Following her 2016 debut Nothing’s Real under the name Shura,Alexandra Denton’s sophomore effort forevher is pop music that breathes. Laidback, carefree and light, this album…
Benjamin John Power’s first release as Blanck Mass, his 2011 self-titled album, seemed almost like a deliberate rebuke to the grandiose maximalism of Fuck Buttons,…
In the aftermath of some exposure last month with their endearingly excellent single ‘Magic Of Meghan’, a track that saw acerbic lead singer Florence Shaw…
Singer-songwriter Frank Turner’s latest release, No Man’s Land, has sparked some controversy due to its thematic elements. The title itself is a tongue-in-cheek indication as…
Pioneering the revival of electronic influences in British indie at a point when unspeakably bad post-Arctic Monkeys acts were dominating the national scene, Friendly Fires…
A new album from Sleater-Kinney is always a momentous occasion, but the circumstances surrounding the release of their new ninth album The Center Won’t Hold…
Check out our playlist over at Spotify of all the best new music that's been released so far in August. Foals have released a brand new banger…
The story of an electronic artist founding then nurturing a label is not an unusual one. Normally offering the opportunity to build within a scene…
Check out our playlist of all the best new music released in July 2019 over at Spotify, or scroll below! Happy listening! https://open.spotify.com/playlist/1rSDP4LssfVRr7tM7HwMzJ?si=omnvu8NRSG6Yk3lsqlCkLA
Gigs & Festivals
This Must Be The Place @ Belgrave Music Hall & Headrow House, Saturday-Sunday 24-25th August Returning for its fourth year, local promoters Super Friendz throw…
Indie Banquet XIV @ Hyde Park Book Club, Saturday 17th August There’s other things than just Ed Sheeran at Roundhay going on in Leeds this…
Cultdreams @ Headrow House, Tuesday 13th August Self-identifying as “sad lo-fi punks” and formerly known as Kamikaze Girls until earlier this year, Brighton’s Cultdreams are…
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
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…
Of all of the new genres that Britain threw up during the Nineties, trip-hop was the most quintessentially British sound of them all. Skewed beats…
Before the globe-conquering success of their 1999 album Californication, notorious Californian funk and alternative rock band Red Hot Chili Peppers were in a state of turmoil…
1980s
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…
Three decades after the release of their self-titled debut album, there’s very little left to say about The Stone Roses at this point in history.…
1970s
The punk explosions of the late Seventies were widely imagined as a ‘year zero’ for pop music, a point where artists should rip things up…
Can there possibly be a more famous cult album in existence than Unknown Pleasures? In the four decades since its release in June 1979, it’s…
By the second half of 1978, David Bowie was in a curious point in his career. He’d left Berlin in February of that year, having…
1960s
In contrast to the mythologising that often surrounds rock star deaths, the story of Nick Drake is not a remotely glamorous one. Instead, it is…
The ‘rock opera’ has had a chequered history as it has evolved in the half-century since the archetype was established in 1969. Like its close…
In between the dazzling avant-garde architecture of that 1967 debut album, still rightly celebrated today as one of the greatest albums in history, and the…
As a companion piece to our annual end-of-year albums list published earlier this month, The Student Playlist presents The Top 50 Tracks of 2018. You…
Although it’s been a year pock-marked with political and social uncertainty, that sense of upheaval and tension has resulted in some pretty fine art being…
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…
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…
It doesn’t matter how big you might have been, ten years is a long time to be away. Certainly enough for an entirely new generation…
Dozens of icons of the world of independent and alternative music, as well as many in the world of pop, paid tribute to Scott Walker…
