• Live Review: Gengahr, Bodega (9/10/2015)

    Upstairs in The Bodega was the perfect intimate setting for a rising act on the indie-rock scene, Gengahr. The four-piece from London have worked their way up by supporting established bands such as Wolf Alice, The Maccabees and Dry the River as well as touring the festival circuit this...
  • Live Review: Peace, Rock City (02/10/2015)

    Hair, charisma, sweat and talent. To sum up Peace’s performance at Rock City so simplistically is crude yet surprisingly effective. To overstate this indie-rock band’s talent is hardly conceivable. Quite clearly the fans at lively Rock City agreed. Energetic responses continually emerged from the crowd. Signs of adoration took...
  • An Introduction To: Japanese Hip-Hop

    1994 was a big year for hip hop in America. East coast had the likes of Nas’s Illmatic and Notorious B.I.G.’s Ready To Die coming through, Warren G was debuting Regulate… G Funk Era in the West Coast and Outkast were making headlines from the South with their first...
  • Album Review: Wavves – V

    The California surf rockers Wavves are back with a feisty fifth effort ingeniously entitled V. The band’s latest offering veers away from the pop-punk crossover that Warner Bros may have wanted from them and could have been the cause of their conflict. The whole public debacle that unfolded earlier...
  • Live Review: Sleaford Mods, Rock City (09/10/2015)

    What does it say about us when this is the music that moves us? One man holding a beer playing beats off a laptop to the left of stage while to the right another spits foul-mouthed vitriol into a microphone. What does it say about the sentiment of a...
  • Interview: Palace

    London-based four-piece Palace have made something of a splash in the indie-rock scene in the past twelve months – opening for Jamie T’s comeback tour and dropping a pair of acclaimed EP’s in the form of Lost In The Night and Chase The Light. Now they’re touring off their...
  • Film Review – The Martian

    Ridley Scott doesn’t have a monopoly on space, but sometimes it can feel that way (even though Alfonso Cuarón likely made the definitive space movie of the past decade). He’s the founder of the Alien franchise and awkward purveyor of new Prometheus brand too – some of the biggest...