Taken during the lockdown 2.0, these intimate and equally sad images portray an eerie vision one of the world’s most vibrant and prestigious music scenes.
Category: Features
GigList’s Top 100 Tracks of 2020
We’ve rounded up the best 100 tracks from this year, just to remind you that 2020 has not been all bad.
GigList’s Top 20 Albums Of 2020
Though the use of ‘annus horribilis’ has never been more applicable, 2020 has brought us some incredible records. Here’s the 20 very best of them:
GigList’s Top 10 EPs of 2020
On the first of our ‘end of year’ roundups, we’ve tackled Extended Plays. Here’s the best of ’em:
GigList’s Christmas Cracker Of A Playlist
If The Cure’s goth icon Robert Smith can feel festive despite this most dreadful year, then so can you with our Christmassy collection of old, new, indie, alternative, and some classic Yuletide tracks to banish those bah humbugs.
Breaking Through | 5 Questions with Kate Bollinger
We get to know one of 2020’s breakout, bedroom pop songwriters Kate Bollinger.
Save Our Venues Spotlight: The Hope and Ruin, Brighton
En route from Brighton’s central train station to the beach, you’ll no doubt come across a former cinema readograph that states ‘This Must Be The Place’. In terms of nurturing new bands and scenes in the city, that’s exactly what The Hope and Ruin is. We spoke to Creative Director and Booker Sally Oakenfold about the venue’s value to the local music community, it’s memorable past, and hopeful future.
5 must-see livestream sets to tune into this October
Livestreams are still popping off in lieu of ‘proper gigs’, so here’s a list of sets this month we implore you to see.
Saint Motel: Ambition, Auteurism, and the Ever-Vital Music Video
The importance of the music video is not lost on some artists, namely Los Angeles’ Saint Motel, whose dazzling, narrative-driven visuals are at the crux of their big indie pop aesthetic. With Part 2 of their cinematic album series The Original Motion Picture Soundtrack out now, we caught up with lead singer A.J. Jackson about how music videos are more vital than ever.
Anniverseries: Deerhunter – Halcyon Digest
For a time, Deerhunter were the pinnacle of indie rock music, at least in critical terms. On fifth studio album Halcyon Digest, they found a perfect storm of catchy, confusing, immersive, and experimental. A decade to the day since its release, let’s revisit the universally lauded album which pinpoints when indie got eerie.