Music
Live Review: Mayday Parade, Leeds University Stylus, 6.2.16
Tonight in the University Stylus is a bill that provides Leeds’ Saturday night crowd with several different strains of emo, depending on your taste. Beautiful Bodies are up first, feeling almost like they’re stuck in 2009. However their set is vibrant and pop-fuelled, and its undeniably fun with frontwoman Alicia Solombrino throwing shapes and spending …
See: Love Buzzard release new video for Cash
Filthy riffs and sordid drums lay the foundations for Love Buzzard, a London based band that we just can’t stop listening to. The band have been going strong for three years, and after support slots with Cerebral Ballzy, Slaves and God Damn, their debut album Antifistamines (due for release 12.2.16) contains the same amount of …
Remembering: Bradford’s Ian H Interview
I suppose you’d say they were nearly men, Bradford. And just writing that makes me feel a little sad. The Blackburn five piece, Ian H. (Ian Michael Hodgson, vocals), Ewan Butler (guitar), John Baulcombe (Keyboards),Jos Murphy (bass guitar), and Mark McVitie (drums), released a handful of singles and one brilliant album Shouting Quietly, as well …
Album Review: Sunflower Bean – Human Ceremony
By Ryan Jameson Weaver Our music industry moves so fast that a band can come out with something so unique and amazing that it is relevant for a week and then bounces into waves anonymity right after. Take for example, the last My Bloody Valentine album, MBV, an album 20 years in the making, from …
News: Viola Beach killed in Car Crash
The four members of Warrington indie four piece Viola Beach have been killed in a car crash in Sweden, along with their manager. The incident happened in the early hours of Saturday morning, when the band – Kris Leonard, River Reeves, Tomas Lowe and Jack Dakin along with manager Craig Tarry were travelling back from …
Track: Modern Chair – Can’t Look Back
New Zealand’s Modern Chair have been drip feeding singles all last year, and each release anticipates the next with a mounting sense of excitement. Let’s be clear: I am a huge fan. From their debut, ‘Tokyo Compression’ through to ‘Vampire Squid’ and ‘Sending the Sun’, Modern Chair produces dirty, stomping squalls of pure joy laced …
Not Forgotten – Bob Dylan – Blood on the Tracks
Blood On The Tracks is that rare thing, an album that deserves every word of praise heaped upon it. At this stage in his career Bob Dylan had done his best to shake off the oh-so cliched ‘voice of a generation’ tag. His mid 60s electric trilogy had been rightly celebrated, but it had made …
News: Letlive. Announce UK Tour In April
Letlive. have announced a UK tour! This April, the post-hardcore outfit will hit four venues over here, before heading out for a short time to Europe. These include three dates in London, and one at Manchester’s Sound Control. Their new album is set for release in the summer, so this will be the band’s first …
A beginners’ guide to The Beatles
For me there is one genuine great body of creative work from the 20th Century which is beyond criticism. It towers above the collected work of artists like Salvador Dali and Pablo Picasso. The collected writings of JRR Tolkien finds itself overshadowed by comparison. The original trio of films in the Star Wars franchise looks …
Reissue: George Jones – Cold Hard Truth/Live With The Possum
Even people who hate country have heard of Dolly or Kenny, but ironically the late, great George Jones outsold the pair of them despite hardly anyone on this side of the pond having heard of him. Cold Hard Truth is late period Jones recorded after years of drunken hellraising that put him in the same …