Rating: Brand Gallagher gives you what you want, just don’t go expecting too much: Riverman: Here comes the same clipped acoustic riff of old and it’s as if he never left 1995, trapped in a warp of time, imitating himself, treading…
Rating: ‘Glory Days’ as the opener to Carl Barat‘s latest LP, Let It Reign, is reminiscent of the blues of The Rolling Stones, coupled with an impassioned delivery á la Strummer. Barat is proud of this assault on your eardrums, you…
Rating: It’s a bitter, late January wind that blows down Brick Lane but the window panes fronting Rough Trade, a record shop that nestles in the abdomen of the old Truman Brewery, reveal a big city enthusiasm that cannot be…
Rating: The sideburns are still there, the wolfish grin, the voice pitched somewhere between a soulful wail, a Weller-esque growl and the agitated pop of Iggy. But there’s something a bit more tailored about Gaz Coombes this time around. Matador…
There’s a guy asleep on the grass verge and he looks like he’s dead. Over by the parking bays where a few cars haphazardly nose the high kerb, a dog is chained to a palm tree next to an empty…