Four days after releasing her debut album, Walsall-born Jorja Smith turned 21 years old. In the space of two years from her SoundCloud solely containing…
Kid Cudi and Kanye West have had a polarizing relationship over the years. Both close collaborators - Kid Cudi is credited at least once on…
As one hot-take review has already succinctly put it, Gruff Rhys is the musical equivalent of an actor who’s just brilliant in everything he’s in,…
Lykke Li has not been named the Queen of Melancholia without a reason. The Swedish pop star has always been excellent at creating a bittersweet…
Take an indie rock band and put a female on vocals and you open the floodgates for comparisons to pretty much any other female-fronted band.…
Super Furry Animals, Can, Sly & The Family Stone, Black Sabbath, Beastie Boys and Ty Segall are just several influences for the eclectic songwriter and…
Football songs, particularly official English ones, are similar to James Bond themes and have a long and chequered history. Most are terrible, some are pretty…
With all the spectacular weather that we’ve had in May, the British festival summer is well and truly under way. Leeds alone has thrown its…
The indie world is in mourning this weekend following the news of the death of Scott Hutchison, the 36 year old lead singer of Scottish…
Gigs & Festivals
It’s the height of summer and the World Cup has started, but if the festival of football isn’t your thing, Leeds still has a pretty…
Prince Omari kicked off our day at Long Division 2018, bringing his cheeky hip-hop, slick beats and smooth flows to the outdoors BBC Introducing… stage…
Club Kuru @ Headrow House, Saturday 9th June London based five-piece Club Kuru dropped their debut album Giving In this year, and they're coming to…
2000s
Influenced: The Lumineers, Laura Marling, The War On Drugs, Real Estate, Beach House, Grizzly Bear, Ben Howard, The Tallest Man On Earth, Mumford & Sons,…
Influenced: Pissed Jeans, Japandroids, Wavves, Ty Segall, Bass Drum Of Death, Cymbals Eat Guitars, Metz, Cloud Nothings, Unknown Mortal Orchestra, Speedy Ortiz, FIDLAR, Moon Duo,…
Influenced: Imogen Heap, Fever Ray, Beak>, Kanye West, Lana Del Rey, Grimes, The Weeknd, Phantogram, Gorillaz, HAELOS Influenced by: Ennio Morricone, Can, Neu!, Kraftwerk, Brian…
1990s
For fans of: Radiohead, Blur, Manic Street Preachers, Super Furry Animals, Placebo, Eels, My Life Story Influenced: The Delgados, The Beta Band, At The Drive-In,…
Influenced: Mogwai, Sigur Rós, Labradford, Nine Inch Nails, Muse, Radiohead, Elbow, Arcade Fire, Explosions In The Sky, Manchester Orchestra, Thee Silver Mt. Zion Memorial Orchestra,…
Influenced: Supergrass, Idlewild, The Libertines, Kaiser Chiefs, The Cribs, Arctic Monkeys, Japandroids, Peace, Gengahr, Blossoms, Rat Boy Influenced by: The Beatles, The Kinks, The Who,…
1980s
Influenced: Nirvana, The Lemonheads, Slint, Pavement, PJ Harvey, Belly, Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Brainiac, Guided By Voices, Weezer, Blur, Ash, The Dismemberment Plan, Grandaddy, The White…
Influenced: Sebadoh, Mudhoney, My Bloody Valentine, Slowdive, Ride, Pixies, Superchunk, Nirvana, Pearl Jam, The Afghan Whigs, Modest Mouse, The White Stripes, The Cribs, Drenge, Kagoule,…
Influenced: Blur, Suede, Manic Street Preachers, PJ Harvey, Jeff Buckley, Belle & Sebastian, Bright Eyes, Ryan Adams, Coldplay, The Libertines, Bloc Party, Arcade Fire, Arctic…
1970s
Influenced: Cerrone, Cabaret Voltaire, Gary Numan, Ultravox, Devo, Talking Heads, Orchestral Manoeuvres In The Dark, New Order, The Human League, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Pet…
Influenced: XTC, The Jam, Joe Jackson, Squeeze, Dexys Midnight Runners, Madness, Billy Bragg, The Pogues, Huey Lewis & The News, The Go-Betweens, The Beautiful South,…
Influenced: D.A.F., Throbbing Gristle, Steve Albini, New Order, Depeche Mode, Soft Cell, The Human League, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Nick Cave & The Bad…
1960s
Influenced: Bee Gees, 10cc, Todd Rundgren, Electric Light Orchestra, Paul Weller, XTC, Television Personalities, The La’s, The Boo Radleys, Super Furry Animals, of Montreal, Neutral…
Influenced: The Stooges, David Bowie, Roxy Music, Can, The Modern Lovers, Patti Smith, Television, Suicide, The Fall, Joy Division, Young Marble Giants, Swell Maps, Swans,…
Influenced: Jimi Hendrix, David Bowie, Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers, E.L.O., The Police, Prince, XTC, Pixies, The Stone Roses, Blur, Oasis, Neutral Milk Hotel,…
Revisiting any period in popular music is always interesting, insofar as one’s memories of it change and evolve as time passes and the present gets…
When it came to writing this piece, the scale of the task became immediately apparent; how do you fit a century of jazz music into…
The medium of songwriting allows for expressive, concentrated statements of brilliance. In the span of (typically) just about three and a half minutes, talented artists…
Influenced: The Pop Group, The Raincoats, Talulah Gosh, Bow Wow Wow, The Runaways, Sonic Youth, The Go-Go’s, Fugazi, Neneh Cherry, The Breeders, Björk, PJ Harvey,…
Influenced: The Dandy Warhols, Muse, Stereophonics, The Strokes, The Libertines, Razorlight, The Futureheads, The Kooks, Two Door Cinema Club, Tribes, Peace, The 1975, Blossoms, Gengahr…
Influenced: The Auteurs, Black Box Recorder, Dubstar, The Cardigans, Elastica, Garbage, Moby, The Avalanches, Sophie Ellis-Bextor, Goldfrapp, Ladytron, Annie, The Go! Team, Warm Digits, Air…
