Take one great rising young rock band and a venue the size of my local pharmacy on a blustery coast-line, and what do you get? One extremely explosive, sweaty and memorable evening full of brillia

Female vocalists have a hard time in rock and metal. It seems that if you can’t sound like a man then you sound too much like a popstar. But Six Hour Sundown bridges the gap. Vocalist Lauren Harr

There's no shortage of rap songs which revolve around matters of inspiration, struggles and the fight to overcome something (Eminem loves a natter about this sort of thing, but to see how "look,

When the ticket says the doors to the venue open at 7:00PM, you would expect some grace period to allow the place to fill and for the crowd trickle in from their pre-gig watering holes before t

After a steady release of consistently decent records Madeline, a little known folk artist from Georgia, brings us a record of rarities and B-sides. There’s a time and a place for such a record a

The Twilight Sad are soon to be back with another long-player. New album, ‘No One Can Ever Know’ isn’t to be released until February 6th, but I can assure you that there is every reason to be getti

“I was reading an article about historical icons in Wallpaper magazine,” says McCauley, “and they had set out a reconstruction of Rams’ desk. On it was a pocket radio, and I was amazed at how ahe

Oxford’s The Dead Jerichos are a confused bunch. It seems they wish to mix that tired ‘laddish’ Hard-Fi inspired indie persona amongst the mathrock of The Foals and shoegaze of Sonic Youth. Oh, a

The engraving on the back of my iPod reads “Just an iPod”, a homage to Scroobious Pip’s lyric in ‘Thou Shalt Always Kill’ which bluntly states that great music groups remain ‘…just a band’; n

Abi Wade’s debut EP And Blood and Air is the first release from fledging label Love Thy Neighbour Records.

Hailing from Brighton, Abi classes herself as a cellist and singer. Her voice, a

Can you imagine if The Beach Boys had the type of recording equipment we do today? If Pet Sounds was produced with the type of technology we take for granted, would it improve the quality of t

For Hollie Cook, music was likely an inevitable destination to arrive at when considering her upbringing as the daughter of Sex Pistols drummer Paul Cook. Raised in a household in which a diver

“Bangin’ choons”. Just thinking this slaughter-worthy slogan is enough to put any open-minded music fan off dance music for good. How many times have you heard the phrase and wanted to run its orat

With the quite excellent Hardcore Heaven Summer Madness having only been released a few months ago, it seems as though the hardcore genre is really churning out the releases with the latest in t

Mieko Shimizu aka ‘Mico’ is a prolific London based Japanese composer, singer and producer, with several diverse and accomplished albums already under her belt. Her latest album, My Tentacles, is d

UK band, Theme Park seems to be all the rage these days. With their catchiness and appealing pop feel Theme Park is said to be one of pop music’s bands to be on the lookout for in 2012. Consisting