This is the second of record company Sonarpilot Audio’s remix albums, titled Flotsam/Namibia Nightflight. We are not only treated to two original Sonarpilot tracks, “Flotsam” and “Namib

I’ve just arrived on the opening day of Kendal Calling 2011. The festival, now in its sixth consecutive year, is once again situated in the gorgeous natural surrounds of the Lowther Deer Park, hi

Rock music is seriously underrepresented at this year’s Kendal Calling so when the sweet rock riffage of The Virginmarys begins to fire free, I make sure I’m already lining the front barrier with

Like me, the sun’s barely been awake for more than a few hours and it’s already making yesterday seem like a typical day from Iceland’s frosty winter. Now’s the time most festival party anima

Grub time. Usually the time of day many festival goers fear. After all, planning to buy a meal from a festival food vendor often means taking out a second mortgage before turning up at your docto

Nobody in their right mind would want the opening slot on the final morning of any three-day music festival, especially when ominous rain clouds loom overhead and serotonin levels leak to an all ti

With half an hour to spare before I savour the flavour of the delectable Lancashire Hotpots, I take a trip over to Kendal Calling’s Monstrous Garden which is bursting with bizarre but fascinati

Kevin Ridley is a longtime producer who has previously sung in Skyclad, a band described as "folk-metal pioneers". That phrase calls to my mind images of beards, shredding solos in the woods, a

A lot of you will be familiar with Mr. Scruff, a DJ who has been working for a good few years now. His output has varied not just in style, but in quality, and this latest single demonstrates t

The new EP from Brainfeeder’s Strangeloop is not your average release. It’s more of a project, a vision in which Strangeloop, AKA David Wexler, has combined his immense AV skills with preci

When a band reaches the twenty year mark, it must be hard to decide in which direction musically to go to next. Do you back track to an unoriginal yet popular style, or move on and create somethi

With the release of their debut EP Go Over Here, Tiger Bones show all us listeners out there what it means to be a self described “weirdo surf rock band”. ‘Kill Them’ is like a long slow descent in

Jungle music is one of the more peculiar genres. It can literally encompass anything at all currently in the dance music bracket; drum and bass, old school, ragga etc but what happens when they a

‘Midthing’ is the second single taken from Swedish group Baron Bane’s album LPTO, released in July this year. Having no previous experience of the band and being slightly dubious of acts that ref

Before November last year, I didn’t give a shit about Bomb The Music Industry!. There were a number of reasons for this; the drum machines, the buzzing synths, the ‘musical collective’ thing, and

This is the kind of brilliant music that English artists occasionally produce, immediately making us see why it’s so easy to mock Coldplay for their MOR cowardice, for example. It’s visceral, driv