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MYKKI BLANCO // Zerox, Newcastle
06.11.26
ON SALE 3RD JULY 10AM

“If there is one thing I know how to do, it’s how to get the most out of life. Yeah, sure, not everything is perfect. You f**k up. You make mistakes. But hopefully, you’re achieving more than you’re f**king up. Overall, I would say I do well, milking life for all it’s got.” — Mykki Blanco

If Blanco’s discography exists less as a linear evolution and more as a series of deliberate mutations - each project shifting in terms of tone, genre, and even the function of the voice - then Café Paradiso represents his post-rumspringa clarity. “I love creating music but I’ve never liked the idea of being a one-trick pony,” Blanco explains, “I need to check some things off my ‘Life List.’”

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THE VASELINES // The Cluny
05.03.27
On sale Friday 26th June 10am

Happy 40th Anniversary to The Vaselines!

The Vaselines were formed in Glasgow in 1987 by singers/guitarists Eugene Kelly and Frances McKee, soon signing to The Pastels frontman Stephen Pastel's 53rd & 3rd label.

They released two 12 inch singles 'Son of a Gun' and 'Dying For it' and one album 'Dum Dum'. Nirvana's Kurt Cobain regularly cited the Vaselines in interviews with the music press and Nirvana would go on to cover the Vaselines' ‘Molly's Lips’
and ‘Son of a Gun’ (both later compiled on their Incesticide collection) as well as perform ‘Jesus Doesn't Want Me for a Sunbeam’ on their legendary MTV Unplugged appearance which went on to introduce the band to a new world wide audience.

Though they were not widely known outside the United Kingdom during their short career, their association with Nirvana brought them exposure, with Kurt Cobain describing Kelly and McKee as his "favourite songwriters in the whole world". At the 1991 Reading Festival Eugene joined Nirvana onstage for performance on The Vaselines song 'Molly's Lip's' and in 1992 Sub Pop Records, released 'The Way of the Vaselines: A Complete History', a compilation that contained The Vaselines entire body of work at the time.

Although The Vaselines broke up in 1989 both Eugene and Frances continued to write, record and tour. Eugene went on to form Captain America who changed their name to Eugenius when threatened with a lawsuit by Marvel Comics releasing two albums, 'Oomalama' on Fire Record and 'Mary Queen of Scots' on Atlantic Records. Frances resurfaced in The Painkillers then with new band Suckle released the album 'Against Nurture' on Chemical Underground. She released a solo album 'Sunny Moon' in 2006.

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26.08.26
ON SALE NOW!

The Portland band Møtrik is known for laser lights and fog machines and a driving 4/4 beat. The five piece band pumps out playful, danceable krautrock.

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