indie

Irish indie band, The Coronas, returned to Nottingham last week to promote their fourth album, The Long Way. Opening their UK tour, an intimate audience at Rescue Rooms were treated to a powerful performance of songs from previous albums such as Heroes and Ghosts and Closer to You. Following...

Arriving somewhat flustered to the Capital FM Arena to collect my ticket, purchased very last minute from a kindly person on eBay, I was surprised at just how quickly the queues were managed, and in no time at all I was dead centre of the standing area, swamped by...

Brooklyn-based American outsider house musician Dan Friel has been in the music-making game for quite some time; he self-released his first EP almost fifteen years ago. However, being a seasoned veteran in the music business does not automatically make him a strong musician. As seen in Friel’s latest LP...

Over the last half a decade, each Deerhunter album appears to have coincided with a traumatic period in lead-singer Bradford Cox’s life. Their 2010 album Halycon Digest and Cox’s solo 2011 album Parallax were as a result of the deaths of two close friends, while 2013’s Monomania was a...

Ever the alluringly spiky contrarian, John Grant heralded his third album with an unnerving promo vid. Pairing Sylvanian Family quaintness with The Shining, the video depicted blood-drenched Grant dressed all mom-n-apple-pie wielding a gore spattered mallet as the title track relayed overhead. It’s all in much the same vein...

The second effort from Edinburgh’s The Spook School is exhilarating, thought-provoking and unashamedly brilliant. On 2013’s Dress Up, we heard the sound of a band still figuring out who they were; their C86-inspired indie-pop impressive but perhaps lacking a certain degree of self-confidence. On Try To Be Hopeful, the...

Alex Turner, the smoking hot, ice cool frontman of the Arctic Monkeys, is not just a beautiful musician. He’s also the unsung hero of the noughties crop of lyricists, whose writing quietly electrifies meaning; and for many, the voice of a generation. What with their being a band and...