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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

It is hard to believe we are already past the midpoint of 2026. The year has passed so quickly that, all of a sudden, Punk Christmas, otherwise known as Rebellion Festival, had arrived again — and ...

I first came across Leeds five-piece Tiger Island (which has to rank as one of the coolest band names ever, in my opinion) back at the start of 2024 when I reviewed their EP Looka Looka Looka (keeping ...

Listening to the music of Sumie (Sandra Nagano) is to cast off the stresses of the world and be transported to the most beautiful landscape. For many reasons Stardust In Valleys is quite simply her ...

The Fall are one of those bands whose influence is so deeply ingrained into independent and alternative music that it’s hard to imagine the musical landscape without them. They are one of those bands ...

Today has seen the release of Obsessed With You (The Early Years) an official release of X Ray Spex demo recordings which would later evolve into classic punk album ‘Germfree Adolescents’ an album ...

Exciting news for any fans of legendary seventies punk band X Ray Spex. Former band members Lora Logic and Paul Dean will be appearing at iconic London record store Rough Trade East on Sunday 24th May ...

You had me at Lemoncello. Or, to be more truthful, you had me at this description of their second album: “They are love songs sent towards people near and far away. Holding on together somehow with a ...

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 ...

Everything Is Great!, the new album forged by a collaboration between US singer-songwriter Carsie Blanton, her bandmate Joe Plowman and Mathias Kom and Ariel Sharratt of Canadian garage-folk outfit ...