The Music venue trust have reported a catastrophic drop in attendance, advance ticket sales and spend per head has hit...
I don’t know what it is about Christmas albums but somehow it’s difficult to judge exactly how to review them....
For the last traditional new music podcast of the year, Bill Cummings and Jim Auton were joined by Jack Clothier...
Thallo aka Elin Edwards has been quietly building a reputation for evocative and rich, bilingual compositions. Thallo takes her name...
Complete sonic metamorphosis isn’t a new concept for The Horrors, but their recent leftfield swerve into stompy ‘90s-style industrial rock...
With such a huge public appetite for its fare, music has long been an integral feature of Christmas time. From...
If there’s one thing that 2021 has taught me, and it’s taught me a lot, it’s that you shouldn’t expect...
The last release for Libertino this year is the wonderfully inspired collaboration between N’famady Kouyate and Gruff Rhys. ‘Miniyamba /...
For the past few years, I’ve wondered what would happen if Matt Loveridge, AKA MXLX, Fairhorns, Gnar Hest, Team Brick,...
Lunar Vacation have shared their charmingly wonky and fuzzed out take on Wham!’s classic Christmas single ‘Last Christmas’. Released earlier this year,...
In June of this year, James released their sixteenth album All The Colours Of You – landing at number three...
Over the course of doing some research for this review it dawned on me that Shore Dive Records has been...
I hate end of year lists. I don’t get the obsession with it all. The commitment in print to a...
It’s a cold, cold night in Birmingham, even inside the usually toasty (and rather excellent) O2 Institute 2, where tonight...
New labels are exciting. They usher in an unlimited amount of promise. Much like a new exercise book at the...