The underground and unsigned music scene is producing the best upcoming alt and electro-pop right now. We’re in the digital age now and rather than creating meaningless David Guetta MacBook garbage, musicians have taken it upon themselves to make fresh…
I can remember the first time that I heard the Scissor Sisters’ debut album and fell in love with it immediately; I feel the exact same about this debut album by the rather splendid, Swiss Lips. It’s hard to believe…
At the nucleus of any self-respecting artist is a DIY ethos, and for many, in the manner of which they started their careers alone, they are wont to come full circle. Understandably, David Ivar – the sole creative force behind…
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…
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…
From Madonna’s first ever UK show in October 1983 to Prince’s surprise show on February 2nd 2015, the stars have lined-up to play a venue as prestigious as KOKO, and this was the turn of Nottingham’s Saint Raymond. The 19-year-old singer-songwriter…
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: Over the years in the UK, we’ve been known around the world for our boy/girl bands. From The Beatles to the Spice Girls and now One Direction, we’ve never been short of a collective of young men or women…
Having wowed us with their last track ‘Down For Me’, female four-piece IV Rox return with their next offering, taken from their forthcoming debut EP Imperfections, ‘Badder Than A Mother’. Featuring one of the most in-demand MC’s of the moment,…
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…