Playlist: Happy Birthday Antipop Records
Like your music fast and dirty? As Antipop celebrates 5 years of fist-pumping gigs and DIY releases, we ask them to make a special birthday playlist… Hi Antipop! How and why did you...
Playlist: Dan Le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip
“The world don’t revolve around you, but it should”: Chris Carr’s musical heroes are on tour and it’s the perfect excuse for a playlist… Dan le Sac vs. Scroobius Pip have moulded a...
Playlist: Cathedral Soundwalk
Plug in your earphones and let Anthony Ellis takes you on a special ‘sound walk’ along Hope Street… Being from Manchester, I’ve always said that Liverpool has three things, amongst others, that Cottonopolis...
Playlist: Sounds of Science Fiction
Ahead of FACT’s new science fiction inspired exhibition, C James Fagan listens to the skies… Science fiction and music have had quite a flirty relationship over the years. Musicians draw inspiration from the...
Playlist: 10 Best Spring Gigs
Toby Hood compiles a mixtape of his favourite tracks from the best of this Spring’s touring indie musicians… With recent high winds and flooding, it might be hard to see the dawn of...
Playlist: Bobby Womack, Soul Man
Ahead of his live performance at Liverpool Philharmonic this Sunday, we look at soul legend Bobby Womack’s greatest hits… Bobby Womack is, by any account, an industry legend. With collaborators including Aretha Franklin,...
Playlist: Songs To Play At The End Of The World
After 12 years of quality programming, All Tomorrow’s Parties Festival (as we knew it) is no more, and it feels like The End Of The World… This weekend is the last ever UK...
Playlist: The (un-ironic) Joy of Easy Listening
When somebody mentions Easy Listening, what is your reaction? If it’s to cringe, consider yourself off our Christmas list… For some time now, the only way to properly appreciate the genre we term...
Playlist: Liverpool International Festival Of Psychedelia
The second Liverpool Psych Fest is almost upon us. We’ve got the playlist to get you in the mood… As DJ Bernie Connor noted in his piece in the Guardian Guide last Saturday,...