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LIVE: The Wave Pictures – The 100 Club, London 25.02.15

It’s pretty criminal that The Wave Pictures have been plugging away at this music lark for so long and haven’t gained more widespread attention. I suppose in an industry so often dominated by smoke screens over substance you can see…

ALBUM: To Kill A King ‘To Kill A King’

Rating: Anthems. British bands love them. From Oasis to Coldplay, it is the huge choruses we remember. The moments during gigs when we cast our eyes to the sky, hug a total stranger and belt out the melody like it…

LIVE: The War On Drugs – Brighton Dome 22.02.15

With a slow-burning magnetism that dares you to look away as it imperceptibly builds up a critical mass to blossom into a payoff of mega proportions, any individual song by The War On Drugs could be seen as a microcosm…

Ones to Watch: …And The Hangnails

With March seeing the release of their latest single ‘Everybody’s Luck’, and their new album Dog on its way this year, …And The Hangnails are definitely ones to keep an eye on in the coming months. The York duo (Martyn Fillingham…

Book Review: ‘Girl In A Band’ by Kim Gordon

“So, what’s it like to be a girl in a band?” This is the question the English press would repeatedly ask Kim Gordon (and one quoted in 2009’s ‘Sacred Trickster’) when Sonic Youth were starting out, and one which she seeks to…

New Track: Beach Baby – ‘Ladybird’

Beach Baby originally got together at the musically enriched Goldsmiths College in London. Originally started by co-vocalists Ollie and Lawrence, who advertised looking for members to join their (what was previously) folk-fuelled sound and dual writing partnership, bassist Iraklis swiftly joined the…