Our recent recommendations for Exchange
Sell out warning! Matinee mastery at Exchange ft legends of the UK DIY scene! Brummie indie-punk powerhouses Johnny Foreigner unite with Manchester’s premier sadcore merchants Crywank for a double-header of raw anti-folk storytelling and anthemic emo catharsis. Dream combo FFO: AJJ, Modern Baseball, Los Campesinos!, Toodles & The Hectic Pity.
Johnny Foreigner / Crywank co-headline at Exchange.
Sell out warning! Stormy alt-folk, hewn straight from the earth. Sean Rowe’s bluesy soul-steeped ballads are utterly captivating, his deep, moody baritone and narrative chops effortlessly conjuring the spirit of Cohen & Waits. An emotional reckoning FFO: Iron & Wine, Gregory Alan Isakov, Nick Cave.
Sean Rowe at Exchange.
Sell out warning! Don’t mistake them for a one-hit wonder: cult Britpoppers The Boo Radleys charmed us with their wall-of-jangle melodic brilliance in the 90s, and the indie/neo-psych anthems just keep coming. If you were around for Wake Up Boo, dust off your bucket hat now…
The Boo Radleys at Exchange.
Cult Swedish powerpop-punks celebrating 20 years in the game! The Baboon Show’s high-energy, hook-laden anthems fuse the political charge of 70s punk rock with the glam swagger of hair metal - old school anarchy perfected. Big FFO: The Hives, Joan Jett, The Distillers, The Exploding Hearts.
The Baboon Show at Exchange.
Sell out warning! Unsettling, experimental rap for fans of Danny Brown, Ghostmane and Odd Future. Gasmask donning Gao is setting fire to small minded hiphop circles with lyrical murder, melancholy and half-imagined extraterrestrial police-states
Gao the Arsonist at Exchange.