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I started writing this opening paragraph about how much like David Bowie the London four-piece Night Engine sound, but then I realised everyone has already […]

We had a truly great time at The Great Escape last weekend, notwithstanding that inevitable moment that occurs at the end of every visit to […]

A few weeks ago we hit Sheffield, birthplace of Pulp, Arctic Monkeys, Warp Records, The Human League, and, er, Reverend & The Makers, for a […]

Over the last 9 months or so, Savages have been the band on everyone’s lips. Indeed, every label in the Beggars Group (XL, Rough Trade, […]

When composing music, or anything else, it’s almost impossible not to be influenced by your environment. Indeed, in some cases musicians go out of their […]

For most fifteen-year-olds, getting into warehouse parties can be a struggle. First you’ve got to find a believable story to convince the ‘rents that you’re […]

Some musicians are content to slop out the same material again and again, spooning it into the drooling jaws of their unimaginative fans with so […]

In hip-hop, fat beats are the only ones that matter. You never hear people clamouring for skinny rhythms, or asking the DJ to drop a well-proportioned beat. No, like fry-ups or sumo wrestlers, the bigger the beat the better.

Many band’s first forays into performing live involve getting booked by tight-fisted promoters to play tiny, deserted venues in return for, if they’re lucky, a […]

There are certain people, many people, for whom Cyclops isn't a fearsome one-eyed monster from Greek mythology but a sanctimonious, laser-shooting twat sporting a terrible pair of wraparounds. Kathryn Beckwith is presumably one of these people.