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…
There are these moments that are so short that they end before you realise they are happening, but so intense that they leave your body shivering, gasping for breath and utterly confused but longing for more. Coves’ Thursday night gig…
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…
At 16, I was pretending to care about my GCSEs, going to the park and just generally being not very productive. Declan Mckenna is 16 and he’s already getting spot plays on Radio 1. I definitely need to try harder….
Rating: It’s been a long two and a bit years since Imagine Dragons smacked the world round the eardrums with their hit-packed debut album, Night Visions, containing the explosive ‘Radioactive’, ‘On Top of the World’ and other such bangers. Having blown…
Rating: With their first, self-released EP, Colours, having reached No. 7 in the iTunes download alternative charts, Essex-based alternative pop band Youth Club‘s follow up, Brothers, has high expectations. Drawing inspirations from “summer and all things colourful”, the EP boasts a very pre-summer/anticipating summer feeling,…
Rating: ‘Pop’ has become quite the umbrella term. Part of the problem is being an abbreviation of ‘Popular Music’, the two terms are often used interchangeably. Isn’t that right Wikipedia? Yes, I believe it is. Now as someone who often…
ZIBRA are not your normal group of young guys in a band, in an age of growing new forms of technological advancements, they look back and take the best parts of the good old days to make their unique sound…
There are many reasons to love gigs in churches. There is the sense of novelty, the grandeur; there is the acoustics, and that heart-smackingly magical moment when the first note flies out into the cavernous space and, if you’re sitting…
Rating: With its outstanding bill of localised and enduring international talent, the 10th edition of Liverpool Music Week has certainly generated a lot of buzz this time around. Last Thursday night we headed to the O2 Academy, to revel in…