The Loud are from Liverpool, and judging by Harris Shutter are already better than fellow Scousers The Zutons (despite lacking a spectacularly leggy saxophonist) and more energetic than The Coral,

You know those art installations in the Tate Modern that are meant to demonstrate something deep and meaningful like the futility of life or the poison splinters of gossip but are actually just

Fitz and the Tantrums is a six-piece that specializes in a retro sound born from 60s and 70s Motown. They previously released an EP Breakin’ The Chains Of Love that stirred many fans’ interest. N

Listening to Prince Edward Island is like listening to all of the sickly sweet, too-nice-to function bands in the world throwing flowers at all of the drug addled miseries of the world a

Seeing the words ‘art-popsters’ in a press release is enough to fill anybody with the kind of dread you can feel running down your legs. But then how else to characterize this Brighton based ba

What is there to say about Biscuit Head and the Biscuit Badgers really?

Bizarre? Definitely,
Obscure? Undoubtedly.
Genius? Quite possibly.

Fusing dance hall cabaret with mind blowlingly stran

It’s been a nightmare trying to gain further information on an artist called Captain Planet. All I seem to get is results on a superhero that goes by the name of Captain Planet, which is not usef

Psychic Welfare is the third studio album from the duo of producers Julian Grefe and Justin Geller. On their last album Endless, the group expanded from a duo to include drummer Jeremy Gewertz, ba

A song can echo a songwriter’s influences, their surrounding culture or environment. An album embodies a collective of such songs, representative of a certain stage in a songwriter’s career.

Even in a world of music downloads, micro-labels and do-it-yourself tours, it can be a long, bleak road for unsigned bands: hastily arranged venues, hard nights on the road and counting every gro

Minnesotans Low have always been one of those bands that many admire, whilst at the same time only really enjoying their material sparingly. From their 2005 release, The Great Destroyer whi

Mis Labios is the latest release from Munk, with vocals from the Brazilian Joyce Muniz, taken off the well-received The Bird and the Beat album. It allegedly sounds like “Spanish Harlem 1977”, but

Austin, TX’s Krum Bums have apparently been doing the street punk rounds for the better part of a decade. I say apparently because street punk is one of those things that I don’t give even t

Mostly Coats begin their debut full length album ‘Hung Up’ with the track ‘Innocence’, it’s plain to see within the first thirty seconds of this track how easily this bands sound could be likened

There are many elements of Frank Turner's songwriting that, on paper, should not work. These are made evermore obvious in new single 'If Ever I Stray', the second release from fourth studio alb

On 5 February 2011, Manchester’s Louis Barabbas & The Bedlam Six put on what could arguably be the finest show of their career to date at The Dancehouse Theatre in Oxford Road. Not only did they p