Rating: My first encounter with Sivu was fairly up close and personal. I, like over half a million others, watched the artist perform whilst inside an MRI scanner, the beautifully bleak ‘Better Man Than He’. So, what were our first…
Rating: As part of the Doc ‘n Roll Film Festival, Hackney Picturehouse hosted a special screening of Our Vinyl Weighs a Ton, which tells the amazing story of acclaimed avant garde label Stones Throw Records and its founder Chris Manak…
Rating: There has always been something paradoxical about Tom Vek, something quietly contrary. Coming out of nowhere with his first album We Have Sound in 2005, his uncompromising and assuredly wry style set him apart and found him adorning the…
The new single from The Sherlocks cements them as one of the best new indie bands today – strong vocals and undeniably catchy riffs power through this unstoppable tune. These two sets of brothers from Sheffield have worked themselves up…
Rating: It’s the third of The 1975’s four nights at Manchester Apollo, but because of confusing additional dates, it is as Matt Healy says, “the one that sold out first”. I love seeing a band come back to do a big hometown…
Rating: Delora are a three-piece indie-pop girl band hailing from London who have just released their debut EP, Superglue and – within just 6 months of being a band – these girls have attracted a plethora of attention. Clearly it’s…
This week, Green Man festival announced their day-by-day stage line-ups, and – damn it – it has thrown up a few conundrums. Slint or East India Youth? The War On Drugs or Panda Bear? Neutral Milk Hotel or Kurt Vile,…
Rating: It truly amazes me how the mighty Callum Borrows, aka Saint Raymond, can keep churning out summer hits. I was naïve to think ‘Young Blood’ would be the soundtrack to the multitude of festivals I was attending: ‘I Want…
Rating: Gum Takes Tooth are a London based electronic duo who take all the preconceived notions of what electronic music can sound like and toss them out the window. The band’s sound is strong rooted in a DIY ethic and…
The days where you’d google “Superfood” and find nothing but pages of sites listing which fruit and veg are packed full of promises about curing your lifelong problems are long behind us. It’s been over a year since the unveiling…