It’s been just under five years since London-born multi-instrumentalist and producer Georgia Barnes, known simply as Georgia, released her self-titled debut album, recording and producing…
The steady but modest rise of The Big Moon has been one of the most heartening success stories of the last few years, and one…
A prominent figure in the explosion of hard hitting, bassy new wave sounds that having been coming out of Florida the past three years or…
Initially garnering attention through a high amount of beat tape output and widespread touring of Canada and America, which included a DJ spot on Madonna’s…
A musical shapeshifter whose nearly three decade-long career has seen him swerve from indie/hip-hop hybrids to sultry R&B, indulgent funk and heartbreaking alt-folk, Beck arrives…
Any band can decide upon a wacky name, but once you’ve captured the attention of a potential listener you need to keep ‘em hooked with…
A new decade has begun, and although the immediate future may look bleak, fortunately the music scene has thrown up a great deal of quality…
Check out our Spotify playlist of all the best new music released throughout November 2019 by scrolling below! Happy listening! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/6iLUpeazePuY0pHoyeTV1g?si=UxA2vWVyQRu3_ePm68j9xw
Founded in the unassuming surroundings of the university town of Chapel Hill in North Carolina in 1989, Merge Records has proved to be one of…
Gigs & Festivals
Beak>Ender @ Brudenell Social Club, Saturday 7th – Sunday 8th December Curated and headlined by Beak>, a project founded by Portishead founder Geoff Barrow, this…
Pizzagirl @ Hyde Park Book Club, Saturday 30th November 21 year old Liverpudlian songwriter Liam Brown brings his Pizzagirl alter-ego to the Hyde Park Book…
Sigrid @ O2 Academy Leeds, Saturday 23rd November Carrying the excellence of her break-out single ‘Strangers’ from last year into 2019 with the release of…
2000s
Looking back on the decade that’s passed since the quiet release of The xx’s debut album, it’s slightly strange to think of xx as a…
Big voice, big presence and big sound – the grandeur of Florence Welch and her Machine is something anyone who’s ever had a glimpse of…
It was about Dirty Projectors’ incredible breakout album Bitte Orca that Time Magazine’s Josh Tyrangiel birthed the immortal critical phrase “making the critic’s job undoable”…
1990s
Weeks before the turn of the 21st century, L.A. revolutionaries Rage Against The Machine unleashed a new album, reminding the world once again of the…
There’s a line in ‘How Fucking Romantic’, halfway through the first disc in The Magnetic Fields’ massive triple-album 69 Love Songs, in which Dudley Klute,…
Who could’ve thought that an album that peaked well outside the Top 100 in the charts upon its release, regardless of the ‘underground’ following its…
1980s
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…
Since their inception in the late ‘70s in the wake of punk, Robert Smith and the rotating cast of The Cure have become a globally…
1970s
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…
Given their reputation as British punk’s most creative and firebrand outfit, The Clash’s status as one of the canonical all-time great bands seems like it…
40 years on from its release, The Wall remains one of the most celebrated concept albums of all time, as well as one of history’s…
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…
Usually, when summarising the career of an artist in the wake of tragedy, there is a formality to the style, one filled with clichés like…
Lennon and McCartney; Morrissey and Marr; the Gallagher brothers. Some of the most iconic pop music ever made has been predicated by immense partnerships. Looking…
It’s been almost two decades since Pavement were active in any meaningful way, the group’s component parts quietly parting ways in the pursuit of solo…
