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Sunlight reflecting off the waves; skate punks with nothing to do; Californian melodies abrisk asunder. Like a batch of raspberry muffins fresh from the stove, surf-punk, otherwise known as …
Having both defined and subsequently relinquished the flag-waving cultural ethos of his youth; otherwise known as the bygone era of Britpop, Liam Gallagher doesn’t really have anything to prove …
Christopher Owens is something else. He’s not exactly seduced by any single steadfast idea of ‘cool’, or for that matter any measure of classic pop or rock n roll …
Some of the great musical works of our time are canonized for associations; cultural importance and gallant artistic ambition, but rarely are they primarily championed for the strength of …
Unlike other such bands of recent times who likewise found themselves riding an avalanche of wellspring adulation and popularity overnight, the NME-hype zeitgeist has yet to be fully wrested …
Brontide work their trade in a tough and often unappreciated field. Purely an instrumental band, their music isn’t typical of the genre they hail from. Rather than being sparse, …
Somewhere, someplace among the rolling meadows of Somerset comes the sound of chaos. Pure and bitter chaos. Thrusting their guitars and vocal chords forth with a polarising conviction that …
Bursting through a fuzzy bubblegum cloud of popularity and adulation with their first full-length effort two years ago, Best Coast have finally set upon delivering their second album, a …
Damon Albarn is the British version of Jack White. His endless indulgence in random musical enterprises seems to suggest that he is still – twenty years on from fronting …
Whilst the likes of Adele and Lily Allen have spearheaded the evolution of a new kind of femme fatale; a convoy of women who fiercely resent the sexually manufactured …
It should only seem fitting that upon venturing within ear-shot of Melbourne’s Festival Hall – a venue famous for housing the Fab Four a half century ago – the …
The Big Pink are perhaps every guitar band’s worst nightmare. Belonging to a select group of electro-pop artists that have recently found success through pragmatic, business like methods of …
In The Guardian’s review of The Maccabees‘ third LP ‘Given to the Wild‘, Alex Petridis entertained a peculiar notion; that despite the simmering success that The Maccabees have had …
It’s been a full decade since the world’s most famous virtual band burst onto the scene at the dawn of the century, born from two like-minded experimentalists and a …
London… the cultural and economic bastion of the western world from which some of the globe’s most coveted artists have emerged and from which some of the most famous …
No-one in their right mind expects Snow Patrol to make a generation-defining album, but we oft-expect them to make a disappointing record either. The alternative Irish outfit have been …