Charlie Gardner

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“We could have been a really good stadium band. It would have not been any good for the personalities in the band – it would have driven us all absolutely insane I would have thought. Any level of success would have made us worse people in my opinion. We could have been really good at it though. It didn’t happen and that’s that – it is what it is. It’s not a good or bad thing, just a thing. I would have liked to have made that second record though. There’s nothing wrong with being unknown, with being anonymous, it’s what almost everyone is – but try telling that to an arrogant idiot in his early twenties. . .”
Michael J Hall, Nebraska

Articles by Charlie Gardner

Exclusive Video Premiere: Emmaleen Tangleweed – Wailing Trees

Emmaleen Tangleweed’s music is more accurately described as a channelling than a song. Summoning stories of lost souls too tortured to let go, she cries and yearns as they no longer can, and yet, a silver thread of faith binds them.

Exclusive Track Premiere: Olivares – ‘Stadion’

Olivares has always lived between worlds – immersed in the chaos of noise rock, while quietly drawn to the subtle complexities of electronic sound. After years of creating experimental rock, it was the deep, hypnotic rhythms of artists like Pole, Nicolas Jaar, Nils Frahm, Caribou and Floating Points that sparked a shift in his creative direction.

Video Premiere: The Shops – ‘You’re My Favorite Drugs’

Like the lovechild of a David Lynch fever dream and a warehouse dancefloor at 3 am – The Shops are a perfect cure for anyone drawn to the mysterious corners of music.

Exclusive Video Premiere: Versus Machine – ‘Seafoam’

Versus Machine is an innovative and genre-blending rock band whose members bring together years of experience from diverse musical backgrounds. The band’s core is made up of singer/guitarist Stephen Tilley, bassist Michael James Stipe, and drummer Brian Doherty, with the group’s formation rooted in both past musical connections and newfound collaborations.

Exclusive Video Premiere: Neon Kittens – Here’s My Handle

NEON KITTENS, formed in 2022, draw their name from a misheard Ultravox lyric and are influenced by No Wave, PiL, On-U Sound, and ZE Records

Exclusive Video Premiere: Osnova – ‘Climbing Dues’

The sound of Los Angeles shoegaze band OSNOVA could still be likened to walking alone on a dark night –it strides with confidence, masking an unstable and anxious edge –the sound of forward movement that is all at once evocative, determined and enveloping

Featured Video: Deep Fade – ‘Further’

Deep Fade are Amanda Votta, Neddal Ayad, and Grey Malkin.  Their second album, Further, delves into themes of disintegration, loss, and distance, expanding on their debut Line Of Flight with a new sonic structure.

Under The Influence – Juanita Stein

Photo: Giovanna Ferin Brighton-based singer-songwriter Juanita Stein has just released her fourth solo album The Weightless Hour via Agricultural Audio. Always in demand, the Howling Bells’ front-woman has just finished a UK tour supporting Evan D …

Exclusive Video Premiere: in violet – ‘Endless Image’

Massive Attack meets panic attack with a flavour of a Purple-pink Floyd. The Murrays mint another beauty…

Exclusive Video Premiere: Light Creates Shadow – ‘Beauty for Ashes’

Portland Oregon-based heavy post-progressive band Light Creates Shadow release new single, ‘Beauty For Ashes’, their first new music since the release of the 2022 full length, Ghosts Pass Through, Running From The Body.

Under The Influence – LIZZARD

On the eve of a London headline, we asked the France-based prog-metallers to share three records that have hugely influenced their music and their new album, Mesh.

Featured Video: Juanita Stein – Motionless

Juanita Stein has released her fourth solo album The Weightless Hour via Agricultural Audio. The Howling Bells front-woman has just finished a UK tour supporting Evan Dando and is doing a series of in-store shows including one at London’s Rough Trade West this evening, before joining Travis on their UK dates in December.

Exclusive Video Premiere: Olivia Khoury – Fall Forward

Singer-songwriter and interdisciplinary artist from Montreal, Olivia Khoury unveils her newest single ‘Fall Forward’ and offers a glimpse of her evolving artistic journey. . .

Featured Video: Maud the moth – Siphonophores

I wrote “Siphonophores” on guitar, during the first lockdown, a period where I was kind of trapped between an almost empty flat in Edinburgh and Dresden. . .  I´m not a confident guitarist since I am completely self-taught, but, probably because of this, I feel that this instrument allows me to focus on aspects of the song-writing that I normally overlook when writing on piano. . .

Exclusive Video Premiere: Citizend – ‘Down’

The noirish Gothenburg duo’s journey through life’s twists and turns now continues with the release of their fourth single, ‘Down’.

Exclusive Video Premiere: Sly & The Family Drone – ‘Glistening Benevolence’

A properly noir thing, as notable for its long stretches of quiet atmosphere as it is for its pummelling skronk with, appropriately enough, a couple of very impressive drone shots!

Exclusive Track Premiere: In Covert – Death Embers

‘Death Embers’, is a fiery new track that showcases the band’s infectious energy and intensity – a genre grinder fed with gothic tinged punk, doom metal, shoegaze and industrial.

Under The Influence – Thank

Leeds’ politico post-punks share four records that have influenced their music and forthcoming new album

Exclusive Video Premiere: Citizend – ‘Grinding Bones’

Photo: Richard Bloom Citizend, a duo hailing from Gothenburg, Sweden, is excited to unveil their debut concept EP, The Spiral. Teaming up with heavyweight champions Majestic Mountain Records, Citizend is set to move the boundaries between Americana, po …

Exclusive Video Premiere: Burden Limbs – ‘Flesh Prison’

Chad Murray’s “six-piece swarm of jank post-psyche miserable bastard music working as a unit to explore extremity in all its facets.”

Exclusive Album Premiere: Alunah – Fever Dream

With their third album on Heavy Psych Sounds Records, Alunah have wasted no time in a post-pandemic haze since their last release, balancing being on the European festival circuit alongside touring the UK.

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