Having only formed in 2017, the Dublin-based group Fontaines D.C. propelled into popularity following the release of Dogrel in 2018. An accomplished and intelligent debut,…
Swedish artist Thea Gustafsson is the performer, songwriter, arranger AND producer of all the material that is released under her pseudonym, Becky And The Birds.…
Like Nirvana is the fourth LP from Australian pop group Cub Sport, a rapid-fire follow-up to their self-titled which came out just last year. Cub…
The Harriets are an indie-pop band hailing from the great city of Leeds. Previous to their debut full-length release, Hopefuls, they had released a range…
As tongue-in-cheek as ever, Dream Wife are back with their second album So When You Gonna, and whilst it’s not the furthest development from their…
Lianne La Havas’ first two records, 2012’s Is Your Love Big Enough? and 2015’s Blood, brimmed with vocal and instrumental talent but both fell slightly…
Once you expand your conception and understanding of popular music to include soundtracks, it immediately becomes clear that Ennio Morricone, the much-revered Italian composer who…
Check out our playlist of all the best new music to be released throughout July 2020! Happy listening! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/7CkuYG7VfgrfhJhR1Qcopd?si=qhLDkVygTOq2l2NA9muQSg
Catch up with all the best new music released throughout the month of June 2020 with our Spotify playlist, available here or at the bottom of this page. Happy listening! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6dNLV16SWNitu8j7GVE1q0?si=ye2heACORyK9-VcSLMlyXw
Gigs & Festivals
All information correct at the time of publishing - to our knowledge! - regarding Coronavirus cancellations Band.io presents ‘Grl Pwr’ @ Hyde Park Book Club,…
Mush @ Brudenell Social Club, Saturday 7th March Riding high on the recent release of their debut album 3D Routine, a collage of jaunty DIY…
Supergrass @ Leeds O2 Academy, Sunday 1st March Commercially successful yet perennially underrated in the context of Britpop, Oxford-based trio Supergrass announced last year that…
2000s
It’s hard to remember a time when Arcade Fire weren’t a top-tier, festival headlining act. Right from their flawless first album Funeral, released quietly in…
Released in the summer of 2000 to only minor commercial success but avalanches of critical acclaim, The Moon & Antarctica played a key role in…
During the Nineties, a significant trend in popular culture fixated on the upcoming turn of the millennium, an anxious and often paranoid impulse that produced…
1990s
Although it was couldn’t possibly have been more out of step with the times when it was released into the height of Britpop in mid-1995,…
Traditionally, and somewhat unfairly, …I Care Because You Do is viewed as a kind of awkward middle child in Richard D. James’ discography as Aphex…
Britpop is often regarded as one of the last great upheavals in popular music, but it was not a revolution in comparison to previous movements,…
1980s
The story of Joy Division is such an oft-told one by 2020 that it’s amazing that anybody attempts to write about them at all anymore.…
To most people - certainly in America and, forty years on from their inception, probably most people in Britain too, sadly - Dexys Midnight Runners…
It’s very rare that a band seems to come out of absolutely nowhere to establish a completely new paradigm for thinking about the creation of…
1970s
Given their rightful status in music journalism circles as one of the very greatest garage-rock groups of all time, and certainly one of the most…
When considering Let It Be, the final album that The Beatles released in chronological terms but not the last music they created together, it’s hard…
Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil at the crossroads. Dave Davies taking a razor blade to his amps for the fuzzy riffs of…
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…
Robert Pollard’s unique reputation and position within the American alternative music scene is legendary, known as the ultra-prolific songwriter behind Guided By Voices, a handful…
At a point when rock and pop music’s most legendary artists and bands are being increasingly commemorated in re-issue campaigns, reunion tours and think pieces,…
Once described by Q magazine as “the biggest cult band in the UK”, there’s something comfortingly authentic about The Cribs' career trajectory over the nearly…
