Impact Music

The deadlines are piling up but don’t worry, I’m still here to give you the albums worth listening to this week so you don’t have to sift through them. Without further ado, here are the projects I’ve been listening to over the weekend. Childish Gambino – “Awaken, My Love!”...

Who’s visited Nottingham this week? Here’s our take on the most memorable live music of the last seven days… Annie-Marie, Rescue Rooms (22/11/2016) Anne Marie was phenomenally honest. It’s often quite obvious when certain artists aren’t enjoying a tour; doing the exact same set over and over can become...

With rap and grime at the forefront of the UK urban scene, it’s quite easy to let the great vocalists of the scene go unnoticed. This list is just my way of letting you guys know about the dope vocalists that deserve a bit more recognition. Some are well...

HÆLOS are the furthest thing from the characterless contrived creatives that come to mind when you think about an experimental electronic trio hailing from Hackney. Neither the venue’s intimacy nor relative emptiness on a bank holiday Monday discouraged them. “It almost feels like our studio that we’re inviting you...

From Vogue magazine’s ‘indie music breakout star’ of 2012 to a successful solo musician in her own right – Lucy Rose has come along way from being Bombay Bicycle Club’s backing vocalist. Establishing herself as the industry’s ‘nice girl’ singer-songwriter, Rose has taken a new, edgier direction with her...

Missouri garage-punk trio Radkey return to Nottingham in support of this year’s debut album Dark Black Makeup, with Wolverhampton two-piece God Damn in tow. Since their appearance on Jools Holland two years ago, the three home-schooled Radke brothers that make up Radkey have slowly, but surely, built a reputation...

Once dubbed ‘the future of rock ‘n’ roll’, Bruce Springsteen has since become, in his own words, “the hardest working white man in show business”, with mammoth, exhilarating four-hour concerts a staple of his touring career. But Springsteen, for an artist with a forty year body of work, also...