I’ve been following Spector around for a while now. After I noticed their sound filled the gap between guitar rock and soul-less synth-pop, and I swear I wanted to write this review witho

It’s no secret to anyone that’s been keeping their ear to the pop-punk ground recently that Kingston, PA’s Title Fight are the standard bearers for the genre’s new take on mid 90’s emo, lacing t

In spite of winning Best British Female at the 2011 BRIT Awards, Laura Marling still remains, puzzlingly, an unknown quantity to many a household. Her first two albums, 2008’s Alas, I cannot Swim a

LA Rockers, Black Veil Brides sure enjoy being in the spotlight. These fellas are always coming up with something new to keep their “army” fascinated. Since their first album release We Stitch The

On A Mission is the debut album from Peckham born Katy B after the mammoth success of her first single "Katy on A mission", a staple on dance floors across the country, she was a feature on many on

The Glass Room have been hard at work since I was introduced to their unique take on alternative-rock at the beginning of the year. The trio’s single “Empyrean” turned out to be an intriguing ble

Ghostpoet (presumably still Obaro Ejimiwe to his mum) released PBBMJ, his debut album earlier this year. However, because Altsounds is truly benevolent, here’s a review just in case you missed it

Kent quintet, Dirty Vibes bring with their debut EP, Black Habit, their own stylised brand of ‘80’s pop-metal, transforming the Home Counties into a lone highway of dive saloons, leather, a

I spent half of 2011 hating this album. Utterly hating it. It might have been because the first introduction of this record was a ghost online apparition of the highly-James-Ford-charged track 'Bri

We're all for being frugal here at Altsounds given that we're all staring into another bankers hairypocalypse again and all that, but somewhat annoyingly Beat Your Fist arrived on a CD-R containi

If you’re struggling to find an indie band that can hook you straight in within the first 20 seconds of a song, then look no further than Whales in Cubicles. They sound a little like Razorlight a

Coming at ya straight out of Swindon – well, as straight as anyone can come out of the Wiltshire Rock Nexus via the magic roundabout, When Words Fail officially take the prize for the worst PR t

The A&R dudes at Sony obviously anticipate something very big from The Milk, an Essex quartet who began life as a punk outfit but have now taken the not wholly original but likely more prospero

Shyness is nice, and shyness can stop you from doing all the things in life you'd like to. I mean, shy people – what's that all about? You never buy a round – you're not in the bar in the fir

Following a somewhat lengthy hiatus following his 2008 rave-inspired debut Where Were U in ’92?, Zomby’s 2011 has seen him release his follow-up; last Summer’s greatly more sombre Dedication

2011 has been absolutely huge for Adele, and it’s all been because of this album. 21 is Adele’s sophomore album, a follow up from her well received debut, 19. It was nominated for the Mercury Mus