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All Points East have announced details of a brand new show for 2025. Their newest all-day event will arrive under the moniker of ‘Provenance’, and will play host to three very special performances ...
It may only be a little over two years since alt-J released fourth album ‘The Dream’, but there’s no rest for the wicked, and vocalist Joe Newman is already working on something tantalisingly new. “We ...
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There’s a certain urgency lacking to ‘Kill My Blues’ — Tucker seems determined to tap in to a certain rage and angst, yet still manages to sound rote and homogeneous.
The Young And Lost Club is a London based (and pretty London-centric) record label that for the past five years has been specialising in the sort of guitar pop that made ‘taste-makers’ of the ...
This week’s mid-week charts are in, and Bring Me The Horizon are leading the charge with their new full-length ‘That’s That Spirit’. The Sheffield pop-metallers are just 1000 copies ahead of ...
Danish foursome Iceage have been variously described as ‘visceral’, ‘dissonant’ and, alarmingly, ‘the next big thing’. Having such a stream of journo cliches heaped upon a band so young and so anaemic ...
Bon Iver have been announced as the second headliner for next year’s All Points East festival! Justin Vernon and co will come to London’s Victoria Park to close the two week fest, and will be joined ...
It’s a very soggy field full of people who welcome The Last Dinner Party onto Reading’s Main Stage this afternoon, but it’s a field-full nevertheless. And, although the band might be more used to ...
Monomania: when the mind becomes obsessively concentrated and fixated upon one special symbol of passion. Deerhunter may not be not running melodramatically across the Yorkshire moors wailing ...
As a producer, Danger Mouse’s best material comprises of soulful electronic songs propelled by syncopated handclaps, nimble melodies and exciting intrusions of contrastingly harsh electronic ...