by John Murphy
Leigh Franklin’s life story could almost be subtitled ‘paying your dues’. Hailing from Christchurch in New Zealand, she’s spent the last 15 years or so…
by Matt Langham
The pre-gig queue of unfortunates busted by the Met’s finest outside the Brixton Academy augured oddly well for Ben Gibbard and Jimmy Tamborello. The Postal...
by Kate Bennett
Glasgow’s The Pastels were one of the better bands to emerge from the Scottish indie-pop scene of the 1980s and the NME’s now-legendary C86 mixtape...
by Matt Langham
Artistic intent is notoriously difficult to pin down, yet the first line of Laura Marling’s new record is a clear statement. Signifying a continuing personal...
by David Welsh
Glaswegian three-piece Sparrow And The Workshop struck gold with their first two albums, 2010′s Crystals Fall and its 2011 follow-up Spitting Daggers (largely, in all...
by Martyn Young
Out of all the increasingly prolific and impressive vanguard of Montreal based musicians, the curious character of Sean Nicholas Savage is perhaps the most fascinating....
by Kate Bennett
Toronto’s indie-rock darlings Hooded Fang may have only released their UK debut LP Tosta Mista a little over a year ago, but here they are,...
by Jordan Mainzer
With 2007’s Ire Works, 2010’s Option Paralysis, and now 2013’s One Of Us Is The Killer, New Jersey mathcore band The Dillinger Escape Plan have...
by Andy Baber
The journey Shiny Toy Guns have been on since the release of their debut album We Are Pilots in 2006 has not been a smooth...
by Christopher Monk
Mount Kimbie have been described as a ‘post-dubstep’ outfit, a term which – despite sounding like the worst kind of music journalese – is actually...
by Andy Baber
It’s almost three years since Crystal Fighters released their debut album, Star Of Love, to a good, if somewhat mixed, reception. While their unique style...
by Andy Baber
Just over a year since they burst onto the scene with their brilliant debut album, Camden four-piece Tribes are back with their second album, Wish...
by Andy Baber
As you would expect for a band led by a film star, 30 Seconds To Mars are not a band to do things by halves...
by Martin Headon
“STILL FIGHTING THE PUNK ROCK WAR,” proclaims the Goldblade website in block capitals. Like Japanese soldiers, hiding out in the jungle with straggly hair and...
by Sam Shepherd
Conceptually, Excavation follows directly on from the end of The Haxan Cloak’s eponymous album. Whist Bobby Krlic’s debut album concerned the last days and hours...
by Sam Shepherd
Part of the joy of Boats is their somewhat absurdist nature. Band leader and vocalist Mat Klachefsky has a habit of using surreal imagery in...
by Chris Saunders
The opening track of this, Emma Niblett’s sixth album It’s Up To Emma is about hunting down someone who stole your other half, and shooting...
