Live Review: Cub Sport at The Waiting Room, London, 9th May

Live Review: Cub Sport at The Waiting Room London, 9th May Brisbane’s Cub Sport enchant their first sell-out London crowd with delicate and tender queer pop. It’s 7:50pm on Thursday night in the tiny basement bar of the Three Crowns pub on Stoke Newington High Street.

Live Review: Yellow Days at KOKO London, May 8th 2018

Effortlessly cool Yellow Days frontman George van den Broek is 19, but you wouldn’t know it. An emotionally mature and confident performance from the singer-songwriter echoes through a sold out audience at KOKO, with a mix of blues, soul, jazz and R&B filling the iconic Camden venue.

Album Review: Peace – ‘Kindness Is The New Rock And Roll’ (Ignition)

Peace’s latest release, Kindness Is The New Rock and Roll, is a confusing one. The band has an album that seeks largely to affirm, encourage, and uplift, but momentarily sinks into the depths of living with mental health issues. It’s an album that is almost entirely, uncynically, keen and positive.

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Album review: FAN – ‘Barton’s Den’ (Polyvinyl)

With The Dodos on hiatus, Meric Long launches solo project FAN after discovery. Following the passing of his father and subsequent birth of his first child, the discovery of two of his father’s synthesisers saw the creation of new solo project FAN – debut LP Barton’s Den is the result.

Album Review: DMA’s – ‘For Now’

Album Review: DMA’s – ‘For Now’ Sydney trio continue their success with a Britpop-fuelled sequel living up to its hype. Following the success of Tame Impala, the Australian alternative music scene has been growing in international status.

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Album Review: Twin Shadow – ‘Caer’ (Warner Bros/Reprise)

Album Review: Twin Shadow – ‘Caer’ (Warner Bros/Reprise) Twin Shadows formulaic classic 1980’s power pop approach does not deviate on Caer. Dominican American musician, producer and actor George Lewis Jr aka Twin Shadow established a formula early on in his career

Album Review: Half Waif – ‘Lavender’ (Cascine)

Album Review: Half Waif – ‘Lavender’ (Cascine) Nandi Rose Plunkett channels her heritage generically and thematically on the rousing Lavender. Nandi Rose Plunkett, aka Half Waif, self-released a whopping three E.P’s and two album’s prior to 2017’s EP form/a (Cascine) and this week’s full-length offering, Lavender.

Album Review: Hinds – I Don’t Run

I Don’t Run’: the sophomore album from Hinds. Their second album finds the Spanish all-female rock band proving their worth with frenetic energy, integrity and honesty, in the face of pressure, expected failure and derision.

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