James Reynolds

On 2 March 1979, the No. 2 Reactor Unit on Three Mile Island – some way inland of Philadelphia – went into meltdown, spewing radiation into the environment. Forty-three years on, no injury or death has been […]

Online streaming blossomed through the pandemic, with time spent on subscription services doubling through April 2020.

According to Ofcom, video streaming platforms brought in 12 million new users through the […]

Last summer I wrote an article on the latest record by The Strokes and how it looked to move past the legacy of their 2001 debut. Turning twenty-four in the days that followed, I noted that Julian Casablancas, […]

Nego True returns with his sublime blend of rap and spoken word artistry on his sophomore album Before I Fall in Love Again.

On the release of his sophomore album through his official Twitter account, Nego […]

Fans of Washington-based four-piece Car Seat Headrest will welcome the release of two new EPs this month.

On Tuesday 22 June, the band surprised listeners with nine new tracks over two records, directly […]

Last Summer, a friend and I were turned upside down over Ophiuchus, the newly discovered thirteenth zodiac sign. Every news outlet had written about this astrological shift, people began searching for their […]

Maybe this is the answer: maybe the answer is not to get trapped in questions of whether you are looking too far forward or are stuck in the past, but instead to simply carry on doing something. Greta Van Fleet […]

With their tenth album, The Black Keys are ready to look back on a 20-year career with a tribute to their formative influences. Largely improvised behind the scenes, there is little that new album Delta Kream […]

Death From Above 1979 are here to stay. This is the message that bassist Jesse F. Keeler and drummer and vocalist Sebastien Grainger seem keen to leave.

After dropping a stone-cold classic in 2004 w […]

Three track EP Agua is the latest instalment from Bogotá’s premier fusion band, Bomba Estéreo. In a delayed sweep away from 2017’s long-player Ayo, the group’s first feeler of upcoming album Deja is a clear stat […]

The Dirty Nil are not a subtle band. Since the release of their previous album, 2018’s Master Volume, they have proudly blasted out thunderous hard rock riffs with the speed and spirit of a garage punk band. U […]

It seems to miss the point to say that lockdown has merely inflamed – and not caused – the problems of the last nine months.

To view the epidemics of domestic abuse and mental health as being solely indicative […]

Headlines today look cynically upon Argentina, having swaddled itself in economic crisis in a stagnant trend of overspending dating back seventy years. Coverage has frequently pointed to reckless policy and the […]

Sílvia Pérez Cruz has been clear in the past about her love of storytelling. “The song has to have a story that I believe in and I can make my own. I think I have that influence from my mother. My mother is a g […]

Muddy Waters’ 1950 arrangement ‘Rollin’ Stone’ spawned inspiration in Bob Dylan and in the Rolling Stones before the magazine, and between these four a two-thousand-year-old saying made an unlikely home in rock […]

It has been twenty-one years since the release of Alkibar, Afel Bocoum’s wandering debut so titled to mean ‘messenger of the great river’. Those two decades have seen Bocoum’s Mali transform from a fledg […]

Neck Deep’s 2017 release, In Bloom, marked a pivotal evolution of the band’s sound, moving away from the more generic conventions of the pop-punk genre. The heavier sounds of past releases, such as their 2013 […]

As temperatures rose to the low 40s in Spain, the four Madrileñas chose the last day of July to release their jangly rendition of Clash favourite ‘Spanish Bombs’. 

The song was first released four years after […]

On Saturday 25 July, the UK government announced that those returning from Spain would face a 14 day self-isolation period, effective from Monday 27 July. This comes after reports of spikes in the number of […]

It has been a busy year for Nicolás Jaar. The producer returned to his roots with a mid-tempo industrial noise album in February, before turning that on its head with Cenizas in March. This had always been a […]