About Melissa Svensen
Melissa, 22. Editor. Student, music journalist, probably talking about Blur or Bowie
Following their last single – 2014’s ‘What’s In It For Me’ – Astrid’s Tea Party have now released ‘Black Swan’. With a track as strong as this it’s easy to get totally distracted by the music; Astrid’s Tea Party describe…
Everything you need to know about The Mynabirds can be summed up by the Jack Kerouac quote that inspired their third album. As the quote goes: “The only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad…
Despite it’s somewhat unappealing nature – small, sweaty and very basic – there’s an undeniable charm to Nambucca. As the starting point for many great bands, it’s got a fantastic history, it’s never short of interesting characters and, as I…
With the return of Ride, and the likes of DIIV creating a newer shoegaze scene, the latest offering comes in the form of La Casa Al Mare, an Italian three-piece from Rome, who are certainly on a mission – and seemingly…
Rating: In the past few months, Gengahr have joined the likes of Superfood and Wolf Alice in becoming one of the biggest sensations in new indie music; thus, the release of their debut album, A Dream Outside, has been a…
Mac DeMarco If you need any tips on how to completely steal everyone else’s thunder at a festival, look no further than Mac DeMarco. Bang on time, looking like an indie teenage girls dream in army print dungarees, DeMarco kicks…
Telegram Setting the bar high for the rest of the weekend at the Jägerhaus tent, Telegram – all skinny jeans and sunglasses – owned the stage with unapologetic force. Before entering the tent the festival seemed relatively empty (as you’d…
If you’ve been unsuccessful in looking for today’s answer to Joy Division or The Jesus And Mary Chain, you’ve clearly just been looking in the wrong places. The right place, that is, being an old underground air-raid shelter in Copenhagen……
Kicking off the evening at Tooting Tram & Social – tucked away in an alley in Tooting, with a Jamaican fast food van out front and inside feeling like a bizarre mix of a Whetherspoons pub and some sort of…
Originally the bedroom project of keys player Llinos Griffiths and guitar player/vocalist Ben Trow, Seazoo are one of many bands springing up from the rather unlikely home of North Wales. The momentum for Seazoo came through good old-fashioned radio play;…