Led by guitarist and singer Patrick Stickles, NY/NJ’s Titus Andronicus—named after a play by William Shakespeare—have a raucous and individual take on punk rock that embraces the fast and loud parts of the formula but leaves room for indie rock, garage rock, classic rock, and folk influences as the band careen through it all with… Read more »
A multi-instrumentalist, Zajac grew up in Edinburgh, singing and playing Scotland’s oldest national instrument, the Clarsach Harp. Between 2016 and 2020 she fronted the folk-blues trio Avocet, before moving onto the solo acoustic work which so beautifully shaped the songs from the aforementioned 2022 debut. It was while studying English Literature at Glasgow University that… Read more »
WIRE are the definitive post-punk group. Since their inception they’ve maintained a reputation for creating music that stretches the rock form whilst simultaneously editing it down to its essence. With their gift for crafting songs that perfectly balance experimentation and accessibility, WIRE were recently hailed by the Quietus as “one of the most consistent British… Read more »
Los Campesinos! formed in Cardiff in 2006 and Sick Scenes is their sixth full-length release following Hold On Now, Youngster… (2008), We Are Beautiful, We Are Doomed (2008), Romance is Boring (2010), Hello Sadness (2011) and NO BLUES (2013). The band consists of Gareth (vocals), Tom (lead guitar), Neil (guitar), Kim (vocals, keys), Rob (keys),… Read more »
Sam achieved instant cult hero status when Late Of The Pier broke big, the band shining a light on his wandering talents. Bruised by hard touring and the record business, he began to retreat, embracing a nomadic working style oblivious to space and time. Inji dropped in 2015, establishing his off-kilter pop sound as a… Read more »
Less than a decade ago, Josh Lloyd and Tom McFarland were two friends with what felt like the impossible dream of one day seeing their name above the door of their local venue, Shepherd’s Bush Empire. That was an ambition that they achieved when touring in support of their 2014 self-titled debut album. They went… Read more »
Formed in 2010 in Montclair, NJ by childhood friends Evan Stephens Hall and drummer Zack Levine, Pinegrove was named after a “beautiful and regulated, yet natural and messy” grid of pine trees on Evan’s college grounds. ‘The Pinegrove’ was a place of introspection, repose and spiritual serenity, and a place he had established to be… Read more »
‘Making A Door Less Open’, the latest album from Car Seat Headrest and the first set of brand new songs since 2016’s Teens Of Denial. Created over the course of four years, ‘Making a Door Less Open’ is the result of a collaboration between Car Seat Headrest, led by Will Toledo, and 1 Trait Danger,… Read more »
Before Montreal singer-songwriter Gus Englehorn was signed to Secret City Records he lived in a cabin in the woods and wrote Dungeon Master, the cutest, heaviest, strangest rock’n’roll record you will hear this year. Before he made the record he lived in Salt Lake City, Utah, where he fell in love at first sight with… Read more »