pop
Live Review: Altered Images – 229 Great Portland Street, London 18.03.2022
Blame the internet. Time is warped. Everything is now….and everything then…is now too. Without the internet, the hunger and desire to see bands from “back in the day” may not exist outside the mind of some aspic-encrusted nostalgia radio geek. All hail the global jukebox. Nobody in 1983 said “I’m just popping out, I’ve got …
Live Review: Courtney Barnett lets us into her room
Courtney Barnett delivers blissful set at the Enmore Theatre
Tracks: Static Phantoms – Ghostwalk
The Kansas City duo of Dedric Moore and Krysztof Nemeth (Monta at Odds, The Republic Tigers, Emmaline Twist)took the downtime during the pandemic to create a studio project to pass the time and get creative by exploring the music and themes of a different age of anxiety-driven pop: the New Wave music of the 1980s. …
Track: Rya Park drops new track ‘Generational’
Rya Park drops new track and video ‘Generational’ ahead of EP.
News: Mark Tremonti Announces ‘Tremonti Sings Sinatra’ Charity Album For The National Down Syndrome Society
GRAMMY® winning musician, producer, author as well as founding member of chart-topping, globally successful rock bands Alter Bridge, Creed, and Tremonti, Mark Tremonti is “stepping out” with his most-ambitious and challenging project to date. Announced today, March 21st, on World Down Syndrome Day, Mark has partnered with National Down Syndrome Society (NDSS) as he releases an album …
Meet: Coyle Girelli The ‘Shoegaze Elvis Presley’
‘Funland’ is the title of Girelli’s second solo album. Full of catchy tunes and dominated by that hugely powerful and emotive voice, the album is one of the best this year (read our review here). I thought it was hugely important to allow the man to introduce himself and tell us who inspires him and …
Live Review: Nilüfer Yanya / Léa Sen – Electric Brixton, London 16.03.2022
By Cath Dupuy Nilüfer Yanya played her last show of her UK tour at the historic Electric Brixton, London to a packed, rapturous audience. Following on from her acclaimed first album ‘Miss Universe’ on ATO Records in 2019, she was promoting her second album ‘Painless’ just released last week, again to highly impressive reviews from …
Live Review: Sophie Ellis-Bexter / Holiday Sidewinder- Sheffield City Hall 12.03.2022
A Saturday night trip to Sheffield City Hall this week and something a bit different for me. Having tuned in to Sophie’s Instagram Friday ‘Kitchen Disco’ episodes during the pandemic I had become a fan. Her online presence made me smile and in an otherwise bleak period during lockdown, she was a weekly ray of …
Premiere: Sydney’s Winter Starlings alight with the jangling statuesque single ‘Arise’ and announce launch date.
We are honoured to premiere the new single ‘Arise’ from Sydney group Winter Starlings. ‘Arise’ has a warm veracity with raw and visceral guitars that jangle into the stratosphere, replete with yearning vocals and delicate harmonies. There is a subtle folk/americana in the delivery, a Byrdsian jingle jangle with a Teenage Fanclub pop spine. However, …
Live Review: Tony Hadley 40th Anniversary Tour + The Vanities – St David’s Hall, Cardiff, 09.03.2022
It is good to get a sense of normality again as restrictions lift even in Wales and gigs come back, and this mid-week appointment with the Cardiff date of Tony Hadley’s 40th anniversary tour, celebrating four full decades since the inception of Spandau Ballet, was an excellent occasion to shake off the cobwebs and experience …