The current noise surrounding indie buzz-band Catfish and the Bottlemen should mean they’re a name you’re quite familiar with. If the name only conjures up bumbly folk impressions and steers you clear of their music, fear not friends, I am…
Even as the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band the world has ever known, you’re going to possess a treasure trove of phenomenal underexposed material. These are the ten best forgotten gems of The Rolling Stones’ mammoth back catalogue. Forgotten maybe,…
This November will mark the 10th anniversary of Kings of Leon’s second studio album, ‘Aha shake heartbreak’. To this day, this album is still my favorite from the Deep South, rockabilly tearaways. Sporting mum’s DIY haircuts, bushy beards and super…
The art of the guitarist is one that history has never drawn its gaze away from for too long, and whilst the obvious greats – Hendrix, Clapton, Page etc. – are known to even the most vaguely culturally aware human…
The brooding nonchalance. The kohl rimmed stare. The early introduction to A/B coupling at its finest: “No need to whine boy, I can hear that voice you use upon the phone, And there’s no need to be coy, that is…
Although he may not have approved of us all fawning over his death and pining for his return twenty years later, I’m sure Kurt Cobain would forgive us for obsessing over his music, in the way that he did about…
2014 is going too fast! March has been and went and was another memorable month for the ‘slutz. Maybe the biggest moment for us was celebrating our 1st birthday. We’ve come a long way baby! On the subject of birthdays, Gigslutz…
Arriving in early March, a week after Blur’s ‘Girls & Boys’ gave the nascent Britpop scene its first defining single, Vauxhall & I entered the charts at number one. Fans were quick to recognise the album as a career high, as were…
Last week the much-anticipated Svengali, written by and starring Johnny Owen, arrived in cinemas nationwide. It tells the familiar story of Dixie, a mod from South Wales, whose deepest desire is to find and manage the next big band. It…
Written by Shivam Sukha of Turks & Underdog for Hijacker Records 1. SecondCity – I Wanna Feel Sampling Toni Braxton’s, You’re Makin’ Me High – a slamming piano line revolves around a vocal sample so bubblegum that it modulates the…