Sound City 2015: The Latest

Liverpool's Sound City has already got a very good line up behind it at the moment and it is about to get bigger and better with it's latest announcements. 15 new bands have been added to the festival bill all bringing something completely different and creating a line up that really does offer something for …

Live Review: Leeds Festival 2013 – Saturday

With Reading and Leeds being the end of the summer and the end of the touring schedules for many bands it is the perfect place for them to have fun and put in one last brilliant set and make some good memories for themselves and the fans. And though I only attended for a day …

Live Review: PEACE at The Leadmill, Sheffield.

PEACE, SuperfoodThe Leadmill, Sheffield.19th April 2013.Tonight’s only support act Superfood had a very PEACE vibe going on and went down very well those who arrived early to see them. References to a lot of early 90’s alt/UK guitar bands with one song sounding very much like Garbage. Slow, drawn out vocals, layers of interesting guitar …

tracks of the week #5

Florence and The Machine - HowlThe urgency of the vocals, the fast pounding drums and dramatic strings creates a song so full of emotion. It's a really intense track and for me the stand out track of her debut. Zomby - With LoveA brilliantly ambient track with some really good but really weird sounds. It …

music update #19

It was reported last week that The Horrors are working on a new album. Speaking to NME the band revealed that sessions for the recording of the 4th album are well underway and the album could well be released this year, stating that the album should be out in September. Tom Cowan has said that …

Album Review: PEACE – In Love.

PEACEIn LoveColumbiaThere has been a lot of talk and a lot of hype surrounding PEACE over the past few months after they landed a major label record deal and now the band has made a debut worthy of all the media attention that has surrounded them. Opening with the atmospheric ‘Higher Than the Sun’ with …

tracks of the week #1

Long time readers of this blog will remember this feature that I used to do pretty much every week just sort of tagged onto the end of other posts about fashion or music. Now I've decided to bring it back mainly because I miss writing it and it will be a good place for me …

music update #14

PEACE released their album artwork [see above] to the world last week, coincidently for an album titled 'In Love' they released their album artwork on Valentine's Day. The band have worked on their debut album with Jim Abiss and is due to be released on 25th March. The band also announced a long UK tour …

albums to look forward to in 2013.

I've done a couple of these posts before where I look at some of the albums I'm looking forward to this year. 2013 is year jam packed with releases to look forward to for me and there is plenty of new music with debuts from some promising new acts and new studio albums from plenty …

music update #12

Monday night saw the announcement of 2013's Bestival line up, it's their 10th year and so far they have a bill to fit such a huge occasion. Headlining Saturday night is Snoop Dogg and regardless of whether you love his music or not you have to admit that having him play there is a pretty …