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OK, so you’ve seen the headlines. You’ve heard it on the news. You’ve heard other people talking about it. But as far as you can tell, the Middle East is a disturbingly complex hotbed of political and military […]

With the recent release of Chasing Yesterday, Noel Gallagher and his High Flying Birds flew straight back onto the music scene and straight to number 1. He was quick to announce this as he explained “In case you […]

Have you ever dreamed about a life with considerably more cash? I’m pretty sure we’d all be lying if we claimed we hadn’t thought about what our lives would be like with endless streams of money. That’s the world […]

To drink in the bars and pubs of Manchester on Monday evening was to be enveloped in a sea of parkas, polo shirts and sideburns. Britpop anthems poured from every speaker. The city’s prodigal son had returned and […]

Have you ever listened to a cheery, upbeat song, realising soon after you hit play that the message of the lyrics is far from chirpy? Maybe you can think of a dreary, slow song you thought was depressing upon […]

The latest track by Baltimore rockers All Time Low is a special one. If ‘Something’s Gotta Give’ wasn’t enough to convince you that their new album Future Hearts, set for release April 7th, is an album worth […]

April 18th will mark The UK’s eighth annual Record Store Day, where independently owned record shops throughout the country will come together with artists to celebrate music and the importance it has. Special […]

Yak, a three-piece band from London, are sure to be big this year and are well on their way to achieving their inevitable success; they’re already signed up to support The Strokes in their Hyde Park gig in June, […]

London born-and-bred Freddie Dickson (along with his band The Guard) are quietly but surely making their way up the musical ranks. With the Communion Music New Faces UK tour, Barn on The Farm Festival, Live at […]

Q: Is this really a song based around a famous type of trainer?
A: If expecting ‘yes’, you’ll be thoroughly disappointed.

As the first single from Hot Chip’s upcoming sixth album Why Make Sense?, ‘Huarache […]

Sometime around the decline of Britpop, two romanticists happened upon each other in atypical circumstances, before conceiving a common dream that shaped the rest of their lives. In 2002, with firm foundations in […]

Everybody has one band that picked them up when they were down and taught them to carry on. Everybody has one band that changed their perspectives on what would otherwise be a possibly painful situation and teach […]

Dublin-born singer-songwriter Conor Dardis’ storytelling has remained humbly undiscovered so far on Soundcloud, but with songs as promising as ‘Accelerator’, it is only a matter of time before a wider audience […]

After touring with US band Ex Hex in February, Princess released their third single ‘Black Window’ on March 2nd. The Dublin-based experimental rock/noise/indie duo has put together a hypnotising melody infused […]

Title: Persuasion

Author: Jane Austen

What I think so far: Whilst not the ‘cult-classic’ that is Pride and Prejudice, Persuasion holds the advantage that the reader will enter into it with few pre-conceived […]

It Follows has been living off festival buzz for quite some time now, and for good reason – in a genre that frequently attracts cynical filmmaking, a unique piece is quite something. The film centers on Maika […]

Worlds away from the venue they had played the previous evening with fellow Manchester band, The Charlatans, I got to spend some time chatting with a rapidly emerging band Blossoms in the small back room of York […]

Yesterday was March 8th – International Women’s Day: the day we have an excuse to express our love for women proudly and freely, so here at The Indiependent, we’ve given a shout out to our favourite girl group […]

It’s quite difficult, I think, to always know the right words to describe music. All too often, I find myself using ‘very’ or ‘awfully’ or something along those lines, in the place of anything quantifiably […]

Tula, a Berlin-based group from Sweden, have released a new single ‘River’, and it is beautifully haunting and catchy. The band’s sound is a fascinating mixture of many magnificent artists; vocals which would fit […]