Still Listening Magazine

1 week ago | stilllisteningmagazine.com | Kayla Sandiford

Brighton avant-folk quartet The New Eves have shared their new single ‘Highway Man’. The track also arrives with a run of UK festival dates, and news of the band signing with Transgressive Records. ‘Highway Man’ is a retelling of Alfred Noyes’ 1906 romantic ballad from a female lens. Speaking about the song, cellist, guitarist and vocalist Nina Winder-Lind shares: “In the original version it’s this dude, who’s being the dude, and the girl doesn’t do anything and then dies.

2 weeks ago | stilllisteningmagazine.com | Kayla Sandiford

Mac DeMarco has announced a UK, European and North American Tour. The tour will kick off in August, with a run of shows in the US and Europe before DeMarco touches down in Birmingham for the first night of the UK leg at O2 Academy on Saturday 8th November. It will include performances at London’s Eventim Apollo, Brighton Dome and Manchester’s Aviva Studios.

4 weeks ago | stilllisteningmagazine.com | Rachael Pimblett

For the very first time, Jonathan Demme’s Silence of the Lambs was showed with a live orchestra to bring to life the undeniably movimg, murky and unsettling score written by the great Howard Shore. In the audience sat the man himself, cosied over his walking stick, waving at an enraptured Barbican audience who sat back into the twists and turns of the psycho-thriller as if it was the very first time of viewing.

1 month ago | stilllisteningmagazine.com | Chiara Strazzulla

Having reached that grow-or-stagnate point of their musical career, bdrmm have decided to grow. Not that there wasn’t a clearly readable upwards trajectory in the previous works the Hull-based indie-rockers have produced, but even from the first couple tracks their new  full-length effort, Microtonic, can’t help but feel like a full-blown upgrade.

2 months ago | stilllisteningmagazine.com | Alex Curle

It can be said that the five-piece group of Squid have come a long way since their instrumental jazz days in Brighton playing and paying off their cheap rent way back in 2016. Since then, their broody, angular tropes of British colloquialisms within their Fourth World art-rock arrangements have dazzled and delighted audiences worldwide. Their breakthrough debut Bright Green Field in 2021 arrived off the coattails of post-pandemic with an experimental jazzy avant-garde affair.