Indie
Meet: Fink: music business is a big gamble
In the world where music is a product of consumption, often cheap, short on nutrition values, and is easy to dispose of when one gets bored of it, finding artists with timeless compositions, gently and with care sewn together, making you leave all your work and thoughts aside and dive deep into the intricate world …
Soundtrack of our lives: Alex Lowe (Hurricane #1)
Hurricane Number One are back with a new album, a new line up and, following a bout of serious illness, front-man Alex Lowe is revitalised and breathing new life it to the band …” I have been fighting cancer for over a year and had kidney failure – I should be dead at least 3 …
Track: Teenage Wrist – Summer
Ahead of tomorrows (May 19th) release of their debut EP, Dazed, Los Angeles trio Teenage Wrist have released a new single, Summer. The componant parts of the band have form though, with Swing Hero’s Marshall Gallagher joined by Kamtin Mohager (Chain Gang Of 1974), and Anthony Salazar making up the three piece. Summer opens with …
Track: Kid Wave – Best Friend
International boy/girl four piece Kid Wave are back with a new song, Best Friend, and a new album, Wonderlust, due out soon on Heavenly Recordings. Now residing in London, singer/songwriter Lea Emmery and guitarist Mattias Bhatt hail from the south-east coast of Sweden, while drummer Serra Petale hails from Perth, Australia and bassist Harry Deacon …
Live Review: Django Django at Plug, Sheffield, 14th May 2015
Django Django are the kind of band who have been vaguely just outside my radar for the last few years but seem to be compared to every band I really enjoy at the moment. I always assumed they were newcomers to the scene but was surprised to find they’d formed back in 2009 at Edinburgh …
Feature: Soundtrack Of Our Lives – Pete Howard (EAT)
EAT have been described as one of the indie scenes best kept secrets. Their 1989 debut album,’Sell Me A God’ , with its heavy leaning towards the sounds of Creedance Clearwater Revival, but also taking influences from the likes of The Doors, Gang of Four, and Big Audio Dynamite, was hailed as a one of …
Meet: Love Amongst Ruin – A Talk With Steve Hewitt
Most of us -having been the drummer for an internationally successful alternative rock band for over ten years then subsequently let go out of the blue for no reason- would more than likely curl up into a ball and drown our sorrows in lousy food, lousy booze, and self-contempt. Right? Well maybe I’m speaking for …
Album Review: Gengahr – A Dream Outside
A lot of the time these days we’re constantly reminded that yes; guitar music is dead, or no; guitar music isn’t dead. Then we have punky bands like The Vaccines, Palma Violets and Catfish and the Bottlemen that resurrect rock music like Frankenstein’s monster. But I’ve been of the mind that instead of insisting that …
See: One Eyed Wayne release new video for ‘Various Artists’
One Eyed Wayne are back with a new track – ‘Various Artists’ is a Duryesque stomper about what could easily become a sad lament to a real life endangered species, the unsavoury pub dweller. It’s another slice of what we affectionately referred to as streetcore, a blend of punk-poetry set to a catchy street wise beat …
Album Review: Palma Violets – Danger in the Club
The London based Indie Rock outlet Palma Violets broke through to the mainstream with their debut album 180, released in 2013, after a successful lead single and significant promotion from the likes of NME. Comparisons have been drawn from the likes of The Libertines, The Strokes, and the whole Garage-Rock revival. Admittedly, I was not …