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Not even a song into the night of hardcore punk overtures and Damian Abraham, Fucked Up’s bear-like frontman, starts roaming the crowd. But while 80s R... Read more »

Taking its scuzz from late 60s proto-punk and the snarl from early 90s riot grrrls, The Coathangers offer a record of near-hits and some legendary misses. Le... Read more »

Ben Folds is a musician best described as ‘having his moments’. After three full-lengths with Ben Folds Five - each with hits outweighing misses ... Read more »

To describe Visiter by The Dodos as folk rock is a bit of a misnomer, but it’s about the quickest, closest-to-centre punch to pull. They’ve also ... Read more »

Some are Lakes is basically a hipster's favourite album from the mid to late 90s - reanimated, cleaned-up and put to work for a new generation. The album's m... Read more »

Making good on their promise for the integration of beer, democracy and music, Tennent's Mutual announced today a trio of warm up gigs set for the months of ... Read more »

The story of Chris Bradley's set at the Voodoo Rooms - celebrating the launch of his debut album, Voices - is one best told in three acts. In the first, Bra... Read more »

Starting in with a keyboard riff reminiscent of a simpler Booker T. and the M.G.'s and a surf rock-esque guitar line, Run Run by Those Dancing Days throws th... Read more »

It seemed the norm for a while that, in rock music, a band would release a few heavier hitting tracks as singles, then try to lure in doubters with a softer ... Read more »

There’s twee, there’s psych-pop, and if they had a baby, it’d be Delaware’s The Spinto Band. They manage both seasick rhythms and fra... Read more »

Being a Tricky Kid must be exhausting. Having helped establish the trip-hop genre, inadvertantly or otherwise, the Knowle West Boy has since spent much of hi... Read more »

Returning to the studio after 2006’s straight-forward rock ‘n’ roll disc Riot City Blues, veterans Primal Scream have made a departure from... Read more »

The past three albums by Nebraskan uber-hipsters The Faint seemed to top each other successively by upping the ante of musical production whilst maintaining ... Read more »

Better... is better than nothing, anyway, which can be said for much of Chinese Democracy: most of the world’s happy enough the damn thing finally came... Read more »

Bringing to a close a year that saw them release a white-hot collaboration with hip-hop hit-maker Danger Mouse, The Black Keys will bring their oil-stained g... Read more »

After conquering the charts and capturing the hearts of music-lovers nationwide, the next stop for the Arctic Monkeys will be your local cinema. For one nig... Read more »

At a certain point, hardcore kids got sick of just mashing trap kits and chugga-chugga riffs. It seems Brighton-hailing The Ghost of a Thousand were some of ... Read more »

Cardiff has Los Campesinos!, Glasgow has Dananananaykroyd, and now Belfast weighs in with their power-pop, equal-opportunity vocalled Cutaways. The two forme... Read more »

  Moody and atmospheric, Eagleowl deliver a complex and weighty EP with Into the Fold. Bookended by the doleful title track and sombre but triumphant N... Read more »

“They say that the classics never go out of style. But they do – they do.” – Worms Of The Senses/Faculties Of The Skull With this s... Read more »

It's a balmy night in south Glasgow, the kind that conjures up thoughts of dive bars and rock joints - so, the setting for The Gaslight Anthem is damn near p... Read more »

Returning to the status of critical darlings without ever quite returning to the same well, The National have built a reputation of being one of the most sol... Read more »

  While cleaning up their act considerably since first bellowing out Pints of Guinness Make You Strong, Floridian folk-punks Against Me! have incidenta... Read more »

The name Screaming Females is a bit of a misnomer for this tuneful indie rock outfit, as one might expect some riot grrrl fury once the needle hits the wax. ... Read more »

Sadly, tonight begins on a sombre note with that news that support act Josh T Pearson has cancelled due to the passing of his father. Instead of the last cou... Read more »

Every once in a while, life hands you little reminders that those old proverbs we hear so often aren't completely hackneyed. In the case of Dawn of the Dead... Read more »

Sometimes, you’ve got to give a little credit for trying. On Loyalty to Loyalty, Cold War Kids try to build on their soulful, everyman’s rock sty... Read more »

At a time when the term 'folk' is a promiscuous lover, shacking up with rock, pop, jazz, etc., it's surprisingly refreshing to hear a straight-forward, no-mo... Read more »

With the hype surrounding Black Kids’ acclaimed four-track demo, Wizard of Ahhhs, the expectations surrounding the Kids’ debut full-length Partie... Read more »

It may be a bit early in his career to describe Arctic Monkeys’ Alex Turner as having a Midas touch, but so far he’s done little to dispel such a... Read more »