EP REVIEW: Batsch ‘Collar’

Rating: With their second release, Batsch tune up the distinction in their “dark disco” tunes, or “gutter glamour” as lead singer and guitarist Mason Le Long defines it, and layer on the groove. Relative clarity, abstract alliteration and proliferation of…

LISTEN: La Roux shares new album online

La Roux has streamed her eagerly anticipated new LP ‘Trouble In Paradise’ online ahead of it’s release next week. ‘Trouble In Paradise’ is due to grace the world on July 21 (next Monday), but before then synth-pop artist Elly Jackson…

LIVE: The LaFontaines @ T In The Park 12.07.14

Who: The LaFontaines Where: T-Break Tent When: 17:55 – 18:25 Three years after their T in the Park debut, Scotland’s “secret weapon” The LaFontaines deliver a high-intensity action-packed celebratory performance in the T-Break tent. Revelling in the electrified atmosphere, the…

Broken Men LIVE @ X&Y Festival, Liverpool, 11.07.14.

Rating: One of the best things about more smaller, intimate festivals, is the potential of discovering new bands in a different environment before they “make the big time”, and X&Y did exactly that, more specifically in the form of Broken Men….

Unsigned Act Of The Week: Wildfowl

Rating: Wildfowl are an up and coming alternative trio from Kent including members Rory Bell on vocals and guitar, Shaun Meaney on bass and Adam Green on drums and percussion. Having recently finished their debut UK tour promoting single release ‘Jezebel’ in…

LISTEN: Speedy Ortiz reveal ‘Bigger Party’ track

Massachusetts indie rockers Speedy Ortiz have shared new song ‘Bigger Party’. The release is the band’s latest material to be aired by Adult Swim Singles, since their ‘Red Hair’ EP came out earlier this year. ‘Bigger Party’ has been released…