At 8:15pm on the 21st of October, Your Favorite Enemies performed at The Water Rats in Kings Cross, London. The show started with originality when Jeff, the guitarist kicked it off by using a violin bow to play his guitar, you knew then that this band was unique. Alex was then seen to stand on the equipment and on the drums whilst singing away, this was a […]

Yesterday (Monday 21st October 2013) was not a good day for trains. There were delays all over London and I knew as soon as I heard about this situation that it would not bode well for me. I had a gig to get to and an interview to conduct, delays […]

Electro pop Scottish trio from Glasgow, CHVRCHES have finally released their long awaited debut album The Bones of What You Believe. Kicking it off with a single that they released last year, The Mother We Share is a palatial mix of sparkly synths and hard hitting percussion. The tune hooks […]

Five for Fighting are back with their sixth album Bookmarks,  and what an album it is. Frontman John Ondrasik has proven once again his prowess when it comes to soft rock and catchy songs that will stay in your head for days to come. Ondrasik continues the piano-led theme of […]

The band’s highest charting single to date, the effervescent ‘Chocolate’, has been playing on radio airwaves since early Spring. It is optimistic, youthful, cheeky – “call it a spliff…we’re never gonna quit it”, and the kind of song characterized by a damn good road-trip. It is the jewel in the […]

AM is the fifth studio effort from Los Angeles Sheffield-born indie Godfathers Arctic Monkeys, and, as with any album pushed out by a band these days, it’s leaked about two weeks early. But after polarising listeners with a new direction in recent years, does this new record have the same […]

On Sunday night (August 25th), Biffy Clyro closed Reading Festival’s main stage to millions of adoring fans and couch potatoes alike around the world. As one of the Scottish trio’s most awe-inspiring nights, they didn’t only offer flaming guitars and thrashing anthems; they reinvigorated a flailing franchise in the process. […]

Only God Forgives is the latest film entry from Danish director Nicolas Winding Refn, and while it’s getting almost universally panned by critics for being dull and overly ultra-violent, its true brilliance lies not in its content but in its cinematic execution. I’ll try and keep this as spoiler-free as […]