Holly Lapsley Fletcher’s four-year absence from recording was definitely more tangible than anyone could have expected, but as she herself stated, she definitely needed to…
R&B superstar Abel Tesfaye, professionally known as The Weeknd,is back with his newest full-length album After Hours, which sees the Ontario native don a new…
We’ve all got that one friend or family member. You know the one - who frequently blurts out outrageous statements that clearly have not been…
With a voice and disposition like Leonard Cohen if he was given to red wine, worn-out suits and late nights in central London dives, Baxter…
For most bands, a collaboration is a one-off endeavour. An opportunity to bring together minds with entirely different approaches and sometimes from entirely different genres,…
After extensively touring their 2017’s Popular Manipulations, Philadelphia-based indie-pop hopefuls The Districts have returned with a fourth full-length album You Know I’m Not Going Anywhere,…
Check out our playlist of all the best new music to be released throughout March 2020 over at Spotify by clicking here, or by scrolling…
The history and evolution of pop is too often told exclusively through frontmen, artists and performers, but this can’t hope to give a complete picture.…
Catch up with all the best new music released throughout February 2020 so far with our playlist over at Spotify! Happy listening! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/0RAZS8mTnYd0LeLWljJsgE?si=9MJfqubiQieKeReY7b0d8g
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
Far from fulfilling 20th century pop culture’s visions of what the turn of the millennium might be like in musical and cultural terms, the year…
The start of the last decade is generally held to have been, at best, a fallow period for guitar-based indie music or, according to naysayers,…
In the face of the commercially lucrative garage-rock revival and the continuing reign of nu-metal that dominated what we were increasingly being compelled to call…
1990s
Britpop is often regarded as one of the last great upheavals in popular music, but it was not a revolution in comparison to previous movements,…
Subsequent decades of records ranging from patience-testingly difficult to merely indifferent have blighted the reputation of Bristolian hip-hop auteur Tricky to the point that it’s…
Although house and techno had been causing moral and cultural shockwaves in Britain when it emerged as a youth phenomenon at the end of the…
1980s
It’s very rare that a band seems to come out of absolutely nowhere to establish a completely new paradigm for thinking about the creation of…
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…
1970s
Robert Johnson selling his soul to the devil at the crossroads. Dave Davies taking a razor blade to his amps for the fuzzy riffs of…
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…
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…
