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Nusic Podcast #197: The People's New Music Podcast

Our annual People’s New Music Podcast, where you make your predictions of which local artists will realise their musical dreams in the coming year.

The Podcast may contain some fruity language. Sensitive ears – you have been warned.

Live Music Review: TOY at Rough Trade Nottingham

We love a Rough Trade live + signing gig, so we got down there for TOY...

Live Music Review: Beat The Streets 2019

Is there any better cure for the January blues than a day festival? We sent our Becky and Louise down to Beat the Street this Sunday to find out...

Live Music: The Hallé

A genuine delight to watch

Nottingham Bands and Artists - Send Us Music!

Want your music reviewed in LeftLion? Read on...

Paranoid Picnic at NAE

Paranoid Picnic: The Phantom BAME is a solo exhibition from Hardeep Pandhal taking place at the New Art Exchange from the 19th of January to the 17th of March. This is an exhibition of two halves, with one half in the NAE and the other taking place in Primary. We got trusty Caroline down to check it out...

5 Nottingham Albums to Listen to in 2019

All the good stuff for your tabs from some cracking Notts musicians...

Live Music Review: Broken Witt Rebels at Rescue Rooms

We went to Rescue Rooms to check out Broken Witt Rebels and Reef at Rescue Rooms...

Manu Delago's Parasol Peak: A Music and Film Project Recorded in the Alps

What happens when a group of musicians lug their instruments up a mountain in the Alps to record an album? This month, multi-instrumentalist and composer Manu Delago brings his fascinating new project, Parasol Peak, to Metronome. Fusing music and film, the result is raw and mesmerising. We caught up with Manu ahead of the screening and live performance…

5 Albums to Listen to This Christmas Holiday

All the good stuff for your tabs from some cracking Notts musicians...

Live Music Review: Dom Pipkin’s Smokin’ Boogie at Peggy’s Skylight

If you like blues piano then you will almost certainly have liked Dom Pipkin's Smokin' Boogie piano show at new Nottingham Jazz Bar Peggy's Skylight on Sunday 16 December…

Live Music Review: John Wilson Orchestra - At The Movies

Classic Hollywood scores from a superstar orchestra

Preview: Fade II Black Film and Music Lounge

Live Music Review: The Burning Hell at The Maze

We got down to The Maze to check out The Burning Hell…

Live Music Review: Henge at The Bodega

Flashing lights, the ground vibrating beneath your feet and cosmic mutated frequencies. That’s what the night had in store for the humans of Nottingham as alien rock-rave band took over The Bodega…

Otis Williams of The Temptations Talks New Music, Touring the UK and Listening to Beyoncé

Formed in 1961 and named by Billboard as the most successful r'n'b act of all time, The Temptations have produced a hit in nearly every decade since their inception with ubiquitous singles like My Girl and Papa Was a Rollin’ Stone. We grabbed Otis Williams for a word on the blower...

Live Music Review: Pitchshifter at Rock City

Celebrating twenty years since the release of their seminal album www.pitchshifter.com, the almighty Pitchshifter reunited to play their first shows in over a decade. The six-date tour saw the band supported by an all-Notts lineup, with post-hardcore band The Blueprint and alt-metallers Earthtone9 warming the crowd up nicely, all culminating with an intimate show in the Mecca that is Rock City...

Live Music Review: Reckless Yes present Chorusgirl, Mammoth Penguins and Fightmilk at Rough Trade

If you haven’t heard of Reckless Yes before, listen up: they’re a Derbyshire-based record label and promoter, with a habit of unearthing and supporting top-notch bands. So when we got wind of their triple bill takeover at Rough Trade, we couldn’t resist heading down.

Live Music Review: The Decemberists at Rock City

Bearded men, giant inflatable whales and accordion solos are just some of the highlights from US Indie-rockers The Decemberists gig at Rock City. As it's been over a decade since they last performed in Notts, we thought we'd pop over to see how they fared...

Live Music Review: Anchorsong at Metronome

We just can’t stay away from Metronome at the moment. The expansive stage, killer lighting and smell of fresh paint have got us hooked, so we headed down for another eclectic evening of tunes. This time, from ordinarily-solo MPC monster, Anchorsong…

Live Music Review: I Am Lono at Rough Trade Nottingham

We got down to Rough Trade Nottingham to check out the audible wares of local favourite I Am Lono...

Live Music Review: Acid Mothers Temple and Shiftwork at Metronome

Our Mike and Becky got down to Metronome to check out Acid Mothers Temple and Shiftwork...

5 Albums to Listen to This November

All the good stuff for your tabs from some cracking Notts musicians...

Music Video: I AM LONO - Lovers

Check out the brilliant new music video for Nottingham four-piece I AM LONO from Lace Market Media Group. Directed by Matt Daunt, produced by Mark Daunt and with a crew that included David Lilley and Alex Withers, the video for their new track Lovers is a belter...

Live Music Review: Nactus Kunan at The Bodega

Nactus Kunan have been making waves in the local scene, and on Friday night they launched their latest single, Grievous Bodily Calm with their biggest show yet. The gang were joined at The Bodega by fellow Notts bands Megatrain and Shiftwork, treating the audience to a melting pot of a gig by covering a broad range of styles and sounds...