Category: Best Of
Our ‘Best of 2023′ series wraps up today with 20 standout music videos of artists featured on Live4ever’s pages during the past year.
Our publisher Paul Bachmann, who regularly served on Emmy judging panels for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ special effects and camera categories, has been…
It’s been another hectic 12 months of club gigs, arena shows and festivals for Live4ever’s lead photographer
Gary Mather, when rising stars, rock legends and some of music’s biggest names have been showcased through a collection of world class photography.
At year’s end, Gary has been going back over…
So, here we are again. Another year ends and so, as sure as night follows day, another year-end list.
But this is no ordinary year-end list. It’s a year-end list by your favourite music website compiling the best songs of another packed 12 months and, as such, demands your respect…
20: Grian Chatten – Fairlies
19: DAMEFRISØR – D.O.D
18: Revival Season – Chop
17: Mitski – Bug Like An Angel
16: Floating Points – Birth4000
15: Baby Queen – We Can Be Anything
14: Treeboy & Arc – Retirement
13: SCALER – NEW SYMBOLS
12: Bill Ryder-Jones – This…
20: Lol Tolhurst x Budgie x Jacknife Lee – Los Angeles
Los Angeles is an immersive, dystopian fever dream of an album. Obviously the percussion is great, but the trio have pooled together their contacts for a fearsome supporting cast of collaborators and singers. Some are better known than others,
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Our 2022 retrospective series ends today with 20 standout music videos of artists featured on Live4ever’s pages during the past year.
Our publisher Paul Bachmann, who regularly served on Emmy judging panels for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ special effects and camera categories, has been looking out…
2022. As the planet stumbled from one phase of its omni-crisis to another it would’ve been easy to dismiss music – and art in general – as somehow less relevant than ever. After all, there were plenty more important things to…
The Soup Kitchen has no light, no photography pit and no restrictions so if the right band are in there it can be a right sweaty mosh, and Surfbort were no exception. Knowing Dani’s reputation it wasn’t too long before she hit the crowd and I think I got some
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Angel Olsen by Angela Ricciardi
Do you want to know something scary? We’re more than a quarter of the way through this decade.
And we can all agree it’s been a belter so far. As the West…
20/ Fontaines D.C. – Roman Holiday
19/ Julia Jacklin – Lydia Wears A Cross
18/ Yeah Yeah Yeahs – Spitting Off The Edge Of The World
17/ David Holmes – It’s Over, If We Run Out Of Love
16/ Soul Glo – ‘Jump!! (Or Get Jumped!!!)((by the future))’
15/ Future
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Andy Bell performing with Ride in Bristol on April 24th, 2022 (Photo: Alessandro Gianferrara for Live4ever)
Follow this link for Andy Bell’s ‘Flicker’ and Live4ever’s Best Albums Of 2022 in full.
Despite today’s world of pro-tools, curated playlists and music camps (no, we didn’t know they were a thing either…
20/ Arctic Monkeys – The Car
Largely (though not entirely) gone are the eerie, seemingly discordant synths and piano, in come the strings. While lesser acts often add strings to try and corner the listener into Feeling Some Emotions, Turner et al are cleverer and classier than that. Rather than
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10: Zola Jesus – Arkhon
“Arkhon is about things which carry weight, an attempt to address through music states of heart and mind that are sometimes material to more than just a single life.”
“For Nika Danilova to get there meant taking Zola Jesus to a place formerly uncharted, one…
Our 2021 retrospective series ends today with 20 of the best music videos featured on Live4ever’s pages during the past 12 months.
Our publisher and founder Paul Bachmann, who regularly served on Emmy judging panels for the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences’ special effects and camera categories, has…
David Balfe, For Those I Love by Faolán Carey
There was never much chance that the year which followed the strangest one in modern history was going to be anything more than overhung by it; the extended space just gave us…
There was never much chance that the year which followed the strangest one in modern history was going to be anything more than overhung by it; the extended space just gave us a little more mental license in which to consider whether a stray comet might just be the best…
