After having watched Years & Years perform live at this year’s Open’er Festival, I couldn’t help the feeling that the one-hour set wasn’t quite enough…
After leaving their mark at both last year’s SXSW and Great Escape festivals, Bodega have already released their debut Endless Scroll, only months after releasing…
Given that they’ve been around for well over three decades and have been signed to a major label for a quarter of a century, it’s…
“Songwriting can often be dictated by the environment you grow up in or the social/political climate. It does currently feel like there is a wave…
Let’s Eat Grandma is not the name of a band you’d necessarily expect two girls barely out of their teens to be behind, but since their…
When Gorillaz released the seminal Plastic Beach in 2010 to critical acclaim, their first record in five years at the time, they followed it the…
June means that it’s officially summer for students! Unless you’re doing a Masters – in which case commiseration, keep on going! There’s been no Glastonbury…
Football songs, particularly official English ones, are similar to James Bond themes and have a long and chequered history. Most are terrible, some are pretty…
With all the spectacular weather that we’ve had in May, the British festival summer is well and truly under way. Leeds alone has thrown its…
Gigs & Festivals
Quantic @ Brudenell Social Club, Wednesday 13th July A British DJ and producer Quantic, a.k.a. Will Holland, is known for his imaginative fusion of electronic…
English people tend to talk about nothing else when either a) it’s sunny, b) England are not useless at football, or c) both. As it’s…
Declan McKenna @ Brudenell Social Club, Saturday 30th June Declan McKenna is often considered to be one of the most interesting and promising young talents…
2000s
Influenced: The Lumineers, Laura Marling, The War On Drugs, Real Estate, Beach House, Grizzly Bear, Ben Howard, The Tallest Man On Earth, Mumford & Sons,…
Influenced: Pissed Jeans, Japandroids, Wavves, Ty Segall, Bass Drum Of Death, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Metz, Cloud Nothings, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Speedy Ortiz, FIDLAR, Moon Duo,…
Influenced: Imogen Heap, Fever Ray, Beak>, Kanye West, Lana Del Rey, Grimes, The Weeknd, Phantogram, Gorillaz, HAELOS Influenced by: Ennio Morricone, Can, Neu!, Kraftwerk, Brian…
1990s
Ironically, despite it feeling so much like the start of a new era both in pop and her own career, Debut was not the first…
Influenced: PJ Harvey, The Breeders, Sleater-Kinney, Tori Amos, Alanis Morissette, Garbage, Fiona Apple, Cat Power, Bright Eyes, Rilo Kiley, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Aimee Mann, Beth…
For fans of: Radiohead, Blur, Manic Street Preachers, Super Furry Animals, Placebo, Eels, My Life Story Influenced: The Delgados, The Beta Band, At The Drive-In,…
1980s
Influenced: A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Ice Cube, Wu-Tang Clan, Rage Against The Machine, The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy, The Pharcyde, Gang Starr,…
Influenced: Nirvana, The Lemonheads, Slint, Pavement, PJ Harvey, Belly, Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Brainiac, Guided By Voices, Weezer, Blur, Ash, The Dismemberment Plan, Grandaddy, The White…
Influenced: Sebadoh, Mudhoney, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Ride, Pixies, Superchunk, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Afghan Whigs, Modest Mouse, The White Stripes, The Cribs, Drenge, Kagoule,…
1970s
Influenced: Cerrone, Cabaret Voltaire, Gary Numan, Ultravox, Devo, Talking Heads, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, New Order, The Human League, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Pet…
Influenced: XTC, The Jam, Joe Jackson, Squeeze, Dexys Midnight Runners, Madness, Billy Bragg, The Pogues, Huey Lewis & The News, The Go-Betweens, The Beautiful South,…
Influenced: D.A.F., Throbbing Gristle, Steve Albini, New Order, Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, The Human League, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Nick Cave & The Bad…
1960s
Influenced: Bee Gees, 10cc, Todd Rundgren, Electric Light Orchestra, Paul Weller, XTC, Television Personalities, The La’s, The Boo Radleys, Super Furry Animals, of Montreal, Neutral…
Influenced: The Stooges, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Can, The Modern Lovers, Patti Smith, Television, Suicide, The Fall, Joy Division, Young Marble Giants, Swell Maps, Swans,…
Influenced: Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers, E.L.O., The Police, Prince, XTC, Pixies, The Stone Roses, Blur, Oasis, Neutral Milk Hotel,…
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…
When it came to writing this piece, the scale of the task became immediately apparent; how do you fit a century of jazz music into…
The medium of songwriting allows for expressive, concentrated statements of brilliance. In the span of (typically) just about three and a half minutes, talented artists…
Influenced: Megadeth, Rage Against The Machine, Alice In Chains, Carcass, Pantera, Sepultura, Ministry, Killswitch Engaged, System Of A Down, Slipknot Influenced by: The Stooges, Led…
Influenced: Radiohead, Animal Collective, Madonna, Moloko, Broadcast, Sigur Rós, The Knife, M.I.A., Goldfrapp, Portishead, Dirty Projectors, Robyn, Bat For Lashes, Fever Ray, Joanna Newsom, Regina…
Influenced: The Pop Group, The Raincoats, Talulah Gosh, Bow Wow Wow, The Runaways, Sonic Youth, The Go-Go’s, Fugazi, Neneh Cherry, The Breeders, Björk, PJ Harvey,…
