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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 […]

Ezra Furman has been on the music scene since 2006 when he started out in four-piece rock band Ezra Furman & the Harpoons and released the critically acclaimed album Banging Down The Doors. 3 studio albums later […]

Sauna Youth’s ‘Transmitters’ is a track that can only be described as getting hit in the face, but in a good way. The jittery, upbeat punkiness of the song is pounded out from the speedy but steady drums and […]

Despite studying towards my English Literature degree, most of the life-changing books I’ve read were written by authors that are, well, anything but English. I am dubious as to what that might say about me – I […]

Taken from her forthcoming EP Pools To Bathe In, 19 year old London-based artist The Japanese House has just released her debut single ‘Still’.

Co-produced by George Daniel and Matty Healy of The 1975, the […]

This September will be a huge step in my life and my future career. I will finally be going to university. Living away from home may be tough for some but I am relishing the prospect of newfound freedom away from […]

Paul McCartney’s second solo album, ‘McCartney II’, is an underrated hidden gem of the 1980’s. Whilst the album reached number 1 in the UK, it is usually forgotten amongst McCartney’s extensive back catalogue of […]

So we all know the deal. Your friends are due round in five minutes yet you’re bouncing around your bedroom, belting your heart out into a hairbrush as you sing…. One Direction?! Mika?!! ABBA?!!!!  We all have t […]

IS TROPICAL, a four-piece band originating from London, is on the road to releasing their third full length album, Black Anything. Not wanting to take the traditional route in releasing the album, the band decided […]

Being from a family of passionate and diverse music fans, including an opinionated punk, a long-term emo music devotee and a ex-indie DJ, I’ve certainly had a lot of ‘musical phases’ over the years. Frankly, I […]

‘That’s enough. Now this book is yours’. This is how Charles Bukowski ended his introduction to Ask the Dust, John Fanté’s second novel, the third chronologically in the Arturo Bandini saga. The Bandini books ar […]

The music industry is vicious. It is competitive, it is ever-changing and it demands a lot of artists and their labels. Fighting to keep your name alive isn’t always achievable, and all too often great bands are […]

In Case You Missed It: Film News is back once again to fill you in on all the latest stories from the silver screen. In this edition, we’ll be covering the loss of a monumental figure of both film and television, […]

Just like it’s predecessor, episode 3 ‘Warrior’s Fate’ follows immediately after ‘The Wanderer’, and this is not a bad thing. Not a bad thing at all. ‘Warrior’s Fate’ mixed the strengths of the last two episodes, […]

Due to the band’s emergence alongside the likes of Peace and Swim Deep, Jaws are often (wrongly) revered as the runts of the Birmingham indie wave. If you were to witness one of the group’s live shows, however, […]

Now, I’m not the biggest Kings Of Leon fan – not by a long shot. However, I distinctly remember their album Youth and Young Manhood being one of the first ‘guitar heavy’ albums I bought and immediately loved. ‘Red […]

It’s approaching that time of the year again. Summer, festival season. Line ups will be completed soon, if not already, and decisions must be made which one to go to. Planning what to take to a festival can be […]