Anyone for 80’s influenced electronica pseudo-dubstep pop-rock?

It may not top the conventional surveys when it comes to everyone’s favourite musical plain, but Nottingham five-piece Swimmin

Pop quiz time: What do you get when you take one man with nothing more then an appetite to perform as a solo folk act to the 'locals', the amazing viral capability of the internet and a subseque

The British Indie scene is booming, so much so that it's difficult to find something really fresh in the genre. London based The Foxes' first studio album Last of Many has the crucial edge needed f

"French-by-way-of-Pontefract chanteuse" is not a phrase I have encountered often in music (and indeed some visitors to "Ponte Carlo" might suggest a certain disparity between the Yorkshire town a

Every Avenue is a Michigan born band whose third album Bad Habits released on August 2nd, 2011. Coincidentally a lot of bands that fall into the same genre as Every Avenue have some bad habits

The Unconsciousness of Living is the latest full length offering from Italian technical death metal wrecking crew Illogicist. This, the follow up to their 2007 album, The Insight Eye, certainly sho

Although it may not seem like it when you take a look at the weekly charts, British guitar rock is in a healthy state at the moment. Granted it seems at the moment that the only people going out a

Young Legionnaire is the once side, now main project of Paul Mullen (The Automatic) and Gordon Moakes (Bloc Party). Their debut album Crisis Works was released in May and their most recent headli

When I heard Noel Gallagher was releasing a solo album, I was exceedingly skeptical, and although some of it could be called re-cycled Oasis, other tracks can be credited for being fresh a

At 14 songs this is a long record in which you must invest a good hour of your time, which for you busy capitalist types is undoubtedly a waste of money as they say, so you will go about your chaot

The Drums were one of the most hyped bands of 2010 (think of it as the NYC equivalent of The Vaccines' hype during this year) and after the release of a very successful debut album, guitar play

We heard many things about Sunderland before embarking on our last festival quest of the 2011 season, and believe me none of them were good. Even though people described Split Festival as a live

'We're Not in Love', the opening track of This is Blitzkrieg, briefly hops from an eery instrumental intro to a brash riff that wouldn't be out of place in a heavier rock song, before settling on

This is one explosive, youthful and exciting burst of electro-pop genius that’s soaked with bouncy lyrics that are simple yet effective. Oh My! are the ridiculously energetic Jade, 20, and Alex, 1

It’s that time of year again, the time of year where curious music lovers and indie kids wearing glasses without lenses gather all over Cardiff, for promoter John Rostron and BBC DJ Huw Stephen

After 2 fantastic nights of music, day 3 is already upon me and being a Saturday, proceedings kicked off a lot earlier meaning that at about 4pm I was making my way towards the Cardiff Ar