It’s perhaps not surprising to see a new Kevin Morby album after his last one, particularly after the tour for 2019’s ambitious Oh My God…
This is far from the first time that a primarily rock band, Foals in particular, have released an exclusive release of remixes and reworks. Just…
Active since 2006, Future Islands have continued to churn out fabulous songs and magnificent synth filled projects and have had a great run in the…
On their debut album, Working Men’s Club want you to know they’re a different band to the one that burst onto the scene barely a…
Róisín Machine, thefifth studio album from Irish singer-songwriter, producer and former Moloko frontwoman Róisín Murphy, is an emotional journey through disco and house, standing out…
Hailing from the heather-adorned moors of Mossley, north of Manchester, Cabbage are creators of the weird and wild psych-punk sluice that is Amanita Pantherina. As…
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
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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
As we get further and further away from the date of its arrival, it gets harder to appreciate just how divisive the release of Kid…
Albums whose natures are difficult to know are not often the ones that music fans hold up as the greatest, the ones they speak about…
It’s hard to remember a time when Arcade Fire weren’t a top-tier, festival headlining act. Right from their flawless first album Funeral, released quietly in…
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
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…
When considering Let It Be, the final album that The Beatles released in chronological terms but not the last music they created together, it’s hard…
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,…
