Lighters out for the swooning, crooning indie of the season, as Feldspar channel Keane, Snow Patrol and The National (minus the crusty hangover taste) on self-released third single ‘Beautiful People’. Centred around the delicate songwriting talents of Will Green, they…
Colin Vearncombe tells Dave Sedgwick about brushes with Euro stalkers, Fame and taking care of the tribe. “Some men are born great, some achieve greatness”, wrote Shakespeare, “and some (quoth the bard) have greatness thrust upon ‘em.” He was right…
Rating: Despite Motörhead having been on the road for almost 40 years, it is still an unbeatable gear of filth and boisterous noise; a black beast packed with anger and ready to detonate its sonic impurity to the loyal audience…
Promoting unsigned artists is something we at Gigslutz feel extremely passionate about, with our regular ‘Unsigned Act Of The Week’ and ‘Ones To Watch’ features, as well as a wealth of reviews and premieres. Celebrating new artists, or even people…
Rating: Royksopp are one of those groups, like Moby, who suffer from only being known really for one album, despite creating many other albums of the same quality. For Royksopp that album 2001’s Melody AM, and for Moby that album is Play….
Rating: What can you say about The Specials that hasn’t already been written? They are a band who have earned their stripes and are still managing to mix up the music scene nearly 40 years on since they were formed….
Rating: When recording a debut album it helps to tick a few boxes up front: Get Josh Hommes’ mate and lead singer of Eagles of Death Metal to produce it… Tick. Record it in an uber-cool musical Mecca in California… Tick….
Rating: Following up 2013’s Pearl Mystic at all is one thing, but releasing an album even better just one year on is incredible: Leeds DIY-preaching psych-noise enthusiasts Hookworms have outdone themselves with The Hum. The 35 minute psych onslaught is broken…
Rating: With the stage name Jesus Fucking Christ, any debut EP emerging from the mind of Remi Semshaug Langseth isn’t going to be mild-mannered or well behaved. In fact, Homophobia Is Like Totally Gay can’t even sit still long enough…
2014 has been a landmark year for East London MC Ghetts. With his album Rebel With A Cause gaining critical acclaim and hitting #23 in the UK albums chart and having been nominated for a string of MOBO Awards, Matt…