6th June 2015 During the ‘David Bowie Is…’ exhibition at The Victoria and Albert Museum in 2013, Geordie singer-songwriter Beth Jeans Houghton had an epiphany; inspired by the Thin White Duke’s taste for reinvention, this was the inception of… Continue Reading
4th June 2015 Melding melancholic electro with a bluegrass soul North Carolinian natives Sylvan Esso are currently on the crest of a wave and come to Bristol’s Marble Factory with the kind of swagger that only an unstoppable momentum can imbue.… Continue Reading
2nd June 2015 East India Youth, AKA William Doyle, has stated that he increasingly sees himself as a “non-musician.” This may come as a surprise from an artist whose debut album, Total Strife Forever, garnered critical acclaim and secured him a… Continue Reading
20th May 2015 Lets get this out of the way first: Swans are very, very loud. You don’t get a reputation for being the loudest band in rock, and hand out free ear buds at your shows, without some justification. But… Continue Reading
11th May 2015 With frontman Sam France’s penchant for volatile stage antics (smashing himself in the face with a microphone, climbing speaker-stacks, confronting hecklers, breaking his own leg), Californian psychedelic rockers Foxygen have established a growing reputation for… Continue Reading
30th April 2015 Watching And So I Watch You From Afar (ASIWFA) really is like being in a post-rock tumble dryer. Tossed and turned from this side to side, it’s a choppy but pleasantly warm experience that leaves you feeling… Continue Reading
23rd April 2015 With their inventive approach of sampling retro public information films, archive footage and war time propaganda materials atop euphoric soundscapes of electronic rock, London-based history fetishists Public Service Broadcasting can lay claim to being one… 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