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Primal Scream set to shake up Coventry this December

Monumental Scottish band Primal Scream are scheduled to bring their experimental alternative rock to The Empire on December 1st Scottish

Bat For Lashes to play Town Hall show this month in support of new album, Lost Girls. Indie pop multi-instrumentalist

Ivory Wave distil three years of promise into 25 minutes of disco-tinged joy on their debut EP. Sam Lambeth reviews.

London five piece Spector return to Birmingham with their all familiar style and energy for a intimate gig at The Castle and Falcon

In his ambitious, 39-years later sequel to The Shining, Mike Flanagan manages to create a messy but enjoyable film.

Injury Reserve played an explosive set at Birmingham’s Mama Roux’s as part of their debut album UK tour

Beabadoobee will be performing in Birmingham in December along with fellow Dirty Hit acts Oscar Lang and No Rome, as part of her UK tour

A new report finds that a post-Brexit drop in music tourism to the UK could cost the region’s economy tens of millions of pounds

Coventry is home to a wealth of underappreciated indies. Use this guide to help you support the 2021 City of Culture’s independent businesses!

D.C. post-punks Priests played the Hare & Hounds for This Is Tmrw with support from garage punk trio The Cosmics.