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Backyards: If You’re Scared EP

Every so often you hear something that immediately jumps out at you. This is certainly the case with If You’re Scared, the debut EP from Backyards

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Silver Story: Wake Up EP

First things first, I’m not a 16 year old girl who hangs around city centres wearing ‘A Day To Remember’ t-shirts and talks about how fit Jared Leto looked on this week’s cover…

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Adrian Carter (featuring Jane Silence): One Summer Evening

Longing for warm summer nights instead of cold wintery darkness or may be something to take the February chill out of your bones? I’d suggest checking out the latest single from Sheffield tinkerer…

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Glass City Vice: Limelight EP

It is unlikely that you will have heard of this band, unless you saw them in Leeds a few weeks ago. However, their new EP Limelight will catch your attention. Combining influences from…

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Standard Fare: Out of Sight, Out of Town

The follow up to 2010’s A Noyelle Beat sees Standard Fare taking things up a notch: a little bit more bouncy, a hint of angst and a lot of good sounds are

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Low Duo: The EP of Truth and Regret

Having been proclaimed as one of the most intriguing and unique bands in Sheffield today, Low Duo (brothers Adam and Leigh Greenwood) kick off 2012 with their most enthralling release to date, ‘The…

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Pulled Apart By Horses: Tough Love

Pulled Apart by Horses are a band that are renowned for their live performances, their shows consisting of much sweat-inducing mayhem and carnage, not to mention their seemingly endless ability to injure themselves

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Robert George Saull: Richard Furlong

With the Purgatory Players sadly on hiatus, Robert George Saull has used the time wisely, to release his first solo EP. Richard Furlong is a delicate blend of English traditional music and American alternative…

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Kath Auto: Soundcloud

Rising like phoenixes from the ashes of Loman, Jason Quinsey, Ben Walker and Julian Crockford are back on the Sheffield music scene with a new name and lyrics just a shade or two…

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Elephant: Spinning Heads

I’ve heard quite a lot of nice things being said about Elephant, so when they released their second EP, Spinning Heads, I thought I’d give it a whirl.  The five-piece hail from Sheffield

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Nat Johnson & The Figureheads: I’m Across, I’m Ashore

Monkey Swallows the Universe were a wonderful band who never quite found the success their music deserved. They sadly got lost in the whole “Sheffield Scene” that kicked off during the middle of…

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Air Cav – Don’t Look Indoors

Air Cav are a Manchester four-piece who first flirted with the mainstream in 2008, when singles ‘Alliance’ and ‘Embers/Picking at The Bones’ were played on radio shows around the country. Since then, at…

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