These are turbulent times, and the turbulent and haphazard album release cycle for Notes On A Conditional Form at least reflects that, if nothing else.…
As the home of Blondie, Talking Heads and the CBGB club, new wave’s symbiotic relationship with New York is vital to its enduring legacy. It’s…
Charli XCX has caused quite the stir, and no, it’s not because somebody asked her to sign their dead grandmother’s ashes or anal douche again.…
Whether you love to hate them or hate to love them, there will have been few who could have predicted the rise to prominence of…
No musician hits the sweet spot between fragility and catharsis quite like Mike Hadreas. Performed under the guise of Perfume Genius, his work delves into…
Moses Sumney is a surprisingly funny guy. Having had the pleasure of witnessing him on the Aromanticism tour, it was peculiar yet fitting how witty…
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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
The National have always attracted the somewhat backhanded compliment of a “grower” band. It’s a label freighted with the slightly lazy assumption that after over-repeated…
The way in which MGMT’s second album Congratulations shocked and largely alienated their fanbase upon its roll-out in 2010 seems increasingly like a phenomenon from…
Far from fulfilling 20th century pop culture’s visions of what the turn of the millennium might be like in musical and cultural terms, the year…
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
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…
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…
1970s
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…
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…
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…
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…
When bands achieve a certain level of fame and exposure, it becomes hard to know which direction to go in. Do you double down on…
Three and a half decades, 15 studio albums and countless EPs, compilations and side-projects into their career, Yo La Tengo are nothing short of an…
