I run Resident with my wife Natasha. I look after most of the buying for the shop, filtering the literally thousands of releases that record companies put out every month to hopefully choose the 100 or so new titles a week that our customers are most interested in. Apart from…
BSP initially drew much attention to themselves with their so-called Club Sea Power events in the early noughties, here in Brighton, that included curiosities like a retro fashion show and hosting a performance by the first family of folk, the Sussex based Copper family. It was 'art', without much…
Hidden Brighton #2 Price £6 We all know what a diverse bunch of musicians reside in this city, a growing trend that has been encouraged by the plethora of music colleges…
I can’t remember an album that has split critics’ opinions in recent times as much as In Colour has. Some say it will be as relevant as a Massive Attack album is now in 20 years’ time, others have labelled it as a “what could have been” album.
It’s been 16 years since 1999’s Rhythm and Stealth and a hell of a lot has changed in British dance culture since. Garage died a death only for its ghost to be resurrected by Burial, dubstep momentarily ruled the world and the deep house peddled out by acts like…
The last few years the UK indie scene has seen a creative explosion of progressive pop meets math rock bands: Foals, Bombay Bicycle Club, alt-j, Django Django et al. Everything Everything, are another in this magnificent lineage of distinctly British music, where the tried and tested formulas of…
Just six songs make up The Bell That Never Rang, Lau's fourth album. Commissioned by Celtic Connections and made with the support of the PRS for Music Foundation, the three piece enlisted the help of Joan Wasser (aka Joan As Policewoman) on production duties, and it's another leap forward…
Once upon a time, Ellie Rowsell and Joff Oddie met while doing the open mic circuit in London, become a duo, and performed their acoustic folk-pop based songs. Deciding that hardly anyone was listening they wanted to get a band together, and after a false start or two settled…
Mark Kozelek is not afraid of a bit of work. Since the turn of the decade, he’s released four albums under the moniker of Sun Kil Moon and an EP, four solo (or collaborations) albums and seven live albums. And, On Tour: A Documentary was released in 2012, which…
Theo Verney is a name our ears have all started pricking up for in the BrightonsFinest office lately. His new Brain Disease EP is hotly anticipated as the sound of this home-studio whizz perfecting the style he debuted on the Heavy Sunn EP back in October 2013. The thing that…