Despite news of a second lockdown bringing on further anxiety about the fate of the live music industry the day prior, Juanita Stein’s beautifully emotive, earthy, soul-warping world offered some brief respite during her livestream set on Sunday night.
Breaking Through | 5 Questions with Kate Bollinger
We get to know one of 2020’s breakout, bedroom pop songwriters Kate Bollinger.
Sleaford Mods announce new album Spare Ribs – watch video for new single ‘Mork N Mindy’ here
A Ben Wheatley directed video accompanies news of the acerbic Nottingham duo’s new album.
LIVE: Richard Dawson, Live from the Barbican
With an unrivalled sense of empathy in a time of crisis, Richard Dawson made a detached livestream set from the belly of the Barbican feel comfortingly intimate.
In Review: beabadoobee – Fake It Flowers
Despite faithfully adopting the affectations of late 90s/early 00s headstrong pop-punk bands, beabadoobee’s debut album unfolds like a diary entry torn out and thrown away because it’s too raw and real for even the writer to look at.
In Review: Osees – Metamorphosed
Twisting and morphing in varying directions, John Dwyer’s latest collection of b-sides still manages a few enthralling surprises.
In Review: James Blake – Before
The most up-tempo, fun release we’ve seen from Blake in a while, Before gleefully melds the experimentalist through-line of his oeuvre with the corporeal immediacy of dance music. On this four-track EP, he has returned to his roots – all the way back to his days as an adolescent dubstep DJ.
In Review: Sun June – ‘Karen O’
Musically, ‘Karen O’ (sounding suspiciously like the Yeah Yeah Yeah’s vocalist is singing about herself behind a pseudonym) is quiet and low, but pregnant with nostalgia, ruminating on lost love as a universal human experience.
Legendary punks The Damned to reunite for 2021 tour
The British band’s original lineup will get back together for the first time in nearly 25 years, for four dates next year.
In Review: Future Islands – As Long As You Are
On their first album for three years, The Baltimore group take their signature synthpop sound into more subdued territory, conjuring new and exciting scenes from their old ways.