Life announce their new single ‘Go Go Go’, taken from their forthcoming 4-track debut EP ‘I Knew I Was a Rat’, released on Birthday Records on 11th May 2015. Life play ‘This Feeling’ Leeds, Sheffield and London next month. For…
Rating: After the wait of twelve years, The Magic Whip is the next instalment for Blur, and is their most intimate and honest album so far. Blur seem to be doing their own thing, without aiming for the commercialisation. Albarn, Coxon,…
Rating: East India Youth is 23 year old William Doyle, a talented man from the shores of Bournemouth. The name comes from East India Docks, the place where he worked on his debut Mercury nominated album, Total Strife Forever. “Bournemouth…
The Rising’s new 7″ double A side single – FREE MY SOUL TONIGHT / IF YOU GET WITH ME – available from Detour Records The Rising are fronted by Tommy Overington. He′s a star, and he means it! Great tunes…
Rating: Billed as “themes from an imaginary film”, MG in many ways pays homage to the film work of Vangelis and Tangerine Dream. This is a nod and wink to his influences both as a band member and as an individual,…
Four piece Pretty Vicious are a group of five teenagers making music for clubs their age permits them to remain outside the walls of. Following the Welsh group’s first single, ‘Cave Song’ – which caused an almighty storm in the…
What better end to another sunny Spring evening than skanking along to some soulful reggae…? I arrive at Shepherd’s Bush Empire just in time to catch the majority of the ever luminous Hollie Cook’s uplifting set. It really is a…
Rating: With vintage twanging blues riffs and Brittany Howard’s big hearted wails, Alabama Shakes stood amongst the crowds of synthy shoegazers and indie posers and delivered a masterclass in rootsy Southern soul grooves when they broke in 2012. They went on to…
Rating: I don’t know what they’re putting in the water in Nottingham these days, but judging by the outpouring of new acts from the Queen of the Midlands over the past few years, they’re definitely doing something right. Indie-pop five-piece…
A sun-drenched Spring evening at The Southbank, and I’m making my way to the perfectly sized, extremely comfortable Queen Elizabeth Hall. It takes all of about two seconds from when Laura Marling takes to the stage and commences the set…