This evening Leeds University Union will host the celebrated hip-hop, dub and big beat band Dub Pistols at their smaller ‘underground’ venue ‘Mine’. After winning DJ magazine’s prestigious ‘Best Live Act of 2011’ award, Dub […]
Music | Live in Leeds – MONEY
Money – Belgrave Music Hall (5/5) In Manchester’s unforgiving industrial landscape, MONEY are the latest musical outfit to emerge from its crevices. Fronted by Jamie Lee – a clown-like and enchanting creature – they deliver […]
Clubs | Feature – Leeds nominees for DJ Mag best of British
Photo: DJ Mag Leeds has yet again firmly established as an illustrious hub for dance music in the UK, with three nominations from DJ Mag’s yearly ‘Best of British’ dance music awards going to Leeds based […]
Music | Live in Leeds – Summer Camp, Editors & Gold Panda
Summer Camp – Belgrave Music Hall (3/5) Summer Camp is a married couple from London who compose mellow lo-fi indie-pop with a hint of retro bits from the 1980s attached to it. They seem to […]
Music | Live in Leeds – The Family Rain, Palma Violets & Hayseed Dixie
The Family Rain – Brudenell Social Club (4/5) If you watched Made In Chelsea on Monday (yes, I do), then you have already listened to The Family Rain. It featured the band’s cover of ‘Enjoy The Silence.’ […]
Music | Preview – Roy Ayers
Roy Ayers – Stylus on 05/12/2013 Roy Ayers is a name which should need no introduction. As one of the pioneers of jazz-funk, whilst also being hugely influential in everything from hip-hop to house to […]
Clubs | Preview – Mono_cult presents Nina Kraviz, Boddika, Bicep
Photo: Go A Club This Saturday, Canal Mills will play host to Siberian DJ/ producer Nina Kraviz, an artist who perhaps needs no introduction. In the past few years her remixes, solo productions, collaborations and […]
Music | LS Introducing Dev Hynes – Blood Orange
On announcing his new album and his second as Blood Orange, Dev Hynes explained that “a lot of the record is about transitions, life transitions.” Any followers of Hynes will know that he is one […]
Music | Live in Leeds – Vampire Weekend & Savages
Vampire Weekend – First Direct Arena (4/5) As the current music scene leaves us aching for new bands to present an original and unpretentious sound, it is a relief to hear Vampire Weekend moving from […]
Music | Interview – Mallory Knox
Once upon a time Mallory Knox were just another band scuttling along the underbelly of the UK rock scene, touring relentlessly in an attempt to break through. Now the Cambridgeshire lot are riding the wave […]
Clubs | Review – Just A Little presents Daniele Baldelli
Photo: For Festival Just A Little have rightly earned a reputation for putting on different and exciting parties all over Leeds. Wire Magazine have said “it would not be a stretch to call him the […]
Clubs | Review – Set One Twenty presents Kyle Hall
Photo: Dave Piekoz In the shadow of Mint Warehouse’s more advertised and expensive ‘Cocoon’ night, Mint Club hosting Kyle Hall was a night not to be missed. This distraction did have its’ advantages: on entering […]