LOUD WOMEN Fest is only a few days away. I can't think of a better way to warm up for Saturday than checking out their latest compilation album. This is their seventh release. The compilation includes ...

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Back in 2022, I went to my first LOUD WOMEN Fest and felt like I had arrived at my musical spiritual home. I have attended every year since, and it has become one of the yearly highlights of my ...

Last month John Clay spoke with Brixton Hill Studios proprietor Stephen Gilchrist about the South London rehearsal space and recording studio’s battle for survival in the face of a 136% rent increase ...

Cars From The Future have released their new album 2 a joyously frenetic collage of sounds mixing up jazz-fusion and electronica while managing to evoke that sense of how past looked at the future ...

How do you know an artist is onto something? Sold out shows, yes. In demand guestlist, tick. Top quality support acts, booked. More photographers down the front than you can shake a speedlight at? Oh ...

Dog Chocolate’s new album So Inspired, So Done In is serious fun. Arch, conceptual and as angular as a geometry set. Instruments jerk and spasm and the anxious vocals are a tumble of ...

In Paul F Cook’s recent review of Rowena Wise’s new album he wrote that she had: been using music as therapy after some difficult years of big life changes and Bad Things Feel Good* is a poetic and ...

There are times when you need the hypernatural perfection of an act like Kraftwerk but there are also times that you need something scuffed up and borderline annoying to liven your listening please ...

Synth Pop. A term as derided as it is celebrated. Depending on the person it can induce images of big hair and even bigger shoulder pads, or moody duos stood expressionless on a stage being so very ...

Liz Overs debut solo album Nightjar is a heady mix of her own compositions and arrangements of traditional songs that, as the press release so perfectly sums up, are “stories of childhood, of loves ...