2016 in Music: Staff Picks
Here we are again. Interesting times, and all that. 2016: the year we mused upon the bigger things. Life, death, war, politics. Everything at once, and not very much to cheer [...]
Features
My Kind Of Town: Rosie Crow on Cornwall
Outsider art. There are connotations, usually to do with the state of mind of the creator. But it can also be simpler than that. Rosie Crow lives somewhere that’s [...]
Chapter & Verse: Young Romance
Ah… the promise of Young Romance. Their debut single, ‘Pale’ was a teen kitchen sink drama in minature, Shelagh Delaney in under 120 seconds of buzzsaw [...]
In Conversation: Dumb Numbers’ Adam Harding
In August, Dumb Numbers (AKA Adam Harding And Friends) dropped their second album, II. A warm blur of genres and sounds, the album built on the expansive template of the [...]
Oasis’ ‘Be Here Now’: What Happens When You Run Out Of Dreams?
I feel nothing but affection for the Oasis of 1993-1997. It was refreshing, at the time, to hear songs of gentle hope and fortitude that spoke to any small town/inner [...]
In conversation: Courtesy Tier’s Omer Leibowitz
Within the musical aorta of Brooklyn resides Courtesy Tier, a new age blues rock band that blends the technicality and finish of high art with the rugged energy of southern [...]
My Kind Of Town: Kamikaze Girls on Leeds
A well-received debut EP, Sad, has seen Kamikaze Girls (vocalist and guitarist Lucinda Livingstone; drummer Conor Dawson) draw positive notice elsewhere on the digital [...]
Welcome Pack: DiabloFurs
The sound down on the street is scuzz ‘n roll, where the guitars hang low and the pedals are turned up to helleven. Nottingham’s DiabloFurs know the score. They [...]
Chapter & Verse – Jennifer Otter Bickerdike
Dead musicians, eh? These figures that continue to dance around our lives, talking to us, playing on our screens – often they seem to be more in our thoughts than [...]
Leave those kids alone: the perils of performance and parenthood
Huddersfield, Christmas Day, 1977. The national firemen’s strike hit its ninth week. The Sex Pistols – in the midst of the media witch hunt portraying them as the evil [...]
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