Dream Wife are one of the most exciting live prospects in the UK at the moment. The former Brighton University students have been destroying venues up and down the country with their ‘Bad Bitch Club’. Whether they’re creating mental moshpits or turning London’s Scala into a prom from 80s America,…
Were The Beatles a pop band or a rock band? ‘I Want To Hold Your Hand’, that quintessential pop single would suggest the former but ‘A Day In The Life’ or ‘I Want You (She’s So Heavy)’ are different beasts altogether. The same could be debated about The Kinks…
Awsten Knight is not a man to be missed or ignored. Never mind his predilection for brightly coloured hair, he is a prolific tweeter, engaging his large international fanbase with emotional honesty in his role as lead singer, lyricist and frontman of the Texas band Waterparks. Behind the bright and…
There’s something uplifting about hearing the news The Go! Team are back in action. In a musical age where yes, there’s a lot of fantastic and innovative music to get your teeth into, not a great deal of it is much fun. Not fun in the upbeat, cultural mash-up…
Merrill Garbus and her impossibly hard to present name (often stylised as tUnE-yArDs) return for a fourth album, but this time with long-time partner Nate Brenner co-producing, heavily influencing not just via his basslines but also the shape of the songs themselves. These songs are more ‘traditional’ than ever…
Off the back of their 2015 album, Why Choose, London’s Shopping embarked upon a relentless jaunt of touring across the UK and US – it was a tour that took its toll on the band, not only directly upon each individual, but also back in their hometown where their…
They Might Be Giants haven’t really stopped since they started all those years ago. I Like Fun marks their 20th album release and they show no signs of stopping. It’s a good omen that I Like Fun was recorded in the same studio as their definitive album Flood. 2018 will…
Thomas White is a bit of a legend around these parts. Not only is he the co-founder of psych-pop band Electric Soft Parade and the guitarist in Brakes, but the scarily prolific and consistent musician is the creative honcho behind The Fiction Aisle, the multi-band project lead by White.
Debut albums don’t come much more hotly anticipated than Starcrawler’s first record. The throwback rock ‘n’ rollers, inspired by theatrical rockers such as Ozzy Osbourne and Alice Cooper as much as they’re inspired by garage punkers The Cramps and Yeah Yeah Yeahs, are here to make rock ‘n’ roll exciting…
Snapping beats which transcend into a rollercoaster of emotion, passion and ingenuity, New Yorker Porches (AKA Aaron Maine) returns with his third studio release, The House, an album which captures the fragilities of life in its very essence. Synth pop-electronica is always an incredibly hit and miss genre but,…