Burial’s identity within electronic music is near that of an urban myth. With only one proper image attached to his name, the South Londoner Will…
It has been 14 years since South Carolina singer/songwriter Sam Beam (better known by the moniker Iron & Wine) and Arizona-based indie rock outfit Calexico…
With an Americana bravado, the Atlanta-based outfit Mattiel, consisting of singer Mattiel Brown and the InCrowd - Randy Michael and Jonah Swilley in tandem working…
The subtle yet prominent evolution of Bill Callahan’s music throughout his career reflects the growth of any individual’s personality, and their perceived self-image. After finally…
Bruce Springsteen’s newly released, 19th studio album Western Stars will not be his last. Approaching the ripe old age of 70, he and his faithful…
It’s not known to many, but at one point in his career Noel Gallagher was dabbling in space rock – or at least his own…
As the Nineties indie scene begins to be re-appraised with more diversity and depth than it’s usually explored, groups like Stereolab are gradually coming to…
While summer seems to have deserted the country, in a case of nature reflecting the human condition as the grim politics of our present unravels,…
Founded in late 1998 in London by two former major label A&R men, the avowedly independent Moshi Moshi Records has consistently played a small but…
Gigs & Festivals
Ezra Collective @ Belgrave Music Hall, Saturday 22nd June Ezra Collective, a brilliant London five-piece, is returning to Leeds this week for yet another exciting…
It’s a sunny day in Wakefield on the first day of summer for the 2019 edition of Long Division Festival, and the sound of first…
If you want to go cheesy, you’ll call him the Canadian prince of indie rock. If you want to go overused, you’ll call him an…
2000s
It was about Dirty Projectors’ incredible breakout album Bitte Orca that Time Magazine’s Josh Tyrangiel birthed the immortal critical phrase “making the critic’s job undoable”…
Although they’ve now got a reputation as one of the country’s most prestigious and longest-running indie acts, at the start of 2009 The Horrors were…
Looking back on the entirety of Noughties nearly a decade on, indeed as the following one is drawing to a close, it’s easier to get…
1990s
Before the globe-conquering success of their 1999 album Californication, notorious Californian funk and alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers were in a state of turmoil…
Much was made a couple of years ago when Radiohead’s OK Computer turned 20 years old, with dozens of think-pieces and commentators pointing out the…
It’s been written about to death at this point, but it’s still difficult to truly emphasise how baffling Weezer’s career has been. After tearing up…
1980s
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…
Three decades after the release of their self-titled debut album, there’s very little left to say about The Stone Roses at this point in history.…
Alternative rock legends Pixies have been chasing the reformation dollar for the last decade and a half, playing festivals across the world and becoming the…
1970s
Can there possibly be a more famous cult album in existence than Unknown Pleasures? In the four decades since its release in June 1979, it’s…
By the second half of 1978, David Bowie was in a curious point in his career. He’d left Berlin in February of that year, having…
Influenced: Bauhaus, The Raincoats, Public Image Ltd., The Cure, Young Marble Giants, Joy Division, New Order, Killing Joke, Japan, Echo & The Bunnymen, Cocteau Twins,…
1960s
The ‘rock opera’ has had a chequered history as it has evolved in the half-century since the archetype was established in 1969. Like its close…
In between the dazzling avant-garde architecture of that 1967 debut album, still rightly celebrated today as one of the greatest albums in history, and the…
Influenced: The Stooges, New York Dolls, Ramones, Sex Pistols, The Clash, Dead Kennedys, Black Flag, Hüsker Dü, Public Enemy, Rage Against The Machine, Primal Scream,…
As a companion piece to our annual end-of-year albums list published earlier this month, The Student Playlist presents The Top 50 Tracks of 2018. You…
Although it’s been a year pock-marked with political and social uncertainty, that sense of upheaval and tension has resulted in some pretty fine art being…
Revisiting any period in popular music is always interesting, insofar as one’s memories of it change and evolve as time passes and the present gets…
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…
It doesn’t matter how big you might have been, ten years is a long time to be away. Certainly enough for an entirely new generation…
Dozens of icons of the world of independent and alternative music, as well as many in the world of pop, paid tribute to Scott Walker…
