Wavves @ Tufnell Park Dome, London

It’s exactly 10 years since Nathan Williams founded the surf-punk Wavves in San Diego. In celebration, their first, eponymous album has just been re-released as...

Microdisney @ Barbican, London

Cathal Coughlan and Sean O’Hagan may be better known for their more recent work in leading The Fatima Mansions and The High Llamas respectively, but...

Thom Yorke @ Roundhouse, London

The evening opens with Interference in which the song’s narrator dejectedly proclaims “I don’t have the right / to interfere”. But Thom Yorke has just...

The The @ Brixton Academy, London

It’s understandable that less than a week after the passing of his beloved father that Matt Johnson, the guiding force of The The, would need...

Courtney Barnett @ Roundhouse, London

The most common complaint in live music is that artists too freely indulge in their new material. Tonight’s Courtney Barnett gig puts the objection to...

LUMP @ Oslo, London

Here’s a curveball. In amongst the deluge of new release announcements earlier this year lurked a very curious revelation: there was to be a new...

Festival Review: Field Day 2018

Looking back, we’ve had soggy Field Days, sunny Field Days and queues-as-far-as-the-eyes-can-see Field Days. But this year’s 12th outing was set to be the first...

Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds @ Victoria Park, London

‘Behind every great man, there is a great woman,’ goes the cliche: in the case of the final night of the first All Points East...

The Breeders @ Roundhouse, London

The Breeders are back. The influential US indie-rockers have had their fair share of ups and downs in a spasmodically brilliant career over the last...

Deerhunter @ Albert Hall, Manchester

Set in the gorgeous Manchester Albert Hall, the Strange Waves Festival offered fans a reasonably priced ticket (with unreserved seating or standing options) to see...

Panel: All Points East’s inaugural London weekend

The behemoth of a festival that is All Points East landed in Hackney’s Victoria Park to kick off London’s 2018 festival season with big-name signings...

Field Music @ Barbican, London

As Field Music (and their ‘Open Here’ orchestra comprising strings, brass, flute and percussion) take to the Barbican stage tonight the set up features several...

Erland Cooper @ St Pancras Old Church, London

When did you last attend a gig at a bird colony? A serious question – and one on which members of this particular audience will...

Sparks @ Forum, London

It’s an hour before Sparks are even meant to hit the stage and from the balcony a mist can be seen swirling around the hall....

Screaming Females @ Oslo, London

For years now people have been proclaiming the ‘Death of Rock’, and the grisly demise of the guitar as the righteous weapon of pop culture,...

Susanne Sundfør @ Barbican, London

Susanne Sundfør’s starring role year’s at last summer’s Songs Of Scott Walker Prom brought her, and particularly her show-stopping voice, to a wider audience. Tonight’s...

Kronos Quartet & Trio Da Kali @ Barbican, London

Kronos Quartet have now been in existence for over 40 years. In that time they’ve established themselves as one of the world’s premier string quartets,...

Japanese Breakfast @ Islington Assembly Hall, London

Japanese Breakfast is full of teeny tiny contradictions – little contrary moments of lightness and dark that make their two solo records endlessly listenable and...

Ex Eye @ Milton Court, London

Max Richter and artist Yulia Mahr’s Sound and Visions weekend is one of scope. From Jlin’s progressive electronics to Kaitlyn Aurelia Smith’s earthy modular creations...

Max Richter @ Barbican, London

The Barbican’s Sounds & Visions weekend promised “a journey into music, image and their meeting points in today’s culture”, with the opening event featuring co-curator...