Touring tends to be very high up on the list of things that bands want to get into, with touring abroad being one of the ultimate goals. But how to raise the cash? Steve Lawson recently toured America on a budget by staying and performing in people’s h …

July 21 2011 @ Monto Water Rats, London. Whenever I go to Monto Water Rats, I feel an overwhelming sense of being way too old to be in there, followed by a second wave of nausea associated with younger people ruining the gig for me. Then I shake it off …

The term ‘space-rock’ tends to conjure two images in my mind. The first is a glittery flaming meteor hurtling through space, on top of which stands a roughly-hewn stage, straddled majestically by bearded men, hair flowing in the wind, playing flying Vs …

In our second guest article from music critic Amanda Penlington, she follows on from her article on the newspaper/postcard releases of Radiohead and Wild Beasts by talking about how it’s possible to remain firmly within the digital download medium and …

In an exciting music/art/advertising crossover Dry The River are using three-dimensional posters to advertise their latest single ‘No Rest’. The posters have been designed and created by artist Xavier Barrade using foam and paper and displayed at a var …

Reviewing the second long play album from this duo from Leeds, in my case, began with heavy research filed under ‘Google is my best friend’ simply to be able to understand what on Earth this is all about? Not only the do band’s name and album title sou …

More than a few times already since I have been doing music reviews here on Echoes and Dust, I have been introduced to music and groups that the rest of the cool kids forgot to tell me about. The latest group in this genre? White Hills, a blisteringly- …

I managed to get my hands on some fantastic items on World Record Store day this year, but chances are if you were after one of the really sought after releases, you were probably disappointed. However, if you’re Liverpool based you may well have found …

The first thing to know about Juffage is that is a solo act and the one and only person behind it is Jeff T. Smith. This fact alone puts any listener’s perception of his music into a slightly different perspective, and most definitely leaves them posit …