New Music Interview: Charlie And The Villas
The big burning ball in the sky looks like it’ll be a rarity at The Great Escape Festival, but as soon as we do catch a glint of the summer…
New Music Spotlight: YOWL ‘My Headache Likes To Speak’
Hot on the heels of their brilliant EP ‘Before The Sleep Sets In’, YOWL are back with another rip-roaring nugget of noir-ish garage rock on new London label Big Score.…
New Music Spotlight: Swimming Tapes ‘Queen’s Parade’
Swimming Tapes are back with a dazzling new cut – and it’s probably the best thing they’ve put out to date. Shimmering, sun-tinged, but laced with sadness, ‘Queen’s Parade’ is…
New Music Spotlight: Artificial Pleasure ‘Like Never Before’
We were full-on obsessed with a band called Night Engine in 2012, and after witnessing them channel ‘Fame’-era David Bowie in milestone London venues like The Social and The Borderline,…
New Music Interview: Silver Rose
Silver Rose – the nom de plume singer-songwriter Carla Sariñana – brings the best of supercharged shoegaze to the world, with her latest EP gaining notable support from Noisey, Rolling Stone and Clash. Having…
New Music Spotlight: SueLily ‘ORBIT’
There is a shed-load of fresh, unfiltered talent emerging from south London at the moment, and newcomer SueLily is the most recent to pop up on our radar. With a…
New Music Spotlight: Michl ‘Waste?’
The seductive opener to ‘Waste?‘ does well to throw listeners off the scent that this is something throwaway. Pulsing synths give ‘Michl‘s style a liquid quality; a devastating mix of…
Live Music Review: Strong Asian Mothers at Kamio in London on 27.04.17
What does a remix of ‘Fat Bottomed Girls’, a basement in East London and a cardboard Fearne Cotton face mask have in common? A fast rising trio named Strong Asian…
Live Music Review: Lost In The Manor vs Hidden Herd at The Finsbury in London on 21.04.17
It’s the second to last Friday of the month and as the day becomes darkness, the excitement begins to bubble in anticipation of the evening ahead. Tonight, our trip north…