28 April 2015 Vancouver-based Dan Mangan has been plying his singer-songwriter trade for some time now. Releasing his first full-length Postcards & Daydreaming in 2005, it wasn’t until 2009’s Nice, Nice, Very Nice (a title taken from Kurt Vonnegut’s Cat’s Cradle) that his melancholic music… Continue Reading
23 April 2015 Polar Bear are experiencing a joyful rejuvenation at present. Following a prolonged hiatus after 2012’s Peepers, the band resuscitated itself with last year’s exquisite In Each and Every One, an album which chopped between the brash and the… Continue Reading
21 April 2015 Will and the People took Thekla by storm last Friday, and we were there to capture all the action. [gallery_bank type=”images” format=”thumbnail” title=”true” desc=”true” img_in_row=”3″ animation_effect=”fadeIn” album_title=”false” album_id=”32″] Images: Will Fahy [advps-slideshow optset=”1″]
Who is That? of Montreal are the mainstays of the alternative rock scene, the band originally forming in 1996 in Athens, Georgia and named after a failed romance between lead singer Kevin Barnes and a woman ‘of Montreal’. The band… Continue Reading
18 April 2015 Ahead of his show at Bristol’s Marble Factory, we caught up with Matthew E White about his latest album Fresh Blood, his musical influences and the songwriting process. [advps-slideshow optset=”1″]
17 April 2015 This week Colpey Calling x The Fix went all sub-Saharan, with some of our favourite African belters plus a mix from Hi Life Hi Fi. The DJ first came to our attention as a warm-up for Ibibio… Continue Reading
15 April 2015 After a few weeks off, Picture of the Week returns – this week it’s William Doyle of East India Youth. Take a look at the concentration on his face as he masters a table full of electronics… Continue Reading
Who is That? Foxygen is the combined forces of of Sam France and Jonathan Rado, the LA songwriting duo who joined together as teenagers in 2005 to play wildly experimental music before being ‘discovered’ by producer Richard Swift in 2009… Continue Reading