Stress Buster, Lovely Little Playlist, Lo-Fi Indie, and many more, with their single 'Hometown' currently at over an amazing 2 million streams and rising steadily.

Bringing a captivating performance with engaging onstage chat and danceable, catchy songs, their live shows have earned them festival spots at ILMC, The Great Escape and Wildpaths, invited to support PINS, Wyldest, CVC, VANT and Swimming Tapes, as well as touring the UK with Trudy & The Romance.

“Dreamily beautiful indie pop” CLASH

“A shimmering blend of soulful indie-pop and a 70s soaked rhythm section” – The Line of Best Fit

“Indie’s newest shining stars” – DIY

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Nature TV

Hometown

SKINNY PELEMBE

At Bristol Crofters Rights

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Skinny Pelembe

Skinny Pelembe - Don't Be Another

Honeyblood is the acclaimed rock-pop project centred around singer, songwriter and guitarist Stina Tweeddale.

Heavily championed by press and radio alike, Honeyblood has released three critically acclaimed albums – each Nominated for the Scottish Album of the Year (SAY) Award – and has long-time fans in BBC Radio 6 Music, BBC Radio 1, Q and The Guardian to name but a few.

With her armoury of hook-driven songs, Stina is embarking on her first solo tour of England and Wales. The songwriter will be adapting her well-known guitar driven anthems for a more intimate setting.

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Rough Trade

Honeyblood

You're Standing on My Neck

Newly California based. Spacey Slacker Pop, Galactic Om, Cosmic Sway…what ever you wanna call it, turn down your mind, relax your shoulders, and sway.

Blissed out bass lines and swooning, crooning vocals from Californian Maddy Myers paired with bodacious, groovin’ guitar from Danish Gustav Moltke. Joined by their great friend on drums, serving it up from LA, Josh Cabitac.

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Moon Panda

Slow Drive

Like a lucid Shane MacGowan fronting a frazzled house band, YOWL are a South London based 5 piece of menacing-indie storytellers, swinging from intense proto-punk to swooning balladry. The band have been supported by DIY, NME, Radio 1, 6Music, Apple Music’s Beats 1, CLASH and more as well as playing festivals and showcases across Europe including Pitchfork Avant-Garde, Amsterdam’s London Calling and All Points East.

“all brutal detail and faultless frustration” DIY

“a never-ending thrill” NME

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Yowl

Saturday Drag

YOWL - Saturday Drag

Someone is the moniker for Dutch/British composer, producer and visual artist Tessa Rose Jackson. Having released her earthy, 70’s folk-inspired debut album “Shapeshifter” in September 2021 to critical acclaim, she is gearing up to release her sophomore album “Owls” in February 2023. Never one to repeat herself, Someone has taken a fresh turn with her new tracks. They evoke a dream-like state with her silky, hypnotic vocal dipping and gliding alongside gently heavy beats and shimmering synthesisers. Intimate and soothing at times, pop-fuelled and ecstatic at others - Someone likes to take her audience on a journey.

On stage Someone and her 6 piece band are accompanied by an artistic visual display of her own making that transports the audience and the musicians into a David Lynch-esque world of shadows, secrets and - at the core - utterly human stories.

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Someone

True Love Will Find You In The End

Someone & Benjamin Longman - True Love Will Find You In the End (feat. Benjamin Longman)

Pearl & the Oysters

Juliette Pearl Davis and Joachim Polack aren’t just musical collaborators – they’re also life partners. As Pearl & the Oysters, they make songs that speak to eclectic tastes in music and pop culture; as Juju and Jojo, they’re kindred spirits. What began as a high-school friendship in Paris blossomed into a creative and personal relationship that has spanned decades and continents.

In another life, Juliette and Joachim made pop music in Paris but when the opportunity arose, the pair skipped town for the U.S. After four years immersed in the open-minded DIY scene of Gainesville, Florida, Pearl & The Oysters headed to Los Angeles, where they connected with local artists and finished up Coast 2 Coast.

Coast 2 Coast draws on this experience for its colorful cocktail of sounds: the swamps of Florida and sandy L.A. beaches under a mirrorball sun; a radio picking up a faraway broadcast before tuning into an oldies pop station; crashing waves that melt into the sound of Juliette’s white noise machine.

Guests on the album include Lætitia Sadier (Stereolab), Riley Geare (Unknown Mortal Orchestra), Alan Palomo (Neon Indian), Dent May, and Alex Brettin (Mild High Club). Coast 2 Coast documents Juliette and Joachim’s move across the U.S. and the unfamiliar feeling of being settled, having found a “sense of ‘home’ in one another.”

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