Rating: Finding himself playing guitar for the iconic Happy Mondays, co-launching the ‘Getloaded’ club night at London’s Turnmills nightclub, supporting the likes of Glastonbury 2014 headliners Kasabian and developing Rick Genest AKA Zombie Boy’s music project in LA last year, it seems…
Rating: Lonely The Brave had an unbelievably successful 2013; the band held an opening slot for Deftones in Paris, played a set at Reading and Leeds festival as well as having made a crucial signing to Hassle Records. It seems…
Rating: With such a long and productive career, it’s not surprising that Ryan Adams has done the whole reverential thing once or twice, in 2010 ‘Orion’ saw him turn away from softly-softly alt country all the way to sci-fi metal. This…
Rating: Listen up because Brighton boys The Kooks are back in town and by the sounds of their latest release, they’re here to stay. Even though the world had grown tired of The Kooks’ feel-good pop anthems by 2011’s release…
Rating: In recent years, I’ve come to regard Interpol with a similar affection to how you might feel about an ex who you no longer fancy but still retain some very fond memories of. Back in 2002, Turn on the…
Rating: To announce your return from a three year lapse into obscurity with a double album seems quite a galling and somewhat overblown affair, yet that is precisely what Aussie band The Vines have done with their sixth album, Wicked…
Rating: Avalanches of noise combined with fat and nasty guitar riffs; endless drum beats overlapped with obscene bass lines; bitter keyboards and the mute howl of inexistent vocals that enhance the mammoth sound, in a collection of nine pieces that…
Rating: Death-disco duo DZ Deathrays are back. Another duo you say? Yes. But don’t worry, there isn’t a sniff of blues to be found here. Promise. 2012’s Bloodstreams was the Aussie’s first full length effort and packed one hell of a…
Rating: Royal Blood were winning the plaudits of those in high musical places over a year ago. When Matt Helders of the Arctic Monkeys takes the stage in one of your t-shirts – he did exactly that at Glastonbury last…
Rating: Erland & The Carnival can easily be filed under the category of ‘underrated’, having been the brainchild of legendary guitarist Simon Tong and Erland Cooper following a chance meeting. Their fusion of Scottish and English folk with a modern…