Noah and the Whale are an eclectic yet unassuming looking bunch. Bassist Matt Owens, with his long blonde hair looks like he should be fronting a heavy metal band. Fred Abbott, the guitaris

The music industry has always been a breeding ground for below par bands to jump on the coattails of a popular genre and bleed it for all its creative worth, until everyone is sick of hearing it.

Hudson Mohawke doesn’t have a mohawke and he isn’t a river in New Jersey - sorry to disappoint. He is actually a 25 year old Glaswegian man named Ross Birchard and he’s a better DJ than you.

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Since being hoofed from their garage and into the world’s gaze, controversy and criticism has covered Bring Me The Horizon like a bad case of premature perspiration. If five years ago you’d ha

With the first day of Ghostfest 2011 over and another ear-splitting number of hours ready for the off, AltSounds gingerly made the same walk to Leeds University as the day before, albeit with

Well, this is a new one on me. Sure, metal music, and in particular doom, comes hand-in-hand with the imagery of battle and war, but very rarely does it evoke the tension, terror and torment

After thirty years of playing together and 18 years since the release of their last studio album, DC hardcore punk band Scream have released a new EP 'Complete Control Sessions', recorded live

Obvious form the title of the EP, Afrolicious' 'Dub For Mali' is a fusion of west African music and the Caribbean beat. The fusion of the two is no innovation to music but rarely is it done to th

It’s the opening morning of the first day here at Leeds festival and already Bramham Park is starting to resemble the world’s largest mud wrestling pit. The rain is pouring, the ground in churni

Leeds Festival has once again got me caught between a rock and a hard place. Up next, following We Are The Ocean’s dampened set on this main stage, are Long Island veterans Taking Back Sund

I don’t know if you’ve noticed yet but there’s a theme running through today that sees Leeds Festival serve up more than just one must see live act, at any one time. I’ve already been faced wi

Back over on the rain-soaked main stage we’re about to be greeted by true Leeds Festival stalwarts – the ever youthful, post-hardcore, dance-rock quartet, Enter Shikari. Irrespective of which sta

I’m standing squashed against Justin Bieber’s more annoying twin (bet you didn’t think that was even possible did you?) in this now heaving NME/Radio 1 tent thinking to myself how much I on

Although Kurt Cobain’s suicide cast a long shadow, 1994 was a remarkable year for rock music, with the release of a slew of classic albums whose influence continues to shape our world: Green Day

On today, a day that simply bleeds diversity – the common threads being hard rock intensity, metallic belligerence and punk buoyancy – it’s fitting to find the only band playing before the cloc

We’ve not yet reached the part of the day where AM turns to PM and already I’m faced with one hell of a tough dilemma. Over on the main stage we’ll soon be greeted by Brighton based metalco