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Four years since the release of his number-one album The Awakening, British singer-songwriter James Morrison is back. ‘Demons’ is the first offering from Morrison’s upcoming album Higher Than Here and is a […]

Gogglebox has been back on our screens for a few weeks now, and with the start of the show’s sixth season, The Indiependent thought it fitting to explore what exactly it is that makes the Channel 4 show so e […]

In October 2014, Lower Than Atlantis released their eponymous fourth studio album, which saw the band consciously enter the world of mainstream rock. It was the band’s highest charting album in the UK and a c […]

Having not released an official single since 2012, it’s refreshing to know that Simple Plan are back. Although it wouldn’t take a genius to work out that their sound has drastically changed over the years, […]

Following their very enjoyable but perhaps slightly cautious debut album All Our Favourite Stories, a three year absence from production probably left many fans of the Nottingham quintet anticipating, or even […]

When entering my Junior year of high school, I heard the marvellous musical genius of Ella Yelich O’Connor (a.k.a Lorde) for the very first time. Her breakthrough hit, ‘Royals’, was undoubtedly the sound of the […]

It’s difficult to believe that this year’s Glastonbury festival marked the first occasion on which Florence and the Machine have headlined a major British festival; this fact is even harder to believe considering […]

Film is revolutionary. Film can change lives. Film is something which is hard to imagine our lives without. For me, film is an important part of who I am (which is such a typical cliché but it’s true no […]

Room1Fourteen, an alternative rock band working between England and Switzerland, released their debut EP Living In Dreams back in May this year. The EP is a journey infused with a wide range of rock genre […]

As ‘No Memory’ begins, the listener is set in the atmosphere of a gig with The Drink adjusting their guitars and playing their grasping, guitar based intro. Seconds later the angelic vocals of Dearbhla Minogue cap […]

English Literature is a popular subject to take at school level and beyond. In these wonderful lessons, pieces of literature are studied in varying detail, depending on the level of qualification the student has […]

After the departure of New Order’s bassist and founding member, Peter Hook, back in 2007, it seemed like the Manchester icons’ celebrated tenure was about to grind to a bitter halt. Hook constantly slated his […]

I will argue to the death that art should be free, and accessible for all.

Since the 90s, a majority of museums and galleries have been free, with only special exhibitions requiring the purchase of a ticket. […]

Patrick Gunning took these photographs of Florence & the Machine last night at Alexandra Palace in London.

The Dead Weather are back. Dirtier, fuzzier and more un-hinged than ever before. The super-group consisting of Alison Mosshart (The Kills), Jack White (The White Stripes), Dean Fertita (Queens of the Stone Age) […]

Following the release of their turbulent debut single last February, I was naturally pretty quick to dub Semantics as a band to watch in the emerging alternative music scene.

Now, the nostalgic post punk […]

After the success with her first EP ‘Grow’, reaching No. 4 in the singer/songwriter chart on iTunes and becoming the iconic song for the latest Amazon Prime advert, Frances is releasing her next EP, Let It Out, […]