And to be honest, while this feature is more designed for voices who are either stuck or choose to work in the shadows, sometimes big albums need some recognition. Morby isn’t afraid to share his ...

Approaching 40 years since the release of Daddy’s Highway, and in 2025 it’s not outlandish to suggest that The Bats are making the best music they ever have.

Sun 13’s Banjo looks at the life and troubled times of the Pink Floyd founder. Barrett was creatively unique and a lot of the psychedelic movement’s bands owed a great deal to his vision. But he was ...

Whether it be via the seminal punk veterans, Archers of Loaf, under the guise of Crooked Fingers or his own name, over the last 35 years, Eric Bachmann has been one of the most authentic voices. Why?

Some bands conjure up an emotional response where it feels like they simply exist for your ears only. Over a lifetime there are several acts that spark such sentiments and, for me, Early Day Miners ...

BIG|BRAVE are one the most potent experimental acts on the planet. The Montréal band’s collision of metal, post-hardcore and folk, one-of-kind, reaching the apex on their excellent 2024 release, A ...

The Clash were everything a band should have been at that particular point and place in music. Young, good looking, well dressed, confused and even contradictory. It wasn’t that Liverpool didn’t love ...

The complete and utter circle jerk that was the Grammys highlighted a lot of things. Above all (pardon the pun), it was style over substance: a tidal wave of popular culture crushing anything we once ...

During the uncertainty of the COVID pandemic, on the back of their game-changing long-player, ULTRAPOP, it really did seem like The Armed were the world changers that rock music needed. A band whose ...

Banjo looks at the Teardrop Explodes and their Club Zoo folly, where one of Liverpool’s most famous bands went off the rails. The late 70s and early 80s were an incredibly fertile time for the ...

While our Label Watch feature has been a stop start affair over the years (too much music not enough hours, etc. etc.), this latest edition has been on the boil for quite some time. This is melodic ...

The New York trio return with their fourth LP and first for 12XU. Weak Signal haven’t sounded so carefree, and it’s perhaps due to the realisation that this music game is a con for any band wanting to ...