About Mari Lane
Editor, London.
Likes: Kathleen Hanna, 6Music, live music in the sunshine.
Dislikes: Sexism, pineapples, the misuse of apostrophes.
As well as an acute sense of style and growing fame for their fashionable attire (Matthew featured in Burberry’s Autumn Winter campaign), it would seem that The Heartbreaks are pretty great musicians too. New single, ‘Hey, Hey Lover’ is filled…
On Saturday night the Temple bar in Birmingham’s Institute played host to Broken Witt Rebels’ EP launch party. The intimate room was jam-packed with both loyal members of the “rebel army” and newly acquired fans. The Brummie blues-rock band treated…
“You’re not from New York City, you’re from Rotherham,” might be how the majority of musicians would react to a rap artist hailing from the South Yorkshire town, but Jay Mya is one who’s clearly putting the work in. In…
While we’re yet to see snow this winter, Reichenbach Falls’ Reports of it set the scene in a stunning fashion. Just as (fairly) recent efforts by Andy Burrows and Kate Bush have paid homage to the white stuff – creating…
Villains are an upcoming rock band from Essex. Bella managed to catch a quick chat with Matt from the band, before they supported Blitz Kids at Camden’s Barfly. They released their new single ‘The Fall’ on Friday 17th January and…
Infatuation: an intense but short-lived passion or admiration for someone or something. However, once in a blue moon, the heavy zeal you feel towards a band really pulls on your heart strings and, soon enough, you’ll find yourself wondering how…
With a rather deceptive name, Girl Band, are four guys from Dublin who deliver a delightfully chaotic cacophony of sound. Latest single, ‘Lawman’, provides us with a rare fusion of post-punk meets death-disco; an excitable, high-hat heavy blast of youthful…
Delivering a refreshing take on traditional blues with evident passion and skill, trio Howlin’ Circus are a pretty exciting addition to the thriving North London music scene. Having bonded over a love of all things rock n roll, the band…
Cousins, Reece Donahue and Christopher Prudhomme (aka Painted Palms) have always been set on creating music together, regardless of how far away they have been from one another. Their debut album – ‘Forever’ – although recorded whilst Donahue and Prudhomme…
Andover lads, KURBd, ooze originality, vigorous energy and a raw, stripped back sound that has me hankering for the charmingly dingy, smoke-filled music venues of my youth. Their three-track EP, ‘The Cause… The Defect’, was recorded for just £180 and…