Folly of Youth

Prompting me to think of both ‘stonewall’ (“ to obstruct or hinder any discussion ”) and the more contemporary ‘firewall’, Deadwall appears...

Pity the poor touring band: six sweaty hours on the road from Edinburgh to Manchester, then a BBC radio session (for Marc Riley; listen agai...

“ Small Thoughts ” is the seventh album from Pulco (aka Ash Cooke), previously of Peel session favs Derrero and for the last ten years sol...

Recently I have been swooning over plenty of new (to me) Scottish bands including Withered Hand, The Douglas Firs, The Savings and Loan, Kin...

The February 2010 show by Tune-Yards was a revelation to me. I loved the record that came first but was then bowled over by how one person ...

A basic home recording set-up, some retro knitting pattern artwork and a Bandcamp account. These days that’s all the ingredients a band need...

Jim Wallis is the drummer in London's My Sad Captains , ace purveyors of bitter-sweet indie-pop (their second album due at some point th...

“Fragile Animal” is Randi Russo ’s third studio album since 2001’s self-released “ Solar Bipolar ”, a steady album-every-five-years work-rat...

The excesses of May and its mini-festival season may have passed but there's still plenty of excellent gigs this month in Manchester. Un...

Mixtape : June 2011 [60 mins / 68 MB] - download here

“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...