Discovering a label with a sincere passion is a blessing. With an outstanding rise in DIY labels, you find yourself drowning in all these names putting out multiple releases with a stream of a

Where to start with Transit, Balance & Composure and Title Fight? All three have had an absolutely stellar 2011, with their respective profiles on an almost unstoppable rise. Transit’s lovelo

83370 is the first release from French Brothers Ollie Viero and Nico Serus, AKA Sinteg. It's not clear what the titular digits represent, but personally I think it's the number of a safety depos

A considerable buzz has been building around Hookworms as of late, which may or may not seem justifiable depending on your view of bands that re-purpose past approaches and build off of them. T

When not busying themselves with misdirecting Twitter traffic from their Nigerian president namesake, Goodluck Jonathan are keen to stress there displeasure with being labelled as ‘a genre specif

Preferring, at times, the more encompassing term ‘UK Bass’ to the more misunderstanding and often misplaced tag ’dubstep,’ Skream’s work outside of ‘supergroup’ Magnetic Man has leant more towar

Rock Sound has done it again; 4 great bands for only £14, how can you argue with that? On paper the line-up is incredible with a good mix of bands that will appeal to a lot of people and all t

There are some things in this world I don’t get. Socks with sandals, Fatima Whitbread (WHAT IS IT!?) and why my Mother will walk in halfway through a film, ask “What this about?”, not get what t

After a couple of albums with We Were The States, frontman JK Webb is now playing with long-time friends The Pleasers. While Behind The Screen Door is solid rather than spectacular, the two parti

I will admit from the get go that before I was asked to review these remixes, I had absolutely no bloody clue who V V Brown was, but apparently she is an English singer/songwriter in the vein o

With tracks featured on the E4 series Fresh Meat, This Is Freedom, a now three-piece rock band from High Wycombe, have already shown that they have mass-appeal and mean business in the pop-pu

I must be very British in my ways. Not that I go around the stately home in a top hat, drinking tea and giving orders to my butler. No, not at all, I don’t like tea. But apparently, across t

These two singles are the latest output from UK DJ Andy Carthy, AKA Mr Scruff. If you’re pushed for time I’ll save you the trouble; they’re not great.

‘Bounce’ is rhythmic and mildly hypnotic, b

Life Is Beautiful is the debut album from San Diego based band The Beautiful View, and in spite of most of the things that made me want to hate the album, I actually ended up liking it a fair bi

Brighton’s own Soft Rocks are not an Air Supply tribute band. They’re in fact very much at the complete opposite end of soft rock and certainly the mainstream music scene. They’ve been describ

Despite being called Copenhagen, Stephanie Cabdevila and Lionel Fahy are very much French citizens who together make minimalistic, off-beat, alternative music. When they’re apart, she is