Fleet Foxes – Shore review

Right about the time that Fleet Foxes third album, 2017’s Crack Up was released, front man Robin Pecknold appeared to … More

September 2020’s Best New Music

The best of this month’s new tracks from Deftones, Shame, A Certain Ratio, Django Django, Knucks, Young Knives & The Goa Express….

Being a veteran in the music industry – unless you’re one of the mega stars, with a back catalogue which … More

December 2019, Leeds: the atmosphere at that Idles gig, precisely one week before the general election, is one of positivity, … More

If, as one half of Young Knives Henry Dartnell has stated about Barbarians each of their albums usually has some … More

Tricky’s autobiography Hell Is Around The Corner was an archetypal bad boy made good story, as the man who found … More

The term “Nu-Madchester” isn’t newly minted; back in 2008 The Guardian were musing jokily whether to apply it to the … More

Blog exclusive – Doves return after a decade away with The Universal Want.

The wellspring of creativity is a thing not to be defined or understood; some songwriters like to shake their fists … More

Is there such a thing as global music any more? A decade ago it was easy to hear some artists … More