Rating: What a difference a few months away and a trip to American makes. Last time Temples toured the UK the four members were enough to recreate their trippy, ‘60s-drenched debut Sun Structures (Rough Trade’s Album Of The Year) in…
Rating: Following their huge homecoming show in Leicester and a knockout Glastonbury performance over the Summer, as well as a string of arena dates over the last few weeks with more to follow, Kasabian opted for something a little more…
Rating: Having found fame/gone viral via frontman Samuel T. Herring’s dance moves during an appearance on Jimmy Kimmel Live in May (refreshed on this side of the pond with Jools Holland in September), Future Islands sold out the 2000 tickets…
Rating: For those Glastonbury-goers who, like me, attended via Twitter and the BBC’s Red Button rather than in actual storm-soaked person, Jungle were an act who seemed to attract a huge chunk of the attention (only overshadowed by Dolly Parton’s…
Rating: Just like Farrokh Bulsara and Paul Hewson before her, it’s hard to imagine who Stefani Germanotta would have been today had her alter ego remained a voice inside her head and not the more prominent aspect of her being. Tonight,…
To the untrained ear a-ha’s Analogue does not sound like an a-ha album. In fact, there’s more in common with previous poster pin-ups The Beatles than the trio of Norwegians gracing the cover of their 1986 debut, Hunting High And…
Rating: It was almost like a scene from some ironic, Catatonia ‘Karaoke Queen’-esque music video when La Roux took to the stage at Hoxton’s Macbeth this week. The Macbeth is, after all, just a pub – but what a pub, and…
Rating: By name and by nature, Bestival has become one of the UK’s most loved festivals, and closed 2014’s season in its now renowned style, where castaways and natives joined forces to create the ultimate desert island disco. With huge…
Rating: The Kooks’ frontman Luke Pritchard is presenting their fourth album as “Chapter 2” of the band’s story, and there’s certainly something different about the former indie-pop janglers as they release Listen (out this week), which was preceded by an intimate but…
Following on from last year’s tenth birthday celebrations, Bestival returns next week for another weekend of the biggest bands, the best DJs sets and the most bizarre things you’ll ever see at a festival. Rob and Josie Da Bank better…