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From The Archive: Dale Winton (1955 - 2018)

"You learn all aspects of the industry - it taught me how to write, how to prepare. I wouldn’t be doing what I’m doing now had it...

Isaac Gracie at Rescue Rooms Nottingham in Photos

19 April 18

Nottingham Record Stores are Celebrating Record Store Day 2018

19 April 18

Forever Records, Rough Trade and Plates Records are all taking part this year...

George Akins Talks DHP Success

16 April 18

Rock City. Rescue Rooms. The Bodega. Stealth. Four of the city’s best-loved venues, all part of the DHP Family. It’s been a big year for this bunch, what with Rescue Rooms turning fifteen and the launch of the mammoth Beat The Streets festival. We had a word with George Akins, DHP’s main man, to find out more...

Live Music Review: Halle Classic Movie Thrillers

16 April 18

  A real joy to experience live...

Nusic Future Session: Tee Peters

17 April 18

The latest up and coming Nottingham musician to tickle the microphone and titillate the cameras at Nusic...

Live Music Review: Rob Green and Eric Bibb at Rescue Rooms Nottingham

16 April 18

Jason From Sleaford Mods on Sex, Drugs and Rock and Roll

14 April 18

Back in the day, we used to lament the lack of Notts music acts breaking outside of the NG postcode, then a load of ‘em came through at once. But perhaps the most surprising was Sleaford Mods. Two blokes from Notts in their mid-forties who’d been playing open mic nights suddenly tapped into an international zeitgeist and completely smashed it. Frontman Jason Williamson tells us how...

A Look Back at The LeftLion Gigs

14 April 18

As well as running a magazine, we’ve put on hundreds of gigs and events across town. Some readers will be too young to remember ‘em, but many of you will have played and partied at our nights. This one’s for the old-school...

VVV: Leading the Hip Hop Revolution

12 April 18

VVV are Nottingham’s most exciting new hip hop export. Having said that, music aficionados could contest that they aren’t really new, as the underground supergroup is made up of three names who’ve been on the Notts scene for years. The trio have proven themselves to be a unique contribution to the UK’s rap scene, delivering skilled bars and cultural nostalgia without taking themselves too seriously. Cappo, a UK rap veteran whose career spans over two decades, is joined by Juga-Naut, the culinary and musical polymath, and Vandal Savage, the lyrically adept nephew of Nottingham hip hop legend, Joe Buhdha...

Nusic Podcast #176 with Arc Nade, Jorday, Haggard Cat, Re Teu and more...

13 April 18

Live Music Review: Acoustickle's 9th Birthday at The Maze

13 April 18

Our Angel chats to promoter Parisa East as they celebrate Acoustickle's 9th birthday in style with great music, delicious food and plenty of fairy lights...

Live Music Review: Cabbage at Rough Trade

13 April 18

On Easter Sunday most people are hunting for eggs. We went hunting for Cabbage instead

Nottingham Buskers: Sam "The Blues Man" Lindo

10 April 18

Sam Lindo aka Blues Man has been strumming his strings on Nottingham streets for yonks. As one of the first acts to appear at a LeftLion gig, we met him for a chat about his life and music, and to tip our hat…

Live Music Review: Fuzzbox at The Bodega

09 April 18

I’m Not From London’s Fuzzbox, a night of dirty garage rock and psych, steps up a notch for its Easter egg-travaganza, moving on up to The Bodega. We went along for a listen.

Nottingham Buskers: ReggaeNotts

08 April 18

You might have clocked Lloyd Dread on the streets of Nottingham singing his heart out with his mates. We sat down with him in the good owd GB Cafe in Sneinton to find out more about the ReggaeNotts movement, spirituality in music, and some of the recent changes to the rules around getting musical outside...

Nottingham's Buskers: Mogs Morgan

06 April 18

Long-time Notts busker and badman saxophonist, Mogs Morgan is a staple to the city’s landscape. You might find him knocking about near Xylophone Man’s old spot, among other places, having a toot. We gave him a bell...

Nusic Future Session: Kollider

03 April 18

One of Nottingham's finest up-and-comers did a music with the organisation championing the newbies...

What's on the LeftLion Stereo? Bru-C, Lone, New Apostles and more...

30 March 18

Plug your headphones in and tune out for a hot sec...

Steve Underwood: Bus Driver Turned Sleaford Mods Manager

28 March 18

Steve Underwood is the now former Nottingham City Transport bus driver who runs Harbinger Sound, a record label at the forefront of UK’s underground and DIY scene, putting out a diverse and sometimes challenging selection of artists that have span punk, noise, experimental and avant-garde. It was a chance meeting with Jason Williamson that would see the label have a top twenty album with Sleaford Mods and Steve becoming the band’s manager...

Nusic Podcast #175 with The Memoirs, Cameron Sinclair Harris, Josh Weatley, Distant Blue and more...

28 March 18

As She Pleases: Interview with Madison Beer

26 March 18

The rising American pop singer answers some of our questions ahead of an intimate performance at The Bodega...

9 Notts Albums To Add To Your Playlist

23 March 18

Fill your tabs with some proper Notts glory...

Anton Lockwood: The Man Who Made Rescue Rooms A Success

22 March 18

As Rescue Rooms basks in the glory of its fifteenth birthday, we sat down with the man who transformed the place from a run down sports bar to a renowned music venue...

Jake Haseldine Takes Wicked Photos of Musicians

22 March 18

Young Nottingham Music Photographer Jake Haseldine captures an epic moment in every photograph…
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