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With Mad Professor at the helm, Django Django offer a refreshing new look at their self-titled debut album.

Roll back a decade and things seemed to be kind of doing OK. Post the indie landfill time of the noughties, a clutch of bands like alt-J, Metronomy and Everything Everything…

Fans who thought the previous Kasabian album sounded like the inmates running the Pauper Asylum are in for a serious shock therapy session; new single ‘Switchblade Smiles‘ is possibly the most bonkers thing they’ve ever done. Related news: Review: U2 live at The Sphere, Las Vegas Review: IDLES …

It really is hard to believe that Irish rock’n’roll bandits The Minutes have been making a racket for most of the past decade considering how their long overdue debut came to be. In the span of five hysteric days the three Dubliners fried twelve tracks barely caged by thirty five…

From the heart of County Armagh, Northern Ireland charges a hungry pack of rock brutes, carving trails of noise and youthful carnage wherever their hunts lead them. Collectively they go by Gascan Ruckus and having announced their arrival below the Irish radar last year with their EP “The Governor” they’re…

Emerging from a supposedly restless Brighton scene are Goodluck Jonathan, surrounded by field of hushed anticipation. This obviously begs the question of whether GJ were a well-kept secret really worth keeping. Their inventive and shifty brand of mathematical alternative certainly leaves an imprint but it is one of commotion as…

Small But Massive… Read it again. That’s Glasgowbury. Not to be confused with Michael Eavis’ Worthy Farm extravaganza – this is Glasgowbury, and it’s got nothing to do with anything in Scotland. Glasgowbury is Northern Ireland’s premier independent festival which showcases almost universally home-grown talent. As the brainchild of Irish…

Coming from the same school of nu-folk/soul artists such as Adele, Kate Nash and Laura Marling, Peggy Sue have a lot to live up to. Formerly known as ‘Peggy Sue and The Pirates, a more quirkier name you have to agree, the band have been around the scene for a…

Glorious, joyous and frivolous are just three simple words I can think of to describe, what some critics are calling, the perfect pop album. Topic of discussion is the wonderful ‘Odd Blood’ by Yeasayer. Think back to those awkward moments when you were a teenager and life was just full…

13/11/2009 Anyone who says “grunge is dead” is wrong on general principle. Alice In Chains demonstrated exactly why tonight at the O2 Academy in Birmingham. Taking their first record in fourteen years on the road, tragically devoid of their late frontman Layne Staley, the Seattle survivors made their second stop…

Biffy Clyro After a year of relative quiet from Scottish rock trio Biffy Clyro following last summers stopgap single ‘Mountains’, Biffy’s new single ‘That Golden Rule’ spearheads their hugely anticipated fifth album, ‘Only Revolutions’, and it doesn’t disappoint. Related news: Review: Chemtrails – The Joy Of Sects Review: Jamie Webster …