Wild Beasts Present Tense 4/5 After releasing three albums in four years, the Kendal four-piece put on the brakes for their latest endeavour, Present Tense; the result is a record that taps tastefully into contemporary […]
Music | Interview – Noya Rao
Leeds three-piece Noya Rao blew the audience away with a stunning performance supporting Shigeto at the Belgrave Music Hall last month. LSi caught up with keyboardist and producer Tom Henry after the show to find […]
Music | Album review – Planningtorock
Planningtorock All Love’s Legal 5/5 Almost simultaneously with the German Winter Olympic team’s multicoloured entry into the Russian national stadium, gender-bender Planningtorock (Jam Rostron) has released her new album All Love’s Legal. With various gay […]
Music | Fat White Family Live
Fat White Family Belgrave Music Hall 4/5 Imagine going to see Beyoncé and her not playing ‘Crazy in Love’ – a song that, to many, defines her. How would that make you feel? Could her […]
Music | Album Review – St. Vincent
St. Vincent St. Vincent 5/5 St. Vincent doesn’t take selfies. It’s hardly believable, one might think, while gazing at her latest self-titled album’s cover and locking eyes with Annie Clarke sitting on a throne, looking […]
Music | Cate Le Bon Live
Cate Le Bon Brudenell Social Club 5/5 Cate le Bon’s catchy, psychedelic, 60s inspired music with a west Wales lilt was musically complex and tightly performed at her gig playing to a sold out crowd […]
Music | The Boxer Rebellion Live
The Boxer Rebellion Brudenell Social Club 3/5 The Boxer Rebellion approach the stage with comfortable confidence and are enthusiastically welcomed by the packed out crowd at the Brudenell Social club. They lurch into a triptych […]
Music | Album Review – Lo-Fang
Lo-Fang Blue Film 4/5 There is a fine line between making the most of your talents and simply throwing everything you know at a project and hoping it sticks. With a classical training in cello, […]
Music | Little Comets Live
Little Comets The Cockpit 4/5 Little Comets play the kind of kitchen-sink indie that refuses to believe 2005 ever ended, all jaunty guitar riffs and anthemic choruses; their gig tonight at the Cockpit showcases the […]
Clubs – Dimensions Festival launch party Leeds
Video: Dimensions In celebration of this years Dimensions Festival, 54 launch parties are being thrown worldwide from L.A. to Athens, and with the vibrant electronic music scene in Leeds it comes as no surprise that […]
Music | Album Review – Katy B
Katy B Little Red 2/5 Although hits off her first album, On a Mission, were replayed so religiously on radio stations and Fruity Fridays that they risked becoming background noise, you would be hard pressed to say that […]
Music | Album Review – Illum Sphere
Illum Sphere Ghosts of Then and Now 4/5 Once we have confronted the Ghosts of Then and Now there is only dread. Fear for what is yet to come, the ghosts of later, if you will. It’s this […]