With their debut single ‘Things Will Change’ – released in early April – Treetop Flyers had already set the pace for their forthcoming debut album. The British five-piece chose to record The Mountain Moves in sunny Malibu, California and it certainly possesses a West Coast, 60s vintage rock …
The Sunshine Underground are a band you might vaguely know if you were into guitar music about seven years ago, but generally they’ve done well to not bother the music radars since their very pleasing debut ‘Raise The Alarm’ and relative smash hit ‘Commercial Breakdown’. They’re keen to dive straight …
After releasing their debut album Gorilla Manor in 2009, Los Angeles’ progressive indie-folk band, Local Natives have been touring the world for the past three years and settled in the studio to write and produce their much anticipated second album, Hummingbird. Teaming up with The National’s Aaron Dessner …
When we asked our current BOTW, Portland post-pop-punk trio The Thermals, to put together a playlist of the tracks that inspired their latest LP, Desperate Ground, we knew exactly what we were letting ourselves in for. The 13 tracks compiled below make for a furious, raucous listen; one …
With their debut album, Hybrid Theory, re-released for this year’s Record Store Day, Liz Ward took a look at the pre-adolescent musical zeitgeist formed by Linkin Park at the start of the 21st century. Here, she details how though the band and herself have taken greatly differing musical …
Willy Moon had my attention from the moment I realised his name is Willy Moon. A name with star quality – and vaguely amusing, don’t ya’ think? A definite change from his forgettable birth-identity, William Sinclair, to something reflecting his music – music that is anything but easily forgotten and …
Drum roll please. More secrets have been revealed.
Secret Garden Party have just unveiled a whole host of new acts for their 2013 festival leading with a UK exclusive performance by Regina Spektor. She performed back when she was a new name on the scene in 2005 and has …
Australian indie singer Sarah Blasko already has an established career behind her. Since going solo in 2002, after fronting Acquiesce, she has released multiple albums and toured extensively around Australia, the US, Canada and here in the UK. Her most recent track ‘God Fearing’ strips everything back to basics exposing …
Back in November, Secret Garden Party revealed that their theme for 2013 was ‘Superstition’. Think black cats, ladders, horse shoes, four leaf clovers and… nope, I haven’t got anymore.
Today we bring you the auspicious, see what I did there, reveal of the lineup for the event in July. Headliners …
There’s a dark ebb and flow in Salford tonight, as would be expected. Numerous taxi drivers race off into the night, tyres squealing, their hands breaking into a sweat on identical leatherette steering wheels. They reassure themselves, turning right at Strangeways Prison. As they enter back into the realms of …
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