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Following his amazing show at the Rescue Rooms, JP Cooper was kind enough to talk to us on his day off recording his debut album. How did it feel to be back in Nottingham? It felt amazing. As far as my records go I haven’t got loads of radio...

Since their break-up in 1970, the individual members of the Beatles have had mixed solo success. Ultimately, they’ve been disappointing. In the ’60s, they combined to reach UK Number One 17 times, yet since their break-up, they’ve only added a few number ones to our musical library. To put...

Nottingham’s Kagoule are comfortably rising to prominence, set apart from a clutter of new bands that seem like recycled Nirvana groupies. If it isn’t Cai’s sore vocals and slick guitar that separates Kagoule from this recent trend of beige soft-rock bands, Lucy Hatter’s tranquil vocals and accompanying bass alongside...

Denmark’s finest confirm themselves as the band of our generation with their third album – a captivating concoction of contemporary, accessible punk and beautiful, experimental post-punk. Their second, You’re Nothing, was an undoubted musical progression from 2011’s brutal debut New Brigade, but the hyperbola of their progress grows ever...

Few debut records offer the maturity and depth that can be found in The Wytches’ long-awaited first LP, Annabel Dream Reader. Although the band jokingly described their sound online as “surf doom”, this is partially accurate. For the most part, the album is a vicious affair warped with psychedelic...