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It is surprising that it’s been just six years since Cage the Elephant’s debut album caught the attention of the masses with its jamming rhythms and mutinous attitude. Since then, Bowling Green’s own have released two more wildly intriguing albums, expanding upon their eclectic sound. Their staunch melodic choruses…

In a world where there’s an increasing amount noise – whether it be media or industry – Sweden’s own Josefin Öhrn seeks freedom from the chaos. Öhrn opens herself to the maelstrom of effects that isolation brings within modern society, and together with her aptly titled backing band The Liberation…

With a building hype in their native Australia, Holy Holy’s debut album ‘When The Storms Would Come’ finally crosses over the Pacific and gets its European release. The nucleus of this musical project comprises singer-songwriter Timothy Carroll and guitarist/composer Oscar Dawson. The duo initially met whilst teaching English in…

Over the course of the past decade, Beach House have occupied their own corner of the modern musical landscape by churning out steady, meditative dream pop with dependently outstanding results. Starting from their self-titled debut album, Victoria Legrand and Alex Scally have remained both remarkably consistent and confident in their…

After a middling but creatively heterogeneous four-album career, Reverend & The Makers deliver one of the year’s biggest surprises with their finest album yet. Ideas have never been a problem for band-leader Jon McClure and his ragtag team of longtime collaborators, but on ‘Mirrors‘ the band display a keen sense…

Fidlar‘s 2013 self-titled debut album is perhaps the rowdiest rock n’ roll album in recent memory. In a riotous forty minutes, the L.A. four-piece brashly embraced their skate-punk moniker “F**k It Dawg, Life’s a Risk” with party anthems such as ‘Cheap Beer’ and ‘Wake Bake Skate…

Paul Smith first made a name for himself through a sharp lyrical wit and charismatic presence whilst fronting Maxïmo Park. Concise, literary lyrics contrasting against the band’s frantic power-pop instrumentation made Maxïmo Park one of the most memorable bands to come out of the mid-aughts indie rock boom. Now,…

The Strypes‘ first album was literally and figuratively speaking a nostalgic, confident snapshot of garage rock and boom blues. Bursting with energy, the band’s back to the basics brand of rock n’ roll gained them fans ranging from Sir Elton John to Dave Grohl, and while their workmanlike musicianship…

“It’s always around me, all this noise,” is the opening lyrical couplet on Tame Impala’s exceptional third album ‘Currents‘. Kevin Parker, the band’s mastermind, has always tried to make sense of the chaos that surrounds his life. The project’s previous two albums were covered in hazy guitars, the songs…

  The Statue Thieves are a psychedelic rock band from North London whose sound ingrates elements of country, blues, and even funk – like the best artists synthesizing a multitude of influences, while at the same time creating something totally brand new. ‘Revolutions In Your Mind‘ is the band’s latest…

With bands like Ex Hex and Savages achieving success, there’s no shortage of fantastic girl led rock n’ roll bands around. But a fierce and heavy hitting four-piece band hailing from Manchester called PINS is one of most promising to come along in a while. For those who aren’t familiar,…

Happyness at the Live4ever Media Lounge, SXSW 2015 (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever) The greatest moments of happiness come unexpectedly, often with a sense of effortlessness. Fitting then that South London trio Happyness burst onto the scene earlier this year with an effortlessly outstanding self-titled EP. The group’s breezy melodies…

It’s been a long and crazy journey for Cairo Knife Fight’s founder and lead singer Nick Gaffaney, so the chaos and madness which commonly surrounds SXSW should be nothing new to him. In the space of six months Gaffaney moved from New Zealand to the US, recorded an album and…

East India Youth (Photo: Paul Bachmann for Live4ever) Dressed sharp – even in the blistering humid Texas sun – is William Doyle, the mastermind behind East India Youth. The immaculate sense of style reflects the sleek electronic ambiance of his musical project. Last year, critics took note of a pristine…

The shape of electronic music has shifted and evolved over the course of the Prodigy’s twenty-five year existence, but few groups have had a larger impact on the genre and culture itself. Initially born out of the late-80s rave scene the Prodigy, along with fellow British acts Fatboy Slim…

Modest Mouse’s sixth album, ‘Strangers To Ourselves‘, comes out after an eight-year hiatus which included prolonged recording sessions and a cancelled tour. Since the release of ‘We Were Dead Before the Ship Even Sank‘ in 2007, the band has lost three members – Eric Judy (bass/multi-instrumentalist), Johnny Marr (guitar),…