When carving out a solo career after a lengthy tenure in a beloved band, you have a choice to make. You can either take the Liam Gallagher route, AKA carry on swaggering down the same path, just without the...
On paper, there’s a lot that sounds awfully familiar about Yard Act. Four lads from Yorkshire playing guitar music that could largely be described as ‘wiry’ with a vocalist fond of a spoken word-style monologue, the quartet seem to...
The frantic swirl of 2001’s Strokes-led New York renaissance brought many things to UK-based indie kids, including but not limited to; a proliferation of actually-quite-painful Converse, musty secondhand shop leather jackets and some pretty intense Velvet Underground related sessions...
Let's Eat Grandma – ‘Happy New Year’
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Back with a topical banger, Norwich wunderkinds Let’s Eat Grandma have kicked-started 2022 by playing Calvin Harris at his own game; big euphoric synths and nostalgic recollection of poignant memories, utilising the occasion...
In his last album ‘After Hours’, and particularly in the unforgettable single ‘Blinding Lights’, The Weeknd gave us all-out 80s nostalgia mixed with forward-thinking pop. ‘Dawn FM’, his fifth studio album, sees the Canadian artist take this a step...
If Haim’s music videos for the past few years have had an off-kilter, cinematic quality to them, it’s only fitting. When the band released the visuals for 'Man from the Magazine' in October 2020, it marked the band’s ninth...
When 2021 began, we were all hopeful. 2020 had been a shitshow and as we grimly cheersed each other via zoom on New Year’s Eve, there was a sense that surely – surely – a new calendar would bring...
Ah 2021, another rollercoaster of a year for us all. While we limboed in and out of lockdowns and other COVID restrictions, our fave musicians certainly kept us preoccupied with new music, Twitter-dominating performances and world-shaking cultural events. Here...
It’s San Francisco freak folkers Vetiver that we have to thank for the re-discovery of entrancing country crooner and mysterious session singer Kathy Heideman. It was in 2007 that the band’s frontman Andy Cabic was rummaging around in the...
How's that, kids! Another year down the pan. After the horrors of 2020, it wasn't hard for 2021 to be a step up but regardless, there was definitely plenty to celebrate. The return of live music caused the music...