Long Beach blues rockers Cold War Kids release their fourth album at somewhat of a career crossroads.
Early industry buzz gathered pace in 2006 with the unveiling of debut album ‘Robbers & Cowards‘; containing a soulful, guttural blues tinged collection of tracks which announced the band as worthy White Stripes-era …
Bastille are named in homage to Bastille Day – the French National holiday celebrating the storming of Bastille prison in Paris on 14 July 1789 as a symbolic moment during the French Revolution, at a time which saw the oppressed peoples of the nation rise up against an autocratic government.…
When Oasis’ manager stated that the band, ‘Does not exist anymore’, after an altercation between the Gallagher brothers in the bowels of a Parisian music festival in the summer of 2009, some feared the final nail in the coffin for a brand of contemporary rock & roll music which harks …
Fast approaching their twentieth year since inception way back in 1995 during a Britpop dominated UK music scene, seasoned alt-rockers Biffy Clyro are looking to raise the bar on sixth studio record and double album ‘Opposites‘.
Approaching a double sided record is a tentative beast for bands and fans alike; …
The Joy Formidable have come a long way since their formation in a quiet North Walian market town back in 2007.
After several years of extensive touring and intermittent releases of infectious shoegaze-pop gems in the form of early singles ‘Austere‘ and ‘Cradle‘, the band finally …
There’s plenty of new talent out there to get excited about this year. The likes of Palma Violets, Haim, Tom Odell and Savages have already caused a gaggle of eager music publications to pin their colours firmly to the mast, and should at least spark the usual ‘Next Big Thing’/’Hyped …
Now you’ve been through our extensive Essential Listening 2012 series, which includes all our top choices from a past twelve months of albums, gigs and tracks, here some of our frankly super talented band of writers pick out their own favourite album of 2012, each making a convincing argument for …
There is a certain sense of trepidation that greets television and radio news broadcasts in current times, including the now habitually pessimistic rhetoric from leading politicians that public spending cuts are a necessary part of modern life on our journey to economic recovery.
Daniel Pearson, a musician from the humblest …
It’s an unnerving realisation for any alternative music fan that followed the New York garage rock revival scene, incorporating artists such as The Strokes and the Yeah Yeah Yeahs in the early noughties, to discover that Interpol, a band who channelled the darker side of the city in the …
Having safely navigated the devastating torrent of Hurricane Sandy at the back end of October, Long Island-based The Last Internationale are gearing up to release a superstorm of their own in the shape of their blues drenched ‘New York, I Do Mind Dying‘ EP.
The band released …
With the grim outlook of post recession Britain leaving in its wake a generation of disenchanted souls balking at the prospect of working until well into their elderly years, barely having enough money to fund a regular intake of caffeine, let alone a car and mortgage enabling a fleeing from …
Nostalgia sifted through a cold, windswept Blackpool night as Jack White returned as a solo artist to the Empress Ballroom, an iconic venue in the history of The White Stripes’, being the chosen location for their Under Blackpool Lights DVD recording back in 2004.
White clearly felt moved enough to …
Newcastle upon Tyne is often vastly underrated for a music scene which has provided us with sixties gritty blues phenomenon The Animals, while the abrasive alt-punk of Maximo Park put the city back on the map during the mid-Noughties indie peak, reminding us that the Geordies should be recognised for …
When Bob Dylan infamously struck his first electrified chords to a public audience back at the 1965 Newport Folk Festival to signify his transition from cult folk hero to eventual folk rock legend, few would have dared believe the moment would resonate yet louder on a 21st century musical landscape …