It’s not very often that someone produces their best work a decade and a half after their first. Chris Helme, erstwhile lead singer of The Seahorses and The Yards, has done just that. I’ve had the pleasure of seeing both [...]

So it arrived today on my desk, former Chili Peppers guitarist John Frusciante’s new solo album. John has been awfully quiet ever since announcing his departure from Red Hot Chili Peppers in December 2009. But then in late May he pops up [...]

Before Ed Sheeran, Owl City, Get Cape Wear Cape Fly and countless other one-man-bands, of the laptop generation, there was Simple Kid. He mixed old and new technology to create his unique sound. He recorded onto an 8 track tape machine [...]

I’m not sure whether you’ll have heard of them. If you have- we share a love, I’m sure. If you haven’t, shame on you. Ok, ok, so this may not be everyone’s type of music. It’s pretty chilled out to [...]

After first hearing ‘This English Life‘ I must say I was desperately waiting to listen of The Chapman Families new EP ‘Cruel Britannia‘. (Cruel Britannia release news) Now I have heard it what can I say? Its amazing, everything I wanted it to [...]

I discovered Ohio Sky lurking around on Twitter and what can I say? These guys are a diamond on a beach of pebbles! The second I started listening to opener ‘Van Gough’ I knew the album was going to right [...]

When Hope of the States released their second album ‘Left‘  in 2006 I have to say I was disappointed! After the epic, densely, layered, orchestral epic that was ‘The Lost Riots’ I could not get to grips with the more [...]

I quite like Bob Marley, some U2 stuff is okay and I’m a bit ‘take it or leave it‘ with Dylan.  I know others who feel the same.  Spiritualized are not a band who conjure up these kind of feelings. [...]

After catching The Wholls raucous and hectic live act a few times in my (and their) home town of Bedford I was looking forward to the release of their debut EP ‘Back to the B-Hive’. For a band who had [...]

Reviewing an album by The Mars Volta is never an easy task, a first impression is not usually your final one and sometimes far from it as I have experienced with previous albums by TMV. This was the case with [...]