Welcoming back Stereolab with their stunning new album Instant Holograms On Metal Film co-released by the band’s own label Duophonic UHF Disks, and Warp Records is akin to giving a heroes welcome when it was announced Funny Feet ice cream’s…
For fans of band’s from the 1960’s hearing the discovery of original reel to reel tapes of cherished recordings emerging from archived haunts, dusty attics or purchased via auction with a pending release of the recordings is not only celebrated…
Rating: Wigans own The Lilacs release their latest EP, ‘The 395 (To Forveer), and continue their run of blisteringly hot, anthemic releases. Opening up the release is, “Where You Been Hiding?” which effortlessly sets the tone, with a guitar riff…
“I got kicked out of the band … fired by me best mate.” Noel Gallagher. Tailgunner were formed in 2000 with Mark Coyle on guitar/vocals, Paul Stacey on bass and a certain Noel Gallagher on drums. The project was the…
Reminiscent to selecting a favourite morning cereal, Bedfordshire’s Matt Berry has released meticulous spoonfuls of music deliciousness to keep the gut and soul filled with plentiful of bristling sugary joy for 30 years. 2011’s Witchazel (Coco Pops), 2014’s Music for…
Rewind to the early 1990’s Wigans The Verve featuring floppy haired futurist vocalist Richard Ashcroft, feedback creature guitarist Nick McCabe, seamless bassist Simon Jones and Charlie Watts-esque drummer Peter Salisbury were a shoeless, but far from soulless, indie wigout quartet…
Fitting into acceptable landscape windows of mainstream entertainment has to be fronted with shiny smiles, the latest trending threads of the day along with sounds that sound as familiar as those banal robotic overly manufactured mundane top 40 smashes. Back…
The 1960’s gave birth to a hive of jazz legends creating albums of eternal substance that still ring true in circles of fans 50 odd years later; Bobby Hutcherson San Francisco featuring the steady groove of Ummh; Love Supreme by…
Photo credit: Tom Norris Post-punk three-piece RIZTS announce their arrival with the rip-roaring self titled debut LP . A catalogue of alternative music, from post-punk to trash, paying homage to the past but always looking firmly forward. Kicking off the…
Fast-rising Singaporean metal outfit RESERATE release their debut LP, ‘Introspect’, a hard-hitting, no-holds barred affair that pays homage to the alternative music of the past, whilst still succeeding in pushing the genre of metalcore forward. Opening up the album is the…