Author Archives: Becky Rogers

About Becky Rogers

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LISTEN: Hookworms share new track ‘On Leaving’

Hookworms have released new track ‘On Leaving’ from their upcoming album The Hum. With the album set for release on November 10, the Leeds based band are celebrating early with a UK tour ending with an album release hometown show…

Moseley Folk Festival 2014 – Friday Highlights

Set in the suburbs of Birmingham, Moseley Folk Festival reels in the top names of folk and increasingly more genres. The first day of the festival offered big names including The Smiths’ Johnny Marr, Sonic Youth’s Thurston Moore and Jimi…

INTERVIEW: JAWS

JAWS are Connor Schofield (vocals/guitar), Alex Hudson (guitar), Jake Cooper (bass) and Ed Geach (drums). Over the past 2 years the chilled-out summery Birmingham 4-piece have being treating us with singles such as ‘Stay In’ and ‘Gold’ and have found…

The Horrors LIVE @ Reading Festival 24.08.14

Has a band ever been more about reinventing themselves than The Horrors? Think back to the goth-punk Strange House days where you wouldn’t be able to see anything but the thin-leg policy, monochrome clothes and overly sprayed hair, whereas nowadays…

GIGSLUTZ INTERVIEW: The Slow Readers Club

The Slow Readers Club are an electro-indie band from Manchester made up of Aaron Starkie (vocals/keyboard), Kurtis Starkie (vocals/guitar), James Ryan (bass) and David Whitworth (drums). Following the release of their most recent single ‘Start Again’ on July 21, we…

LISTEN: Kate Nash announces new track ‘She Rules’

Kate Nash has revealed her most recent release ‘She Rules’ – the first release since her third album Girl Talk last year. Available to download for free via her Soundcloud, the track will surely raise rumours over the beginning of…

ALBUM REVIEW: Owl John ‘Owl John’

Rating: “These will not be Frightened Rabbit songs. These will be John’s songs.” When a band starts off as a solo project like Frightened Rabbit did back in 2003 there has to be part of them that wants to try…

EP REVIEW: Dumb ‘Chew Me Up, Spit Me Out’

Rating: Dumb may be a recent addition to the big Brum hype but they don’t appear like the latecomers. The last year has seen them build a bigger fan base with support slots for the likes of Baby Strange, Superfood…