Mush’s debut album 3D Routine has been widely anticipated for some time. Since they emerged in the second half of 2018, the Leeds-based post-punk outfit…
Ever since her last release, 2014’s critically acclaimed Trouble In Paradise, Elly Jackson has been on an arduous personal and professional journey. Citing a maelstrom…
Taking a break is something that’s clearly out of Rachel Aggs’ jurisdiction. The architect of acclaimed post-punk bands including Trash Kit, Golden Grrrls and Sacred…
While recording Poliҫa’s fifth album When We Stay Alive, the band’s vocalist Channy Leaneagh was going through the hardest time of her life, facing the…
Father Of All… is Green Day’s 13th studio album, and is selling itself as a return to basics, as it’s also their shortest, with a…
On Silver Tongue, 29-year-old Mackenzie Scott uses this, her fourth release as TORRES, to take a look at the choices she has made and the…
Catch up with all the best new music released throughout February 2020 so far with our playlist over at Spotify! Happy listening! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0RAZS8mTnYd0LeLWljJsgE?si=9MJfqubiQieKeReY7b0d8g
A new decade has begun, and although the immediate future may look bleak, fortunately the music scene has thrown up a great deal of quality…
Check out our Spotify playlist of all the best new music released throughout November 2019 by scrolling below! Happy listening! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6iLUpeazePuY0pHoyeTV1g?si=UxA2vWVyQRu3_ePm68j9xw
Gigs & Festivals
Dry Cleaning @ Hyde Park Book Club, Saturday 15th February Authors of ‘Magic Of Meghan’, one of the breakout indie hits of 2019, London-based quartet…
With an intimate, DIY feel, the Lending Room above perennial student favourite drinking hole The Library is the perfect testing ground for upcoming bands ready…
Peaness @ The Library Lending Room, Saturday 8th February Having been around for well over half a decade and with a clutch of brilliant EPs…
2000s
The start of the last decade is generally held to have been, at best, a fallow period for guitar-based indie music or, according to naysayers,…
In the face of the commercially lucrative garage-rock revival and the continuing reign of nu-metal that dominated what we were increasingly being compelled to call…
When people talk about Primal Scream, conversation immediately (and understandably) turns to Screamadelica, an album which forged deathless rock’n’roll thrills with the dominant house music…
1990s
Although house and techno had been causing moral and cultural shockwaves in Britain when it emerged as a youth phenomenon at the end of the…
Weeks before the turn of the 21st century, L.A. revolutionaries Rage Against The Machine unleashed a new album, reminding the world once again of the…
There’s a line in ‘How Fucking Romantic’, halfway through the first disc in The Magnetic Fields’ massive triple-album 69 Love Songs, in which Dudley Klute,…
1980s
1984 was a year of landmark underground albums in the American indie scene, with seminal records by Hüsker Dü, R.E.M. and Minutemen all released in…
In the aftermath of their legendary party-starting debut Licensed To Ill in 1986, Beastie Boys were in a curious place. They moved to the West…
Since their inception in the late ‘70s in the wake of punk, Robert Smith and the rotating cast of The Cure have become a globally…
1970s
On June 6th, 1970, the stage at the Kensington Olympia in West London played host to the first live performance by Syd Barrett. This was…
Given their reputation as British punk’s most creative and firebrand outfit, The Clash’s status as one of the canonical all-time great bands seems like it…
40 years on from its release, The Wall remains one of the most celebrated concept albums of all time, as well as one of history’s…
1960s
Pop critics and historians have never been able to agree on what exactly caused the Sixties utopian ideal of love, peace and understanding to expire,…
Progressive rock, or ‘prog rock’, has consistently had something of a tainted reputation in the world of music criticism ever since the punk revolution in…
Not only is it one of the defining pop culture images of the 20th century, but, in retrospect, the iconic front cover of Abbey Road…
The indestructible gold standard for pop since the dawn of the recording age, the single format benefitted from an explosion in technology that made its…
To adapt that famous misquotation attributed to Mark Twain, reports of the album’s death have been greatly exaggerated. Ever since the turn of the millennium,…
The final year of this benighted decade we’ve been sometimes compelled to call ‘The Teens’, 2019 has been a strange one for music. As seems…
Usually, when summarising the career of an artist in the wake of tragedy, there is a formality to the style, one filled with clichés like…
Lennon and McCartney; Morrissey and Marr; the Gallagher brothers. Some of the most iconic pop music ever made has been predicated by immense partnerships. Looking…
It’s been almost two decades since Pavement were active in any meaningful way, the group’s component parts quietly parting ways in the pursuit of solo…
