When the artist, the venue, the crowd and the location align, it creates an extraordinary experience. Manchester’s jazz punks Maruja...
Kate Haresnape covers Manchester Punk Festival 2024.
Recent years have seen Thundercat‘s (real name Stephen Bruner) prominence rise beyond anything the LA-based artist could have ever imagined....
At last year’s GRAMMYs – the annual ceremony run by the Recording Academy of the United States to recognise outstanding...
With the eyes of The Big Yin staring down into the basement venue of The Old Toll Bar, some could...
It’s only been just over a year since Pierce The Veil were last on UK shores, which saw them tearing...
Dublin’s SPRINTS released probably the first vital album of 2024 when their debut Letter To Self arrived just five days...
Kid Kapichi were supposed to have a day off tomorrow. They really like Bristol, so they deliberately built in a...
For people of a certain age who devoured the weekly/monthly music press back in the day, there was always a...
My first sighting of Bill Ryder-Jones was at the Glastonbury Festival in 2002. He was then the lead guitarist with The Coral, the...
The inaugural House Guest fest took place in Glasgow across three venues, Garage Attic, Nice N Sleazy and Variety Bar...
Pissed Jeans have been doing this sort of thing for years now. 20, in fact. Releasing album after album of...
Cards on the table, I’m a guitar music kinda guy, but, as they say, variety is the spice of life,...
That one of the dates on Sam Lee’s current songdreaming tour of the UK should be at the Old Woollen seems entirely fitting....
Pop music is in an interesting place in the 20s, very different to its place in the 10s or the...