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The Shins return with their trademark sound, lyrics and overall sunniness
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The Ting Tings return with second album Sounds From Nowheresville and fail to live up to the billing
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Alexander Green takes on the impossible: reviewing Lana Del Rey’s debut album with a clear head. Check out his review of the most audience-splitting album of the year so far here.
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On a crisp wintery evening, Summer Camp leaves the Joiners crowd feeling warm and fuzzy.
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Every year, an array of musical acts battle it out for the Christmas number one. Why?
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The W Factor; The Wombles re-release their single “Wombling Merry Christmas” to fight x-factor for the Christmas number one.
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Lady Gaga takes on a Christmas classic and succeeds.
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Biopics are always dangerous territory for any film director; the fact is that real life is actually quite dull, thus biographical films are often prone to being over-dramatised, sentimentalised, and even completely fabricated. Control, which focuses on the life of Ian Curtis and his band Joy Division, manages to steer clear of these pitfalls. The […]
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“And who do you think you are/Running around leaving scars”, Christina Perri croons on the chorus of single ‘Jar of Hearts’. If you have listened to the radio recently, you will no doubt have heard the song which gave the singer-songwriter a large amount of unexpected success. A piano ballad full of heart-wrenching lyrics – […]
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Summer Camp – a name that conjures up images of sun, ice cream and swimming pools; and a name perfect for this summery indie pop band. Made up of real-life couple Elizabeth Sankey and Jeremy Warmsley, Summer Camp started off almost by accident, purely by posting a song on Myspace and receiving unexpected acclaim. After […]
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Coldplay’s 5th LP takes the 4 piece into new territory – outright pop – and sounds like a band in mid-life crisis.
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You know that song ‘Pumped Up Kicks’? Yes, of course you do – that catchy upbeat electro pop song that became one of the songs of the summer. Know who sang it? Probably not. Foster the People continue their rise with new single ‘Call It What You Want’, building on the unexpected success of aforementioned […]
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The indie pop festival favourites are back, with a haunting and beautiful, but flawed, sophomore effort.