It’s incredibly difficult to put a finger on Ian Black, whose adventurous compositions wander around the music spectrum in a frantic way. On his second…
After first teasing it all the way back in 2015, Tinashe’s third record Joyride is finally here; it’s almost a direct continuation of her previous…
Breaking Benjamin, almost 20 years in the making, are not only highly regarded by the millions of metal fans that make up their fanbase but…
It’s perhaps fitting for a band as multi-faceted in their identity and approach as the Manic Street Preachers that the title of their 13th album,…
Under the recording moniker of Makeness, Scottish-born songwriter and producer Kyle Molleson has tried to forge links between the dissonance of industrial and post-rock music…
Eleven albums down the road and back from a four year ‘sabbatical’, E (more commonly known as Mark Oliver Everett) of Eels described their 12th…
Well, a quarter of 2018 has already gone, and while the adult world of politics looks increasingly terrifying, at least the music scene is hotting…
Guitar legends? Check. Beautiful weather? Check. Tapas? Check. Mad Cool is currently the fastest rising music festival in Europe, and it’s easy to see why.…
Only in Britain can some snow become a national headline event. Weather has always preoccupied the nation’s psyche – famously, it’s all that anybody over…
Gigs & Festivals
The hype in the air is palpable as Live At Leeds 2018 is right around the corner. As always, the one-day, inner-city affair will showcase…
If the prospect of returning to university with exams and possible dissertations on the horizon is filling you with dread, just remember that Leeds still…
The time is nearly upon us once again for Live At Leeds, the city-wide musical extravaganza held on Saturday May 5th 2018, the first bank…
2000s
Influenced: Twenty One Pilots, Crown The Empire, The 1975, Lil’ Peep, dodie Influenced by: The Beatles, The Beach Boys, The Kinks, The Small Faces, The…
Influenced: Everything Everything, Friendly Fires, Two Door Cinema Club, Local Natives, The Maccabees, Alt-J, Django Django, Jagwar Ma, Savages, Glass Animals, Wolf Alice, Portugal. The…
Influenced: Yeasayer, Local Natives, Real Estate, Foster The People, Lord Huron, Future Islands, Blossoms, Washed Out Influenced by: The Beatles, Simon & Garfunkel, Fela Kuti,…
1990s
Influenced: Radiohead, Gene, Placebo, The Killers, British Sea Power, Bloc Party, Christopher Owens, Blossoms, Sundara Karma, Spring King, The Big Moon Influenced by: The Velvet…
Influenced: Animal Collective, Bright Eyes, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Wilco, The Mountain Goats, Okkervil River, Modest Mouse, The Shins, Deerhunter, Sufjan Stevens, Arcade Fire, The Decemberists,…
Influenced: Cypress Hill, Snoop Dogg, Warren G, 2Pac, Notorious B.I.G., The Pharcyde, Blackstreet, Jay-Z, OutKast, Eminem, 50 Cent, Xzibit, T.I., YG, Travis Mills, Kendrick Lamar,…
1980s
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,…
Influenced: Blur, Suede, Manic Street Preachers, PJ Harvey, Jeff Buckley, Belle & Sebastian, Bright Eyes, Ryan Adams, Coldplay, The Libertines, Bloc Party, Arcade Fire, Arctic…
1970s
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…
Influenced: The Fall, Joy Division, The Cure, Gang Of Four, Minor Threat, Fugazi, Bad Brains, Mission Of Burma, Henry Rollins, Minutemen, fIREHOSE, Hüsker Dü, R.E.M.,…
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: The Dandy Warhols, Muse, Stereophonics, The Strokes, The Libertines, Razorlight, The Futureheads, The Kooks, Two Door Cinema Club, Tribes, Peace, The 1975, Blossoms, Gengahr…
Influenced: The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder, Dubstar, The Cardigans, Elastica, Garbage, Moby, The Avalanches, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Goldfrapp, Ladytron, Annie, The Go! Team, Warm Digits, Air…
Influenced: Cocteau Twins, Tears For Fears, Talk Talk, Morrissey, Kirsty MacColl, Björk, Tori Amos, Liz Phair, The Cranberries, Suede, Tricky, Goldfrapp, PJ Harvey, Radiohead, Fiona…
