TV en Francais by We Are Scientists
Considering the rather bizarre title of the fourth album by California based indie-rockers We Are Scientists, TV En Français, I have decided to continue the remainder of this review in the language of...
View ArticleHarpeth Rising to make an appearance at The Musician
It is commonly said that The Musician (Clyde Street (LE1 2DE)) has been earning its reputation as one of the Midlands go-to venues for independent and up-and-coming bands and artists. Last week we...
View ArticleOxjam Takeover 2014
On 4th October the Oxjam Leicester Takeover returns for yet another year, promising to be bigger and better than ever! Oxjam proves that local music can make a global impact. Since 2006, festivals...
View ArticleMusic in Leicester
Down the road at De Montfort Hall this fortnight, rock band Placebo will be performing on 16th March. They will be fresh from a tour of North America and it should be a high energy gig from this band...
View ArticlePurity Ring – another eternity
It isn’t difficult to see why Canadian synthpop duo Purity Ring made such an impression with debut Shrines in 2012. It was a flickering candle in darkness; eerily beautiful tracks in which Megan James’...
View Article“Save our Bones”: Debut Single from up and comers Sweet Little Machine
“Save our Bones” will undoubtedly launch Punk Rockers “Sweet Little Machine” upwards to join the Sheffield music hall of fame among none other than Arctic Monkeys, Bring Me The Horizon, Deff Leppard...
View Article“Save Our Bones”: Debut Single from Up and Comers Sweet Little Machine
“Save our Bones” will undoubtedly launch Punk Rockers “Sweet Little Machine” upwards to join the Sheffield music hall of fame among none other than Arctic Monkeys, Bring Me The Horizon, Deff Leppard...
View ArticleHandmade Festival 2015
From the 1 to the 3 May, I hung around in various rooms of the Percy Gee building having my ears alternately caressed and assaulted by a variety of singing, screaming, shouting and shrieking acts...
View ArticleMac Demarco’s Salad Days: A Year Later
If cool, mellow, indie rock is your thing, then I’ve no doubt you’ve tuned your ear to the stylings of Mac Demarco and his Lo-Fi, slacker sound. Just one year on from his top selling album, and the...
View ArticleThe Rise and Fall of a Hero
”Bowie’s Dead’‘. On the 10th January 2016, hazily awaking to those two words, delivered courtesy of my Bowie fore-father, was as mystifying, bewildering and apocalyptic as any Bowie ballad (strong...
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