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I’ve been waiting for this record for years in the interest of full disclosure. The Gaslight Anthem has been in constant rotation on my playlists and devices since my early to mid-twenties. When they announced […]
What’s the year again? Paramore seems bigger than ever. Weezer, Avril Lavigne, Fall Out Boy and Green Day are selling out stadiums worldwide. Pop punks favourite trio are back together, releasing One More Time – […]
To appreciate the Goo Goo Dolls, one must have an appreciation for dichotomy. Signed to Metal Blade Records in 1985, the trio from Buffalo, New York, started life as a fast and loose punk rock […]
In June this year, Rival Sons released their first album in over four years with Darkfighter, the first of a two-part split double album. Darkfighter was evidence of a worked-on and polished signature Rival Sons […]
Folk-punk outfit Skinny Lister releases their sixth album, Shanty Punk, reflecting the band’s journey to their present circumstances. Frontman Dan Hepinstall explains, “‘Shanty Punk’ is our concept album – and the concept is Skinny Lister. It’s […]
On this, their third album, Amsterdam’s finest Pip Blom, change direction yet maintain their wonderful and vivacious indie-pop sound. Following Boat (2019) and Welcome Break (2021), their new album Bobbie was crafted on computers and […]
When multi-instrumentalist Mike Skinner’s project The Streets released their first LP in 2002, apart from offering a fresh, vibrant sound, its success was also being able to capture the zeitgeist. Over 20 years later, cultural […]
The Menzingers, a Philadelphia-based US band, are back with their seventh studio album, Some Of It Was True, featuring 13 new tracks. The band worked with producer Brad Cook (Bon Iver, The War on Drugs, […]
Austin, Texas-based dark rock/shoegaze artist Lauren Lakis releases her new album, A Fiesta and a Hell, via Green Witch Recordings. Recorded in Austin, the album was produced by Carey McGraw, mixed by Elliott Frazier, and […]
On what will be his 10th studio album and first since 2020, Sufjan Stevens returns with Javelin. An album marking the departure from recent experimental projects such as ‘Ascension’ and ‘Convocations’, and a return to […]
The sophomore effort from Slow Pulp, Yard, builds on the hugely promising groundwork laid by their fine debut effort Moveys, which was released in 2020. Yard continues the themes of introspective reflection, only this time […]
How many people can say by age 21 that they have toured and collaborated with Stormzy and Drake before even releasing their debut LP? With her debut LP Lost & Found taking five years to […]
Blonde Redhead, made up of Kazu Makino and Italian twin brothers Amedeo and Simone Pace, releases their new album, Sit Down For Dinner, their first studio album in eight years. The album’s title carries a […]
For this, Teenage Fanclub’s eleventh LP, the now quintet, returned to Rockfield Studios in the Welsh countryside, where they recorded Howdy! in the late nineties. Whilst the veterans only have one top twenty hit to […]
On September 22, multi-instrumentalist Michael Lovett, who works under the moniker NZCA Lines, drops his fourth musical outing with the EP Universal Heartbreak. It has been three years since the release of NZCA Line’s critically […]
In April this year, when Explosions in the Sky announced their first North American tour since 2019, the excitement was matched with a sense of worry that it would be their last as it was […]
After releasing her much-admired debut album, Pohorylle, in 2021, Americana singer-songwriter Margo Cilker releases her sophomore album, Valley of Heart’s Delight, whose title signifies Cilker’s California heritage, where she grew up in the Santa Clara […]
My first encounter with Ash may be similar to many folks. I heard “Girl from Mars” in 1995 and thought, “What a fine-sounding bunch of minstrels these are. I must go away to my local […]
It is not every day you get to review an album by someone who is a musician, author, actor, director, producer and horse breeder. You see… I bet you didn’t know William Shatner was an […]
Five years after his last studio album, Ta-ku returns with his latest full-length release, Songs to Come Home To. Anyone paying attention to Australia’s lo-fi hip-hop scene over the last decade will undoubtedly have noticed […]