For a debut album, Greentea Peng’s MAN MADE has had an enormous amount of hype attached to it. Aria Wells has been in the NME,…
Unusually for a band of such impeccable credentials with both fans and music writers, Sleater-Kinney find themselves in the position of needing to recoup some…
It would be too simplistic to characterise Michelle Zauner’s latest Japanese Breakfast album as merely ‘going pop’, as if that were a case of just…
As the lead singer of perennially undervalued Britpop anarchists Super Furry Animals, Gruff Rhys has always sought to put his own gentle but idiosyncratic twists…
Hazy synth swells and sickly-sweet melodies ooze from Japanese four-piece CHAI’s third album release WINK, an album that unapologetically promotes fun and self-love with every…
It seems that 2021 is the year of big, independently released British rock albums. There’s already been Black Country, New Road, Squid and even Shame…
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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
Created with a gargantuan effort to blend the more acoustic sound of For Emma, Forever Ago with Justin Vernon’s more intriguing electronic inclinations and even…
When two tracks by The Shins’ debut album Oh, Inverted Worldappeared on the soundtrack to 2004 film Garden State - a movie proudly espousing liberal…
Arriving as it did so shortly after the revolutionary shock of Kid A that left rock critics and cultural commentators divided as well as Radiohead’s…
1990s
Although he had spearheaded one of hip-hop’s most influential groups as a member of Ultramagnetic MCs – their 1988 debut Critical Beatdown is one of…
In the summer of 1996, at the height of Cool Britannia, a remix of a little-known minimalist house single that had stalled well outside the…
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…
1980s
At the turn of the Eighties, despite having established a perfectly successful career in commercial terms, Grace Jones was not the towering, influential pop genius…
While they had spent the previous half-decade ahead of the pack with their futurist electronic symphonies – the unstoppable run of albums from Autobahn to…
In 1981, as the increasingly diluted New Romantic scene dominated the charts to symbolically mark the final extinguishing of punk’s flame, an album with absolutely…
1970s
For anybody who thinks that the Motown label was a flawless hit-generating machine that churned out classic after classic, consider the reception that greeted Marvin…
As the Sixties ended, The Rolling Stones found themselves at a crucial moment of change in their career. Their reputation and cultural power up until…
San Francisco at the turn of the Seventies has always been synonymous with psychedelia. The lysergically enhanced rock jams emerging out of the city’s Haight-Ashbury…
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…
More than any other year in living memory, music has felt incredibly important in 2020. Not just as a structural means for idling away lockdown…
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,…
If the universe was a fair place – and for various reasons, let’s face it, it isn’t – then Echo & The Bunnymen would have…
When the Manic Street Preachers began their career on the cusp of the 1990s, they conceived of themselves as a reaction, a contemptible sneer against…
As a presence and influence in popular music, Nick Cave is an institution easily worthy of being mentioned in the same breath with the likes…
