Cult singer/songwriter Brendan Benson has announced four UK appearances for the end of August 2013. Fans can catch the sometime member of The Raconteurs at the following venues: 21 August 2013 @ Dingwalls, London 22 August 2013 @ Ruby Lounge, Manchester 23 August 2013 @ The Cluny, Newcastle 24 August 2013 @ The Electric Circus, [...]
US punkers Swingin’ Utters have confirmed a lengthy run of live dates across the US and Europe for the summer. All scheduled dates can be seen below. The band’s 2013 release ‘Poorly Formed’ was well received by most of the rock press. To read Real Gone’s review of the album, click here. May 25, 2013 [...]
While the bulk of the work released by Leicester post-rockers Maybeshewill is concerned with winding atmospheres around hard edged guitar riffs, this project from Jamie Ward creates an almost entirely different mood. Over the course of eleven tracks, Dark Dark Horse’s debut release ‘Centuries’ weaves electronic ambience, pulling together the best moments from the likes [...]
Previously at Real Gone, we’ve celebrated the Eurovision phenomenon by posting our three favourite and faintly ridiculous clips and also highlighted the occasions when the UK made royal arses of themselves with, frankly, quite awful performances. In this third instalment of Real Gone’s Eurovision Gold, we take a more rounded look at what makes Eurovision [...]
In the role of carnival barker, The End Men’s mouthpiece Matthew Hendershot beckons us into his tent of musical curiosity at the beginning of the New York duo’s second release. His voice is curiously like that of Tom Waits with its gravelly tone, a comparison heightened by the sideshow setting, while the minimalist music recalls [...]
Founder member of The Merrymakers David Myhr is to play an intimate show in London later in the month. On the back of his excellent solo debut ‘Soundshine’, David will be playing at one of the Living Room Scene shows at The Betsey Trotwood, a Victorian pub situated in Clarkenwell, Central London. The gig takes [...]
In the noughties, Norwegian hard rock band Winter Parade released two albums for two different independent hard rock labels: while ‘Midnight Paradise’ [MTM Records, 2002] and ‘Two’ [Perris Records, 2008] were a huge commercial success, both found a cult audience. Following the band’s demise, bassist PB Riise teamed up with guitarist Tore Meli and Coldspell [...]
Neutral Milk Hotel are set to play a run of live dates between October and December 2013. The run of dates will see Jeff Mangum and company trekking across the US, before heading off to Australia, Taiwan and Japan. At the time of writing, there are no scheduled plans to play in the UK or [...]
Twenty years into a career of cult stardom, this four track release from Yorkshire’s My Dying Bride continues their ongoing voyage into sludge rock and doom rock territories. Clocking in at over twenty seven minutes for just four songs, some of you will own supposedly full length albums which are barely any longer (Van Halen [...]
They may have only released one full-length album in their original incarnation, but UK Decay influenced a generation of musicians, and along with Southern Death Cult and Siouxsie and the Banshees are considered by some to be the fore fathers of the goth movement. A quarter century on from their last studio recording, the core [...]
