Morain – ‘Worlds Apart’ EP Review

Following the success of their last EP – 2012’s ‘Are We Lost?’ – Wakefield four-piece, Morain, now give us their latest EP, ‘Worlds Apart’. The strength of this creation shows that the year and a half spent lapping up their new…

Gigslutz Interview: Dimond Saints

By Drums Eat Everything for Hijacker Records. Deep from the heart of the Dimond District in Oakland, California, West Coast electronic music pioneer An-Ten-Nae and beat master Releece joined forces to form Dimond Saints and make deep, bassy grooves fatter than your best…

ALBUM REVIEW: Dexters ‘Shimmer Gold’

Released this week (17th March), Dexters have offered the world its debut album ‘Shimmer Gold’. Packed full of Kinks and Ray Davis inspired lyrics, the album combines bygone semantics with an optimistic indie sound to bridge the gap between ‘good-old’…

For The Record: Kasabian ‘Kasabian’ (2004)

Leicester-massive Kasabian are now stalwarts on the British music scene.  Continuously playing live and releasing new tracks to generally warm reviews, it’s hard to imagine British Indie without them now.  For many, 2009’s ‘West Ryder Pauper Lunatic Asylum’ is the band’s…

Metronomy LIVE @ Manchester Ritz 14.3.14

  Metronomy, having just released their fourth album ‘Love Letters’, made their way to Manchester on Friday night for a gig at the Ritz the third date of their extensive European tour. Lead singer Joe Mount says it’s “one of…

Tracks Of The Week 17.03.14

If it’s a bit of ebullient garage-rock you’re after, then Norwegian Grammy nominated, Death By Unga Bunga, are the guys for you. About to release their third album, DBUG’s new single – ‘Tambourine’  – is full of catchy, trippy melodies…

X&Y Festival announce Half Moon Run as headliners

Following the blinding success of the past two years X&Y returns to Liverpool on 11th July, this time within the confines of Liverpool Uni Mountford Hall, to deliver the best in much loved and up and coming bands. Canadian band…

Angel Haze LIVE @ Heaven, Charing Cross 11.3.14

Tonight a predominantly female audience has turned up to watch Angel Haze perform at Heaven, with a couple of bearded men thrown in for good measure.  As my gig companion wryly puts it ‘the Candy Bar may have shut down…

Nick Mulvey LIVE @ Norwich Arts Centre 10/03/14

Solo English singer-songwriter, Nick Mulvey, has released two EPs – The Trellis and Fever to the Form – but is best known for his catchy 2014 single Cucurucu which featured as Zane Lowe’s hottest record of the week and reached number…