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Just under a week after the release of his 4th album Trick (read our review here), I headed up to Kingston for a short notice under 18s set from the one and only Jamie T, ahead of an 18+ set the same evening at […]

Reading bestsellers is something I find myself consistently behind on; this summer, I finally got around to purchasing 2012’s The Girl on the Train – Gillian Flynn’s Gone Girl. A psychological thriller that centr […]

One More Time With Feeling is Andrew Dominik’s exquisite new documentary chronicling the writing and recording of Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds’ sixteenth studio album, Skeleton Tree. It also takes a look beneath […]

Spark a conversation about innovative outfits, truly great bands, and groups that influenced a raft of modern contemporaries, and the usual responses will crop up. Nirvana? Check. My Bloody Valentine? Yes. The […]

At the complex and dream-filled age of just twenty-one, Lauren Aquilina is an artist who shares her experiences of love and adolescence through sophisticated lyricism. With her fingers gliding over a piano, […]

London’s iconic Fabric nightclub is set to close down permanently, following a near seven-hour hearing at Islington Town Hall that ended in the early hours of this morning (Sept 7).

The famous music venue […]

It’s a difficult one to navigate, popular music. And for female artists in particular, finding identity in an industry currently quite limited in what it’s willing to pass makes it all the more difficult. It […]

High Rise are an unsigned metal-core band influenced by Underoath, A Day to Remember, and The Ghost Inside. Although they formed in 2014, they have used the last two years to perfect their sound. This resulted in […]

I’ve spent the past day deliberating over how quite to transcribe such a special evening into words, and I’m yet to find a way to do the Jarman brothers justice … but here we go.

Not too long ago, Wakef […]

Reading & Leeds has become a right of passage for any self-respecting teenager, regardless of their taste in music. However over the years the festival has seen itself branch out into a vibrant outlet, where you […]

To be socially in tune with the world around you is one thing, but being able to translate that level of consciousness into a piece of music requires a certain skillset, and it appears Declan McKenna has cracked […]

On the final Saturday of Winterthur Musikfestwochen the weather couldn’t be better. I headed to Steinberggasse, grabbed a drink and waited to see what the evening had in store.

While I’d never heard of Elias b […]

If you’ve ever read a Bret Easton Ellis novel – and it doesn’t have to be any one in particular – you’ll be aware of the characters he presents. From Clay in Less than Zero to Sean Bateman in The Rules of Attrac […]

If you were looking for the perfect song that summed up office-based banality, a track that should easily be in the running is Fountains of Wayne’s ‘Hey Julie’. Not only does it discuss the grim event […]

Sophie Longshaw is a twenty-year-old singer-songwriter from Sheffield (based in London) premiering her track ‘Let’s Go To The Beach’ today on The Indiependent.

Inspired by her trips to the North East coast […]

For the month of September, sports fans are spoiled for choice with the titles on offer. Away from the pitches, courts and racetracks, there is another month full of releases to suit any and all […]

For the month of September, sports fans are spoiled for choice with the titles on offer. Away from the pitches, courts and racetracks, there is another month full of releases to suit any and all […]

Up and coming Swindon based four-piece, Misfires, have recently released their debut single entitled ‘22’.

The track launches into an energetic guitar riff and distinct vocals which are immediately upl […]

Up and coming Swindon based four-piece, Misfires, have recently released their debut single entitled ‘22’.

The track launches into an energetic guitar riff and distinct vocals which are immediately upl […]