Fantastic hooks, massive riffs, a great look and a massive tune in What A Shame, Lorraine. We’re meant to not take sides, be all impartial, and just introduce the music…but, we flippin’ love You Animals! Great video too from Mark Duggan. All in all…what’s not to love?

I’ve been waiting decades for someone to form a great guitar band that combines good story telling with analogue arcade synth sounds. I would have done it myself, but I don’t have any musical talent. So thank god the Jukebox Collective came along with Lost and Found.

Hey music lovers, Radio Caroline DJs will be whipping up a primal hoot of sound this weekend in Shrewsbury for Caroline True Records, Shrewsbury’s very own label of love. From early Hacienda, to Madchester, and all the rain-soaked greatness in between, if it’s Manchester…it’s in. Good times!

We picked up Hannah’s Music Box EP – 80s electro classics played on a tiny wind up music box – when we were poking around the Rough Trade shop, and that was it…we were hooked! But Hannah Peel also writes classic songs that bypass fashion and trends and go straight to the heart. Which we always try to remember, is what music is all about. This performance of Solitude at Cross Street Chapel in Manchester had us a bit week at the knees. That’ll explain our shaky camera shots then. LP The Broken Wave is also quality from start to finish.

In a sea of eighties revivalists, Fools Wish sounds perfectly natural and bang up to date. The Kill Van Kulls have taken all the best bits of the 80s like classic synths and big drums and woven them into a totally contemporary wall of sound. In describing the Kill Van Kulls music, I’m sure that ‘dark and brooding’ will become overused in the years to come…so I’m getting in early and using it now. Fools Wish totally transports you to the dark side of love. Quite brilliant.