Category: Best Of
After taking in Live4ever’s albums of the year, click here to read much more on why our number one is so prescient for 2020.
20: Working Men’s Club – Working Men’s Club
“At times, they’re just bloody lovely, the glistery Madchester frescoes of Outside and Tomorrow for all the world…
Nearly halfway there people. Nearly halfway through the annus horribilis to end all anni horribiles (googled the plural).
At least for music fans, during the utter s**tstorm that is 2020, artists have been ploughing through isolation, financial turmoil and postponed dates to deliver another selection box of unmissable albums to…
Our 2019 retrospective series ends today with the countdown of Live4ever’s 20 favourite music videos featured on these pages during the past 12 months.
Our publisher and Primetime Emmy Award (Visual Effects) winning founder
Paul Bachmann has been looking out especially for cinematography, visuals, production value, editing, concept and adaption.…
Working Men’s Club playing YES in Manchester (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
If you were to compare the singles Bad Blood and Teeth you would assume they came at different points in their band’s career.
But they are the early offerings which demonstrate how much Working Men’s Club have evolved over…
On our
Best Albums list, 2019 brought us future classics from Fontaines D.C., Dave, The Murder Capital, FEET, slowthai and black midi to name just a few. Those and plenty more feature too on our favourite tracks of the year.
Picked out by editor
David Smith from the hundreds…
When
Fontaines D.C. first made it on to Live4ever’s
Best Of… lists in 2017, something special was already brewing.
Hurricane Laughter had begun the charge for what are now known as the Darklands Sessions, the backbone of a subsequent debut album which is our number one of 2019.
Sandwiched…
Idles playing Brooklyn Steel on May 10th, 2019 (Paul Bachmann / Live4ever)
It’s the summer Bank Holiday in the UK today, and with mighty fine weather greeting it for once here’s part two of a playlist which might just add to the soundtrack for today’s activities.
50 of the best…
William McCarthy at Leeds Stylus on Augustines’ farewell UK tour (Gary Mather for Live4ever)
It’s the summer Bank Holiday in the UK today, and with mighty fine weather greeting it for once here we’ve got part one of a playlist which might just add to the soundtrack for today’s activities.…
Our 2018 retrospective series ends today with the countdown of Live4ever’s 20 favourite music videos featured on these pages during the past 12 months.
Our publisher and Primetime Emmy Award (Visual Effects) winning founder
Paul Bachmann has been looking out especially for cinematography, visuals, production value, editing, concept and adaption.…
Idles in Brooklyn during their Joy As An Act Of Resistance world tour (Paul Bachmann / Live4ever)
During 2018, bravery has come in many forms.
Upon the centenary of the Armistice, it was there on the faces of those experiencing the horrors of the Western Front during World War One,…
After our favourite tracks of 2018 were picked last week, here Live4ever presents the best albums to have been featured and reviewed on these pages during the last twelve months. From instant classic debuts to fascinating artist evolution, we conclude with a familiar name picking up another hugely deserved top…
Fontaines D.C. post-show at the Kentish Town Forum, London (Sam Huddleston / Live4ever)
“The whole tour has been great. There has been so many surprises along the way, we weren’t expecting such a big reception in places like Birmingham, but that was mad and Glasgow was nearly as mad as…
Live4ever’s Best Of 2018 series starts today with our editor
Dave Smith picking out 20 of his favourite tracks from the hundreds to have been highlighted on these pages through reviews, Tracks Of The Week, Presents interviews and video features during the course of another hectic year.
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The Boxer Rebellion interview by Live4ever in New York (Photo: Paul Bachmann)
After nearly two decades in the music industry, The Boxer Rebellion have experienced pretty much everything it has to offer.
Reflecting on the almost universally positive reception earned by their most recent album Ghost Alive, about to feature…
Live4ever’s 2017 retrospective concludes today with the Albums, with the ‘warmth, joy and emotion’ of The Barr Brothers, Prisoner’s ‘raw earthy, almost live feel’, ‘one of Britain’s most articulate, dexterous bands’, Lotta Sea Lice – ‘an album made of a genuine friendship’, and much more included in this year’s rundown.…