When you think of Christmas songs, it’s probably the likes Mariah Carey, Wham! and Michael Bublé that spring to mind, that vast and unchanging canon…
The prolific psych-rock septet, King Gizzard & The Lizard Wizard, have released yet another album, perhaps proving them to be the hardest working band in…
At this point in their career, there’s not much left for The Cribs to achieve, neither in terms of commercial attainment nor the conquering of…
Across the promotion of their debut self-titled album, Mamalarky, led by former Cherry Glazerr bassist Livvy Bennett, proudly announced that they had had been working…
On her fourth album Covers, British indie artist Marika Hackman both strips down and amplifies various songs about heartbreak. After the success of Any Human…
South-east London band Tiña have released a phenomenal debut album entitled Positive Mental Health Music, through Dan Carey’s consistently excellent Speedy Wunderground label, chalking up…
Catch up with all the best new music released throughout November 2020 with our playlist over at Spotify, or by scrolling below. Happy listening! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0QrG0DG1Zf0bhk8UbxjS0N?si=DhZwG_hSRMCZq1mShudtag
Catch up with all the best new music released throughout October 2020 with our playlist over at Spotify! Happy listening! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/06RkKq4skYnaS7c6BdzUrF?si=2aux5AEfSSip7KZgWDJUFA
Check out our Spotify playlist of all the best new music released throughout September 2020! Happy listening! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2p8Ez24lf3pJjKOhbKezry?si=RMkHFrkTTCmKrMWV6DuFEw
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
On the surface of it, the prospect of a six-piece Australian DJ collective spinning tunes sampling The Osmonds, Boney M and Madonna doesn’t sound like…
It’s been a decade since My Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy graced pop culture with its presence – the record that is still considered by many…
As the new millennium dawned, Atlanta-based hip-hop duo Outkast were in a very unusual position. They had emerged not only as one of the most…
1990s
While much is made of the studio in which an album is recorded, and often rightly so, it’s always worth remembering that less conventionally professional…
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…
1980s
Fairly or unfairly, double albums enjoy rather a checkered reputation, serving as a mental shorthand for mess, contradiction and general excessive indulgence. The River, released…
Critically acclaimed albums that appeal both to the intellectual, cerebral aspects of our humanity as well as the body, the heart and soul are few…
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) has long shouldered the heavy burden of being dubbed the Last Great David Bowie album – or at least until…
1970s
When thought of in the context of a three-year period that had seen the release of three avant-garde albums that have all gained enormous prestige…
Throughout his career, now well into its sixth decade and showing no signs of slowing up in terms of productivity, Neil Young has alternated between…
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…
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…
Although they’ve been active for three decades at this point, it’s one of the great mysteries in alternative music’s history as to why The Brian…
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,…
