My Kind of Town: Lunar Sounds on Leeds
“In space, no-one can hear you scream.” So the tagline goes anyway. But we can dismiss that claim as the work of those so-called ‘experts’ we keep [...]
Features
Couch Potatoes: DiabloFurs on their favourite films
Straight out of Notts, DiabloFurs have been catching a lot of local attention with their hot take on post-punk pop scuzz. With a couple of well received singles in the bank, [...]
Chapter & Verse: Be Like Pablo
Los Angeles. Florida. These are the natural homes of arena-sized power pop. You need a bit of sunshine to accompany all those chunky riffs and soda pop lyrics about girls and [...]
Life at the Typeface: Desperate Journalist interviewed
The stock of what we identify as traditional indie rock is not at historically high levels. At least critically, ‘landfill indie’ has become almost synonymous [...]
Thinking about Tom Petty’s voice
Consider ‘American Girl’ by Tom Petty. The final track on his eponymous debut, ‘American Girl’ is built on a pretty standard pop-rock model. It sounds [...]
My Kind Of Town: Pillow Queens on Dublin
Exeter’s Specialist Subject Records have been quietly accumulating a roster of some note lately, with acts such as Muncie Girls and Great Cynics increasingly pulling in [...]
The return of Twin Peaks: Lemuria interview
Back – way back – in the midsts of time, we used to publish a little Twin Peaks fanzine/newsletter thing; a youthful endeavour that not very many people read but which [...]
The return of Twin Peaks: John Thorne interview
Back – way back – in the midsts of time, we used to publish a little Twin Peaks fanzine/newsletter thing; a youthful endeavour that not very many people read but [...]
Bass No Treble: The Lucid Dream interviewed
There’s more than a pinch of truth in the idea that to prove yourself, you need to get a little distance from those closest to you. Win over strangers and you might [...]
Much Too Much: the Curse of the Double Album
The history of recorded music has been one of continuous expansion of the capacity of the medium. The world’s first million-selling record, ‘Vesti La Giubba’ as sung by [...]
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