Once appealing to the pop-punk crowd with their first two records Meet Me Halfway, At Least and Fools And Worthless Liars, Norfolk-based rock band Deaf…
Operating in the relative cultural hinterland of Hobart, Tasmania in the pre-internet Nineties, Little Ugly Girls are a band that seem to have somehow slipped…
You can never predict what will come out of a Spider Bags album. Their unusual and off-kilter fusion of punk and indie-rock with country and…
Manchester-based veterans James have escaped the fate of many of their baggy and Britpop contemporaries by hitting one of the richest veins of form in…
British rave veterans Underworld and legendary punk figurehead Iggy Pop might not be the most obvious musical bedfellows on the surface of it, you might…
Slick grooves, casual intimacy, and the vibe of a cool summer evening breeze seem to come as effortlessly to the collective of musicians known as…
Summer time! Uni has finished, and it’s time to head back home for a couple of months and see your old friends. Weeks of hanging…
To summarise July 2018, then – it’s too disgustingly hot to even think of doing anything; Brexit now means food riots; and football’s staying out…
Having been established half a century ago in 1968, the story of Trojan Records is integral to one of the most vivid and fondly remembered…
Gigs & Festivals
KT Tunstall @ Millennium Square, Saturday 11th August Representing a bit of a blast from the past in 2018, KT Tunstall is a Scottish singer-songwriter with a…
The gig calendar may be a little sparser than usual in the height of summer, what with festivals and all, but there’s a decent handful…
Queen Kwong @ Brudenell Social Club, Sunday 29th July Queen Kwong, a.k.a. Carré Callaway, is an American indie rock artist who landed on the music…
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
Influenced: Radiohead, Weezer, Afghan Whigs, The Lemonheads, Silversun Pickups, Filter, Garbage, Foo Fighters, Eels, Dandy Warhols, Lush, Sparklehorse, Death Cab For Cutie, Ash, Placebo, Feeder,…
Influenced: Low, Eels, Built To Spill, Modest Mouse, Death Cab For Cutie, Wilco, Mercury Rev, The Flaming Lips, Bonnie ‘Prince’ Billy, Cat Power, Bill Callahan…
Ironically, despite it feeling so much like the start of a new era both in pop and her own career, Debut was not the first…
1980s
Influenced: Rage Against The Machine, MC Eiht, Snoop Dogg, Mobb Deep, House Of Pain, Cypress Hill, Nas, 2Pac, Notorious B.I.G., Wu-Tang Clan, Jay-Z, Outkast, Eminem,…
Influenced: A Tribe Called Quest, De La Soul, Ice Cube, Wu-Tang Clan, Rage Against The Machine, The Disposable Heroes Of Hiphoprisy, The Pharcyde, Gang Starr,…
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…
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: Megadeth, Rage Against The Machine, Alice In Chains, Carcass, Pantera, Sepultura, Ministry, Killswitch Engaged, System Of A Down, Slipknot Influenced by: The Stooges, Led…
Influenced: Radiohead, Animal Collective, Madonna, Moloko, Broadcast, Sigur Rós, The Knife, M.I.A., Goldfrapp, Portishead, Dirty Projectors, Robyn, Bat For Lashes, Fever Ray, Joanna Newsom, Regina…
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,…
