In their first release since 2017’s awkward transitional album A Fever Dream, Everything Everything fall short in their endeavours to forge mountainous pop music. Re-Animator,…
With 15 previous albums under their belt, not including the numerous collaborations they have taken part in over the last ten years or so, The…
The problematic issues surrounding guitar bands of years gone by announcing reformations and releasing new music after several years, if not decades, strangely don’t seem…
The fact that Declan McKenna’s debut record, What Do You Think About The Car? was written and recorded at the tender age of just 17…
A vehicle for the ever-welcome and much needed voice of Jarvis Cocker, JARV IS… is a curious live-cum-studio project hastily assembled three years ago off…
The first words that Bill Callahan sings on his latest album Gold Record, in that sturdy yet silky baritone that’s long since become such a…
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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Once you expand your conception and understanding of popular music to include soundtracks, it immediately becomes clear that Ennio Morricone, the much-revered Italian composer who…
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
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…
Released in the summer of 2000 to only minor commercial success but avalanches of critical acclaim, The Moon & Antarctica played a key role in…
During the Nineties, a significant trend in popular culture fixated on the upcoming turn of the millennium, an anxious and often paranoid impulse that produced…
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
Scary Monsters (And Super Creeps) has long shouldered the heavy burden of being dubbed the Last Great David Bowie album – or at least until…
If there’s any classic album that illustrates the massive differences between the British and American experiences of punk and the similarly divergent paths they took,…
The story of Joy Division is such an oft-told one by 2020 that it’s amazing that anybody attempts to write about them at all anymore.…
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,…
