The weird and wonderful Pom Poko released their eclectic debut Birthday just under two years ago back in early 2019. It was an absolute feast…
Even though it’s their second album, Shame’s Drunk Tank Pink reeks of debut. This isn’t intended as an insult, or as a way of putting…
With each passing year, Sleaford Mods’ artistry seems ever more familiar and reliable yet more urgent, more needed than ever before. As long as the…
Despite giving us their magnum opus earlier in 2020 in the form of Spook The Herd and getting nominated for the Mercury Prize, Lanterns On…
We Will Always Love You feels like an apt name for an Avalanches record; no matter what the duo release, the music world will stop and…
Perhaps deliberately designed to deflect the long-standing impression that Dirty Projectors is the exclusive artistic vehicle for David Longstreth, with whatever musicians happen to be…
Catch up with all the best new music released throughout January 2021 with our Spotify playlist. Happy listening! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/2XspJO8NbQRLwoquxBUqwR?si=e3ISx60WTqS05fkLubnt6Q
Some record labels are absolutely synonymous with not only a genre of music, but a very specific variant thereof. Chess Records goes hand in hand…
Catch up with all of the best new music released throughout December 2020 with our Spotify playlist! Happy listening! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/5uBDVXeAC9ZwV4EhhFMOs1?si=kToTkdtTSbCPEukrok0P0g
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
The clumsily titled umbrella term ‘world music’ has always been viewed as a bit of a dirty word in rock criticism, tending to be deployed…
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…
1970s
It was the curse of a number of British folk artists that they would go unappreciated in their time, sometimes within their own circles as…
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…
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…
More than any other year in living memory, music has felt incredibly important in 2020. Not just as a structural means for idling away lockdown…
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,…
As a presence and influence in popular music, Nick Cave is an institution easily worthy of being mentioned in the same breath with the likes…
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…
