Folly of Youth

“David Koresh Superstar” is the third album from Sussex's The Indelicates released last week on their own label Corporate Records . Not...

I’m one of those Low listeners who is more familiar with the Minnesotan band’s Christmas EP than their 9 album career proper. So with sever...

There’s nothing wrong with the name Charlie Ward but it’s not a patch on King Post Kitsch . What a monumentally brilliant name to be releasi...

The opening track to The Douglas Firs debut album is called 'I Will Kill Again'. Glad to report it is not satanic Norwegian metal b...

Here’s another is-it-a-band-or-is-it-a-person musical project sat behind a name that renders internet searching futile. A single song on So...

My only knowledge of Sarabeth Tucek before tonight was confined to a few plays of this year’s album " Get Well Soon ". I missed t...

After a warm, sunny afternoon, a torrential downpour from ominous thick, black clouds hit Manchester about 7.30pm. Precisely the time a long...

Owlet Music is a micro-indie based in Carmarthenshire, run by Owain from Trwbador (the duo’s “It Snowed At Lot Last Year” EP reviewed here...

The second album from the man known to the UK Passport Agency as Jonathan Palmer continues the trend of filmic adventure titles: first “ The...

A naturally busy month for gigs is swelled to bursting point this May by a selection of highly recommended festivals. Starting the month is ...

Mixtape : May 2011 [61 mins / 69 MB] - download here

Gloomy, subdued lighting and the Twin Peaks soundtrack. The screen at the rear of the stage set to start playing FW Murnau’s 1922 expression...

The Doomed Bird of Providence has a very clear purpose on its debut record released in the UK this week: to “ bring to visceral life the fo...

Anyone remember ‘difficult third album’ syndrome? These days you are more likely to encounter difficult first album syndrome as groups strug...

Mark Christopher Grassick introduces himself plainly as “ one-third of the band Deer Park ”. On this showing one-third is pretty powerful. T...

Grubby Mitts is a five-piece from Bedford led by Andy Holden who has a separate creative life as a visual artist . Actually it may not be ...

Hard to credit that The High Llamas have been releasing records, albeit with spacious intervals, for 21 years (a Microdisney reference now...