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 ...

Alison Cotton ‘s new album The Gods Laugh joins a long line of her albums that inhabit dark and ancient parts of our collective past, drawing from folklore and collaging myriad sounds into layered and ...

“What is work?” – it’s the name of a non-existent Haddaway B-side. It’s the first three words of this review. It’s also the howl of existential despair I ask myself at precisely 9:04am every morning ...

In the late 90s and early 00s I was a big fan of trip-hop, ambient, big beat, and the more chilled side of dance music. This is why there is a huge gap in my indie knowledge (sorry Teenage Fanclub and ...

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 ...

It’s revealing that the title of Middle Class Guilt’s second album includes the word ‘comedy’. In my review of their debut The Committee, released last year, I referred to the band as ‘mischief makers ...

If you shook me awake in the middle of the night and asked me who my favourite singer is I would, without hesitation, say Sumie. All music lovers have those artists that resonate with them on a ...

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 ...

When we get a few days of sunshine it feels like spring is giving us a glimpse of the summer that’s on the horizon. AySay’s new album Mal is a set of songs that definitely bring the anticipation of ...

It’s a family affair at The Lexington tonight for the second of a pair of sold-out shows at The Lexington in one day from Wild Billy Childish & CTMF with support from The Shadracks. Not only do both ...