London-born artist Xploder has been making waves in the UK scene for a while now. He was crowned winner of the MOBO Awards London Unsung competition back in 2012 and since then has received widespread airplay on major national radio…
Ahead of a UK tour next year, including stops at the Royal Albert Hall and Leeds First Direct Arena, Paul Heaton & Jacqui Abbott take to the stage of a much more intimate Electric Ballroom in Camden, as part of…
Pacing along Islington’s Upper St. past the clocked-off, already well-oiled Friday crowds, we’re itching to arrive inside the Assembly Hall’s ornate four walls and soak up some sublime, understated song courtesy of The Clientele and co. In celebration of the…
Having recently returned from Ibiza where he was delivering a limited number of white label remixes of new track ‘Minotaur’ to select DJs on the dance island, Bazza Mills caught up with Gigslutz nominated artist Pete MacLeod to talk about…
With five records to their name and over two decades of experience in penning sublime, moonlit psych-pop, we spoke with Alasdair MacLean of The Clientele to discuss their recently released career-spanning compilation Alone & Unreal, how they’re free from the…
With a band name basically born from a sign for a tennis club in Cheshire, Hooton Tennis Club are simple, yet eloquent. The foursome formulates an explosion of new-wave garage with the uplifting lo-fi pop of their debut album Highest…
Rating: Like Jazz, Country and Western is a broad church with many different voices and styles of angels. Phillippe Bronchtein hails from Montreal, but now lives in Portland. Compared to Kerouac (wash your mouth out with soap), this is an…
“A-man-with-an-acoustic-guitar” is a phrase that has the potential to fill any listener with a lot of understandable dread. The music industry is inundated with such acts, and to not fall into the grave of the awfully-nice-but-dull, there has to be a certain…
The ninth instalment of the Summer Series shows at Somerset House took place on Friday, with a stunning R&B line up of Zak Abel, Raleigh Ritchie and a breath-taking headliner from hotly tipped “one to watch” Kwabs. Wowing crowds with an…
The world was a strange place in July 1980. The hood of Thatcher had opened to reveal a big bad wolf; nuclear war was a distinct (sometimes accidental) possibility. Liverpool was still in a post-Beatles hangover, shutting its ears to…