Brighton is renowned for being a melting pot of quality musicians, enticing rising artists far and wide with its sparkling DIY music scene. The Great Escape Festival amplifies this seaside musical microcosm, showcasing rising musicians […]
Your guide to Leeds’ independent record stores
Record stores are a mecca for true music lovers, from the middle-aged men in tatty leather jackets and John Lennon specs by the collectables to the students by the recent indie-releases; the boys in Docs […]
Pale Waves: “We want to have a number one album”
It seems that everything Dirty Hit takes under its roof turns to gold, quite literally in the case of Wolf Alice recently hitting gold record status with their debut album My Love is Cool. Home […]
King Nun: “We wake up and half of Pale Waves are in our beds”
The Brudenell Social Club in the middle of the day, with its aged day-drinkers gathering dust in the corner and Magic FM playing overhead, doesn’t quite have the same iconic feel to it as it […]
Single review: ‘Somebody Better’ and ‘Cadillac’ by Black Honey
Over the past few weeks Black Honey have been teasing fans with pictures of them recording their highly anticipated debut album. On Thursday evening, they blessed us with not just one, but two new tracks […]
American Teen by Khalid
With his debut album American Teen, Khalid establishes himself as a new voice for the disaffected youth, as well as proving himself to be a breakthrough artist with roofless potential and refreshing originality. The syrupy […]
Volcano by Temples
Four years since their debut, Temples are back with their lysergic sophomore album Volcano, and it sounds like something The Beatles would produce if they were fed more psychedelics and handed a synth machine. Album […]
‘How Can I Compete’ by The Magic Gang
Airing live on Radio 1, The Magic Gang are back with a hot new single and promises of new EP “at some point in April”. ‘How Can I Compete’ dropped on Monday evening and, with […]
Declan McKenna @ Brudenell Social Club, 29/01/2017
After being compelled by DIY Magazine’s hype over 18-year old Declan McKenna, I found myself stepping into a crowd of bright-eyed, glitter-clad indie kids and feeling as if I was crashing a GCSE results day […]
Dream Wife @ Headrow House, 21/01/17
On the day women across the globe marched together in solidarity, there was no better soundtrack than the gloriously empowering and intoxicatingly unapologetic noise of Dream Wife at Headrow House. Even if their sound isn’t […]
Preview: Dream Wife @ Headrow House, 21/1/17
Headlining DIY Magazines ‘Hello 2017’ tour, incendiary threesome Dream Wife will blast their punk infected pop at Headrow House this Saturday (21st). The three met at art college in Brighton, forming Dream Wife as an […]
Youth Is Only Ever Fun In Retrospect by Sundara Karma
Throughout 2016, Sundara Karma built up rapid hype that saw them filling tents at Reading and Leeds, selling out headline tours and being relentlessly played at Fuzzy Logic on a Thursday. A week into 2017 […]