• Interview: HANA

    Los Angeles electro-pop singer HANA is braced for success. She’s toured Shamir, Lana Del Rey and Purity Ring, and is self-proclaimed bessie-mates with Grimes. Last Friday she finally released her much anticipated debut HANA EP. In the wake of this release, we caught up with HANA before she’s makes...
  • Album Review: Zayn Malik – Mind of Mine

    The English singer and songwriter Zayn Malik, that many may know from a famous band known as One Direction has just hit us with his first solo album. The 23 year old vocalist released a couple of successful singles earlier this year, but I am sure not many of...
  • Easter Comeback Playlist

    It’s Easter Sunday! The day we might as well send off mailing cheques to Cadburys and celebrate the greatest comeback of all time (beside the odd Timberlake or so): that of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ. To mark the occasion, IMPACT have put together a playlist of some of...
  • Interview: LANY

    I sat with the up and coming California based three-piece band LANY for a quick interview before they supported Ellie Goulding’s Nottingham edition of her UK tour at the Motorpoint Arena. So guys, thanks for meeting me today. The first question I wanted to ask was whether you guys...
  • Album Review: Iggy Pop – Post Pop Depression

    Iggy Pop is the last of the iconic seventies art-rock heroes. There’s that iconic image of David Bowie, Lou Reed and Iggy together in their youth, and for many the pantheon really starts and ends with those three names. Lou Reed died. Bowie is dead. Now Iggy has a...
  • Live Review: Grimes, Rock City (08/03/2016)

    Claire Boucher, AKA Grimes, is an artist who attracts a particular type of crowd. They’re not cool, nor are they trying to be – they’re not averse to cheese, in fact they lap it up in spades, and most of all they’re out to have fun, and lots of it. Grimes may...
  • Live Review: Stiff Little Fingers, Rock City (11/03/16)

    Being a long-time fan, this was to be my third time seeing the Northern-Irish Punk Rock legends that are Stiff Little Fingers, and looking forward to it so much I arrived at the venue before doors even opened. This, however, proved to be fun in and of itself. Like...