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We invited Steve of Fret! and Meinkinder to build on his contribution to our Record Store Day 2012 features and tell us more about his experiences bending sounds with whatever he could find. The results are fascinating – enjoy. It began in [...]

Continuing our Hidden Currents series that examines the people behind the scenes, we talk to Mitch Booth who runs website Metal Obsession, promotes gigs and somehow finds time for a radio slot while holding down a day job. (((0))) Thanks for [...]

They’re the Brooklyn surf-poppers who are riding the crest of a wave, and are set to have their profile rise even higher when their debut EP arrives in a month. They are Fast Years, and what’s more, aside from their [...]

A little while back we were contacted by Derek from L.A. Band Decoded telling us about a series of charity fundraising gigs he was organising. We loved the idea so much, and it’s supporting some fantastic causes, that we caught [...]

There’s no getting away from it. One quick flick through the gig guides of any music magazine throws them up. You know what I’m on about…reunion tours and worse still, classic album shows. Every week another old hero of the [...]

North Wales is not renowned for producing musical gems but Deeside’s Silver/Back/Club may be about to buck that trend. Their eponymous début EP is three tracks of muscular, brooding indie rock influenced by the likes of Bloc Party and Editors. [...]

There are few venues in Australia as good as the Espy in St. Kilda for seeing live bands. Running three stages spread over three rooms at the same time, generally free or for a few bucks, it would be impossible [...]

Australian instrumental rock band Dumbsaint have recently released their debut album. It is full of intriguing, intelligent music so we sent our man down under, Gilbert Potts, to talk to bass player James and find out a bit more about [...]

Back in the days before downloads it was fairly common for a band to release two version of a single – one with b-sides and one with remixes, something that Gunning for Tamar have pulled together in this six-track release [...]

In the first of what we hope will become a series of pieces on the state of the music industry and associated topics from our team, Martyn Coppack gives us his view on how the advent of social media has [...]

I tend to rant a lot about genre classification (see: anything I’ve ever written) and how needless it is most of the time. Thus, when I saw that Sheffield’s inFictions classified themselves as ‘post-progressive’ I got a little worried about [...]

York’s Young Believers make intricate, introspective and beautiful folk tinged indie; the sort of thing that is the perfect soundtrack to staring out of the window on a rainy May morning, wondering where the spring went. We had a chat [...]

Having a bad day? Turn off the lights, sit down in your comfy chair, put ‘Let it Go’ on repeat, close your eyes and drift away to a better place. Fossil Collective will guide you there. Hailing from Leeds, England, [...]

Ever have one of those moments where you feel a string of songs on a certain album is so good that you don’t think you’ll ever be able to get past them and on to the rest of the record? [...]

In the coming months, we are going to be introducing more articles about people like Lachlan Dale, head honcho of Australia’s Art As Catharsis Records. We want to explore what it’s like to be someone who is part of the [...]

Silver/Back/Club, are a bass-guitar-drums-synth playing quartet from Deeside, Wales bustling out with their cracking debut 3-track EP. The band featured on the BBC’s Adam Walton’s playlist as he covered the Focus Wales festival in April this year where the band [...]

Devin Therriault is hung up on love, apparently. There are so many albums written about relationships and heartbreak, and all that other stuff, that to stand out, an artist really must have something unique to say. Therriault may not be [...]

It’s tempting, when on the first listen of an eagerly-awaited album, to say that it’s the best thing a band have done. This sort of knee-jerk reaction works both ways: it can either hold up upon further listens; or it [...]

Given the recent turn for the worse with the weather and feeling like we skipped spring and summer and went straight back to autumn you need an album like ‘Keep Warm … with the Warm Digits’ to well, warm the [...]

In the wake of the release of Jarek‘s second album, the wonderful ‘Tree Of The Seas’, Gilbert Potts spoke to their lead man Jared about the creative processes involved in making the record. (((o))): Leafless trees are the predominant feature [...]

Anticipation and expectation reign supreme in the Speakeasy this evening, the crowd restless but positive, aware that they’re in for a treat tonight. And boy, are they right. San Francisco’s Deafheaven are first to creep onto the stage, their reverb [...]