Category: Live

Reminiscent of early Sabbath, Fuzz played like they’d never taken a break from their face-melting exploits during their recent livestream set from LA’s Zebulon.

CBD softbois Tame Impala return to their riff-heavy roots with a live playthrough of stellar debut album Innerspeaker, in a move that shows how far the band has come but brings the psych-rock purists, the stoners, and the loners back on side.

In another superb edition to the Barbican series, the jazz drummer and orchestrator who’s renowned for his blistering and balanced playing style exacts this energy in a show that passed all too quickly.

With a humble, passionate, and rare play-through of her hallmark album at LA’s Zebulon, Van Etten pays homage to the intimate venue and collaborative process that helped build her career and offered a sturdy platform for her hard-earned popularity.

Natasha Khan’s uncomplicated and magical performance felt like a blanket of comfort and child-like escapism wrapped around you.

London Gig Weekly’s latest livestream offering was a mix of folkloric praise and beguiling charisma, from two of London’s more captivating emerging artists.

It’s hard to argue with their technical industry, and the seven-piece performed impeccably at their Southbank Centre livestream show despite the lack of energy of an expectant audience.

Enduring and ever-eclectic, The Cinematic Orchestra drew strength from the strangeness of the show’s setting: seeing the musicians alone onstage within this vast, empty shell of a building seemed to give expression to the collective experience of a year marked by more silence, space, and solitude.

London’s experimental pop troupe beg the question with their surrealist, monochrome livestream: why did it take so long for us to get to this? Sitting between a music film and a gig, it offers something different, occupying its own space in live music performance.

All beaming smiles and exuberant glam rock stompers, Sunflower Bean brought a giddiness to being back on stage, radiating with a gleeful and desperate energy having been deprived of performing live for so many months now.