Cassette Store Day is back this autumn on October 14th with a day of global celebrations and all in honour of the humble cassette tape. The final list of UK releases is as follows: • Fear of Tigers – Tapeworkxs (Playmaker Media) • Various Artists – The Music Will Save Us Vol.1 (Sad Club Records) • Colleen – Colleen Et […]
Cassette Store Day is back this autumn on Saturday 14th October 2017 with a day of global celebrations, and all in honour of the humble cassette tape. The first list of UK releases is as follows: • Strange Collective – Surf Odyssey (Salvation) • Trojan Horse – Fukushima Surfer Boys (This City Is Ours) • AlgernonCornelius – Radio (This City Is Ours) […]
The Hangman by Psycho Comedy Liverpool-based five-piece Psycho Comedy who have recently released ‘The Hangman / Michigan State’ on Deltasonic are set to complement its digital release, with a limited edition, white cassette, limited to just 40 copies, released in collaboration with Blak Hand Records. ‘The Hangman’ grows from a rattling guitar and bass two-hander, handclaps […]
Blak Hand Records celebrate the release of their 24th cassette with Katie Pham and The Moonbathers and their brand spankin’ new 4 track ‘Voyager EP’. Limited to 30 hand numbered bubblegum pink cassettes, the tape is available from the Blak Hand Records Bandcamp store, and the Indie Label Market in London’s Old Spitalfields on Saturday […]
‘A Lagoon’ is the second single from Caesar this year, following February’s digital release of the soothing ‘Crossed Wires’. The two tracks merely serve as a welcoming preview of what’s to come on the band’s very first headline UK tour which is ongoing now. Check out the remaining dates below. ‘A Lagoon’ is out now […]
Blak Hand Records welcome their fifth release of 2017 with a psychedelic offering from Liverpool band The Electric Lazarus, who release their second single ‘Death Valley Sunday’ alongside an all-new recorded b-side version of the previously released ‘Sometimes I Wonder’. Recorded with producer/engineer Jon Withnall, the songs take their influence from singer Andy Pringle’s favourite […]
Blak Hand Records release their third cassette of the year with Psych/Rock Stoke boys: Psyence, and their fresh new 5 track ‘A New Dawn EP’. Only available on cassette, it’s limited to 40 hand numbered Black on Black tapes available from the Blak Hand Records Bandcamp store – purchase here. Stoke-on-Trent based PSYENCE formed in 2013 […]
Liverpool psych-pop band The Cheap Thrills explode back onto the scene after a creative journey in the cult-favourite Parr Street Studios brought them an EP that is well worth a listen. ‘Glare’ excels in confidence, giving a band who has been lurking in the shadows of the ever mind-bending scouse music scene for the last […]
Manchester four piece Calvadore are doing something a little different – something that caught our eyes over here at Silent Radio. A gig swap with The Hungry Ghosts from Birmingham, Calvadore and their brummy mates will duke it out and take turns headlining in their hometowns. That bring Calvadore’s first headline show at the Aatma venue in […]
Blak Hand Records have announced their final cassette of the year with North London band PURS and their first single Girl In Love. The track is limited to 30 transparent purple tapes exclusively at the Independent Record Label Market on November 26th at Old Spitalfields Markets. We were first introduced to PURS with their cover of […]
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