Indie
Album Review: Mark Lanegan Band – A Thousand Miles of Midnight
Since forming the Screaming Trees in the mid-1980s Mark Lanegan has been viewed as a welcome figure on the alternative rock periphery. He has collaborated with everyone from Queens of the Stone Age and Greg Dulli (the Afghan Whigs/Gutter Twins) to Belle and Sebastian’s Isobel Campbell. For about thirty years, his prolific output has varied in …
Track: YAST – When you’re around
Out today on Adrian Recordings is the new single from the Malmö, Swedish slacker band YAST. Its the first glimpse of what’s to come from their second album, due out later in the year. It’s been two years since the five piece released their debut, self-titled album, which took them around the world. It flowers …
See: Many Things release video for Holy Fire
Ahead of their debut album ‘Burn Together’, out this summer on Australian label Dew Process, home to the likes of London Grammar, Circa Waves, Mumford and Sons, James Vincent McMorrow and The Hives, London indie trio Many Things have released a video for their forthcoming single ‘Holy Fire’. Is the first glimpse of what the …
Track: Lorna – Wayne Mills
Out on record store day (April 6th) is the latest single from prolific Nottingham indie poppers Lorna. The six piece release the three track release, Wayne Mills, ahead of their sixth album ‘London’s Leaving Me’, which is due out later in the year on Minnesota record label Words On Music. Recorded in the bands home …
Indie: Jungle Doctors – Settle
Despite not actually being doctors, of either the jungle or indeed everything else, London five piece Jungle Doctors have been prescribing healthy doses of indie rock to an increasingly attentive (and growing) band of listeners. That journey, such as it is, began in earnest with the release of their first EP in 2012, and began …
Live Review: Johnny Marr – Leadmill, Sheffield 20-03-15
Just in case you were wondering about tonight’s headline act, as soon as the lights went down, the crowd left you in no doubt that a legend was about to take centre stage… “Johnny. Johnny. Johnny fucking Marr! – Johnny. Johnny. Johnny fucking Marr! ” The protagonist takes the stage and ploughs straight into …
Live Review: Bang Bang Romeo at The Plug, 21 March 2015
It’s been almost a year since I last saw Bang Bang Romeo live. That’s not to say they haven’t been playing the gigs, indeed their multiple appearances at the Tramlines last year made them one of the most talked about acts of the festival, it’s just that the vagaries of my day job and life …
Live review: The Lovely Eggs at the Trades Club, Hebden Bridge.
When a singer is hammered on stage it is usually incredibly irritating but tonight it actually adds to the anarchy this talented duo seem to thrive on. When Holly Ross lurches up to the mic and says with utter conviction this what we believe, then launches into an energised Fuck It , you know they …
Features: Tournee De Satanists – Dirty White Fever / Eye of the Liger – Tour diary (part 3)
Welcome to part 3 of Tournee De Satanists.[Parts 1 and 2 can be found by clicking HERE] Last week we left the bands flailing around in a dark windowless room with a cricket bat come broard sword – like you do – here’s what happened next… Day 6: Metz – Le troubadour –22/01/15 The next …
See: Little Death Machine release new video for Pale/December
Little Death Machine‘s new single ‘Pale’, and b-side ‘December’, dial things down several notches, take the rock out of the equation and gently deposit us into slower, hazier soundscapes. There’s still an air of disquiet and unease supplied by the melancholy guitar rolls, the coarse, shuddering drums and the soft but insistent alarm-like keyboards. The video, …