Interview: Fenech-Soler
Since releasing their eponymous debut album in 2010, the past three years have seen Fenech-Soler on a whirlwind spree of festival stages, tours alongside Kelis and Robyn, and some seriously danceable...
View ArticleTrack Premiere: Northern American –‘Wander’
When Californian four-piece Northern American chose to name their debut EP Happiness Hungover earlier this year, it revealed a great deal about the lush, evocative indie that the quartet produce. With...
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Moodboard: Maxïmo Park
Tyneside indie rock stalwarts Maxïmo Park return early next year with their much-anticipated fifth album, Too Much Information. A self-produced affair – with added input from the ever-impressive Dave...
View ArticleInterview: Courtney Barnett
Courtney Barnett is a woman who doesn’t mince her words. She’s a natural storyteller with literal lyrics consisting of day-to-day observations about gardening accidents, masturbation and the people she...
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Interview: Is Tropical
Pepe Jeans S1ngular Festival came to London town last month with a one off performance from hipster rockers Is Tropical at Hackney’s trendy Oval Space. Celebrating 40 years of denim excellence from the...
View ArticleEP Review: Happyness – Happyness
Oh, how misleading first impressions can be. From the moment a series of discordant coos and loosely chugging guitars ring out over ‘It’s On You’, the first cut from London trio Happyness’ self-titled...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks – Wig Out At Jag Bags
If Stephen Malkmus & the Jicks’ new album, Wig Out At Jag Bags, sounded much different to their previous five records we might all start worrying about the former Pavement frontman. As it stands...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Peggy Sue – Choir of Echoes
Congregating at the edge of the nu-folk wave that saw peers Mumford & Sons and Laura Marling reach unprecedented heights of chart popularity, Peggy Sue are a band that have paid their dues to the...
View ArticleAlbum Review: Dum Dum Girls – Too True
Dee Dee & co are back with Too True, their first full-length since 2011’s Only in Dreams. Coming off the back of two very different EPs in 2011’s He Gets Me High and its 2012 follow-up End of Daze,...
View ArticleHey Carl, Can We Be in Your Band Please?
On New Year’s Eve, presumably following one too many bottles of ye old honesty juice, he of the Libertines/Dirty Pretty Things fame, Mr. Carl Barat, announced to NME that he didn’t “want to be a solo...
View ArticleFoals on John Hammond
As part of their campaign about iconic music industry disruptor John Hammond, Guinness have commissioned a series of brilliant films with contemporary artists realising his legacy in the current day....
View ArticleKurt Vile – Back in the Day (Classic Notion)
Unruffled singer-songwriter KURT VILE describes the creation of his latest record, Wakin’ On A Pretty Daze, as a simple piece of cake. Ringing out a newly ambitious classic rock sound, Huw Oliver...
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