Following their energetic and spirited performance at Calling Festival on Clapham Common, Matt Tarr and Rachael Tarr caught up with Isaiah Radkey, bassist and backing vocalist of the Missouri punk three piece, Radkey to discuss their live set, musical influences…
Arriving on Clapham Common from it’s usual Hyde Park setting, Calling Festival attempted to ease the pain for everyone who didn’t get a Glastonbury ticket and with Aerosmith and Stevie Wonder headlining, the certainly made people forget about Worthy Farm…
Having released a flurry of tracks throughout the first half of 2014, Matt Tarr caught up with grime mc and Roll Deep member Manga Saint Hilare in his studio in East London to discuss his recent tracks, directing his own…
With 2001’s ‘Drukqs’ being the most recent release from James D Hunter under his Aphex Twin alias, fans of the electronic musician and composer will have been ecstatic to see a digital copy of his lost album ‘Caustic Love’ surface…
Rating: Brothers Dylan, Daniel, Jesse and Johnny Kongos make up this alternative rock outfit, who lit up the US with their single ‘Come With Me Now’, and in the process became the fastest debut artist ever to hit the top…
Following the release of his brand new mixtape ‘Lost Souls’, Matt Tarr caught up with Coops to discuss the new release, supporting Nas at the O2 and the impact of US Hip Hop on the UK scene. MT: The first…
It has been a whole two months since the last Pitched Up event in the basement of Birthdays in Dalston. With event organisers 1Xtra’s DJ Target and grime legend Danny Weed having additional time to arrange a blockbuster line up…
Following a two year gap since their last release, northern funk duo Smoove and Turrell return with their third album, ‘Broken Toys’. Having supported disco legends Nile Rogers & Chic and Motown hit-makers Martha and the Vandellas since 2012’s ‘Eccentric…
With her new single ‘Psycho’ set to be released on Monday, Matt Tarr caught up with Lady Lykez to discuss the track, what influences her music and the difficulties with being an independent artist in the UK. MT: What was…
Being described as ‘a full-throttle soul screamer in the spirit of Little Richard, Wilson Pickett and Solomon Burke’ is something that most musicians would inevitably fail to live up to; that is, unless you are Barrence Whitfield. On a sweltering…