If you’re fortunate enough for your exams to finish in good time, London’s Field Day festival – which is extending its stay in Victoria Park for an extra day in 2014 – is the perfect blowout. […]
Music | Album review – Pharrell's G I R L
Pharrell G I R L 4/5 He’s dominated the charts, filthy rich, as popular as ever and yet Pharrell is still motivated enough to release his first solo album since 2006. It says a lot […]
Clubs | Interview – Werkha
Tom A Leah finds himself in a precarious position musically, straddling different music scenes both within his native Manchester as well as more broadly in the musical landscape as he sees it. With the forthcoming […]
Music | Album review – Schoolboy Q
Schoolboy Q Oxymoron 4/5 On ‘Control’, the infamous Big Sean track that featured Kendrick Lamar bluntly calling out the biggest names in hip-hop, we could hear Kendrick proclaiming in a mad, intentionally idiotic voice “I […]
Music | New Yorkshire – 8 Leeds bands you have to hear
With a steady flow of investment rapidly transforming the city into a prominent financial and cultural hub, the floodgates have opened for an array of eclectic talents to emerge and fill the creative spaces of venues like Brudenell […]
Music | Maximo Park are coming to the O2 – anyone else feeling nostalgic yet?
Those who harbour nostalgic feelings for the music scene of the mid-noughties may wish to head down to the O2 Academy next week, where Maximo Park will be gracing the stage with their signature dish […]
Music | Of Montreal Live
Of Montreal Gorilla,Manchester 5/5 Kevin Barnes is so much more than a frontman, he’s the mastermind behind of Montreal’s 12 albums, the centre around which every aspect of the band orbits. He has the seductive […]
Clubs | Review – Cirque Du Soul presents Aeroplane
Photo: Justin Gardner Cirque Du Soul, said to have the “travelling, collective energy of colour, magic and dance” the concept certainly does appeal. But as the hype gradually increased, I asked myself whether the club […]
Music | Warpaint Live
Warpaint O2 Academy Wednesday February 19 Sanctimonious music snobs like me will rage that good music has the power to evoke incandescent sensations. Warpaint’s sound, indebted to the astral majesty of shoegazers Slowdive, krautrock rhythm […]
Music | Why were the Brits so boring?
As the nation sat down for the 37th year running to gorge themselves on this February’s recreation of the Brit awards, it became clear that something was strikingly off. While we were up all night […]
Music | Album Review – Angel Olsen
Angel Olsen Burn Your Fire 2/5 Angel Olsen lets her captivating and emotive voice speak for itself from the very first track of her second feature length album. The scratchy, vinyl-like vocals are distorted yet […]
Music | Album Review – Beck
Beck Morning Phase 4/5 There has been a six year gap between Beck’s latest album, Morning Phase, and his last, Modern Guilt. Such a hiatus would suggest that the singer-songwriter has been leading up to […]