Frustrated with the creative output of The La’s (seemingly one album per lifetime), John Power formed Cast with fellow Scouse band Shack’s bass-player Peter Wilkinson. With Liam “Skin” Tyson (guitar) and Keith O’Neill (drums) making up the classic line-up, Cast…
Bombay Bicycle Club have never been the band to label as predictable so you can’t be surprised when listening to their 4th album ‘So Long, See You Tomorrow’. It’s been the longest wait we’ve had for an album from the…
Retaining credibility after 10 years, half a dozen albums and a slew of overplayed singles is no mean feat for a band of today. Maximo Park are a band who have never been far from our consciousness since their debut…
After a sex change, a line up re-shuffle and a theft of more than $15,000 of guitars en route to a show, American rockers ‘Against Me!’ have been through quite possibly the most punk rock time of their lives ….
Every ten years or so a band or artist comes out of New York to remind the world that the city is unequivocally the centre of the universe. Bob Dylan sang out of the Greenwich Village café in the 60s,…
Thirteen years have passed since Ed Harcourt’s first release ‘Maplewood’. ‘Time of Dust’, the new album of the English songwriter, released this month couldn’t be much different. The six-tracks mini-album is a “collection of evil songs”: deep and dusky sounds, cycling synth…
Black Submarine are a band comprised of old heads with new sensibilities. Band members have previously been part of The Verve (Nick McCabe on guitar and Simon Jones on bass) and Portishead (Michele ‘Mig’ Schillace on drums), along with their…
“Thanks for being a part of this, get home safe, We’ll see you with a new record in 2014” A promise from Josh Franceschi at their last UK tour date, in late 2012. Since Josh uttered those words You Me…
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…
Since their 1997 debut ‘Young Team’, Mogwai have always been a band who strive to push the limits of what rock music can be. Their dynamic sound effortlessly transforms tranquil atmospheres into mind melting noise and fierce guitar riffs. 2008’s…