Latest single reviews


Tame-Impala

Tame Impala

Lucidity
Tame Impala rise from the distant city of Perth, Australia. The 4-piece play hazy stoner rock and on this showing expect them to join the long list of great Aus... Read more...

Ke$ha

Ke$ha

Take It Off
Anyone who still has any doubts on what Ke$ha’s message is (party, party and party) just take a listen to her new single, ‘Take It Off’. It won’t take you long ... Read more...

Pendulum

Pendulum

The Island
Beware the ‘Radio Edit’ version of this single – the original is soooooo much more – well, everything. Concentrating on the original, the beats are dense and... Read more...

Hurts

Hurts

Wonderful Life
Manchester duo Hurts have already had a great start to the year, after coming in at Number 4 on the BBC Sound of 2010 poll. And after hearing 'Wonderful Life' ... Read more...

Brandon-Flowers

Brandon Flowers

Crossfire
The Killers’ Brandon Flowers has just released “Crossfire”, the first single from his debut solo album “Flamingo”. Read more...

Ghostlight

Ghostlight

Photographs
Ghostlight are a London via Cambridge 4-piece who play dreary melodic rock, with Photographs the first single to be taken from their yet named debut album. Read more...

Joe-Echo

Joe Echo

Wonderful Way / The Heart That Knows Desire singles
Ciaran Gribbins is in a good position right now: rebranded as Joe Echo, and fresh off the back of a great summer - including playing alongside the likes of Paul... Read more...

Ben-Dalby

Ben Dalby

Champagne
Ben Dalby’s fourth single is a marked change from his Doctor Can single which wouldn’t have been out of place on the Ashes to Ashes soundtrack. Champagne is an... Read more...

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Latest album reviews


Lobi-Traore

Lobi Traore

Rainy Season Blues
The back-story to this album is tragic and deeply moving but that should not, on its own, lead you to this album. What should lead to this album is the brillian... Read more...

Syriana

Syriana

The Road To Damascus
The album starts out slightly better than it finishes but there isn’t a bad moment in the whole hour that this album kept me entranced. Syriana have made a rea... Read more...

The-Pretty-Reckless

The Pretty Reckless

Light Me Up
Taylor Momsen from Gossip Girl is the latest teen TV star to try and cross over to music. She is no Miley or Britney though; instead she's a girl that wants to... Read more...

The-Lucinda-Belle-Orchestra

The Lucinda Belle Orchestra

My Voice & 45 Strings
Lucinda Bell is not short of experience having toured and recorded with the Pet Shop Boys, Rufus Wainwright, Annie Lennox and Missy Elliott. She even survived ... Read more...

Little-Fish

Little Fish

Baffled and Beat
There’s not a lot to Little Fish, just Juju Sophie on vocals/guitar and Nez Greenaway on Drums, but by gum do they rock. They’ve been around a little while, bu... Read more...

Govt-Mule

Gov't Mule

Mulennium
The ‘Mule’ played three sets at the Roxy in Atlanta Georgia on Millennium eve and rumours have been around ever since about this being one of those shows that p... Read more...

Chuck-Owston

Chuck Owston

A Gallery Of Rogues
One might not associate Pennsylvania with highwaymen, grave robbers and other macabre individuals, but these are the inspirations of Pittsburgh-based folk-rocke... Read more...

One-Night-Only

One Night Only

One Night Only
One Night Only released their debut album back in January 2008, and it quickly went Gold, and spawning the huge hit single Just For Tonight. They followed this ... Read more...

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Latest live reviews


80s-Rewind-Festival

80s Rewind Festival

Henley-On-Thames
You'd be forgiven for thinking you'd been transported back in time if you'd happened to have visited Henley-On-Thames last weekend. A sea of neon pink and fing... Read more...

We-Are-Scientists

We Are Scientists

Topman CTRL - Audio, Brighton
Imagine, for a moment, a more melodic incarnation of the Distillers. Imagine less distortion, but a similarly visceral performance. Well in that style came Your... Read more...

Festibelly

Festibelly

New Forest
Deep in the heart of the New Forest, a new festival to add to the heaving summer calendar is brewing. One day of music and fun amidst the trees, with a smart li... Read more...

Klaxons

Klaxons

@ Heaven, London
The Klaxons are officially back and if the furore and climbing sales for their new album have failed to convince you as such, their performance at Heaven tonigh... Read more...

Skinny-Lister

Skinny Lister

Live @ The Lock Tavern Camden Town
What a blistering night and what a complete surprise – I left the Lock Tavern feeling as though I’d gone ten rounds with the England rugby scrum but with a smil... Read more...

V-Festival

V Festival

Weston Park, Stafford
With arguably the finest musical line-up of the summer, this years two day V Festival proved too much of a temptation to resist. Read more...

Mark-Butcher

Mark Butcher

The Bull's Head Barnes
The true test of an artist is, for me at least, whether he or she can cut it live when they don’t have all the toys around, no ‘do-overs’ and if they balls it u... Read more...

Jimi-Hendrix

Jimi Hendrix

Hendrix in Britain, Handel House Museum
Jimi Hendrix’s flat viewing was a surreal experience as we entered 23 Brook Street, a previous London home of the legendary 60s guitar pioneer. Read more...

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