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Live Music Review and Photos: The Dead South at Rescue Rooms

We headed down to Rock City to watch out Del Suelo and The Hooten Hallers support The Dead South...

Live Music Review: Don Broco at Motorpoint Arena

We got down to Motorpoint Arena to catch some massive guitar rock from Don Broco...

Live Music Review and Photos: The Rumjacks and The Silk Road at Rescue Rooms

We got down to Rescue Rooms to check out The Rumjacks and Silk Road...

Live Music Review: Parkway Drive and Killswitch Engage at Motorpoint Arena Nottingham

We got down to Motorpoint Arena Nottingham to check out Parkway Drive...

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...

5 Nottingham Albums to Listen to in 2019

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

6 Books to Read in 2019

These page-turners will give you a cracking start to the year...

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…

4 Books From Notts Authors to Read This Christmas Holiday

There’s no time like Crimbo to get stuck into the printed pages of a new novel or poetry collection. The turkey’s roasting, the fire’s crackling and the wine’s mulling, giving you plenty of time to curl up in your stretchy trousers and prepare yourself for a feast of literary goodness…

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…