The much-anticipated ‘Do Ya Thing’ is the latest installment in Converse’s ‘Three Artists, One Song’ campaign, with this editions featuring artists being Gorillaz, LCD Soundsystem’s James Murphy and Andre 3000 of Outkast. The song’s glitchy and minimalist backing track repeats consistently throughout the song, forming an ample background to the exceptional foreground of hugely varying…
Brand New are a diverse band. Their music covers a huge amount of genres; from the pop-punk tunes of Your Favourite Weapon to the experimental ballads of Daisy so one would expect their gig to be a journey covering a whole plethora of differing emotions that vary with their music. Unfortunately, it felt like something…
Prior to their gig at The Joiners, American indie-rockers Howler took some time to talk to The Edge about their new album, their previous band names, how their first headlining UK tour is going and how they are coping with being labeled with the next-big-thing. Firstly, how is your debut headlining tour of the UK…
The latest ‘next-big-thing’ Howler had a lot to live up to with this gig. With a crowd consisting of people eagerly awaiting to either applaud a band who fulfill the title the press has given them of a ‘Vaccines-Drums-Strokes Hybrid’ or snap up the remains as they fail to reach anything above ‘not bad’, the…
The press release for Enter Shikari’s third album A Flash Flood of Colour lists the albums genre as ‘punkrockdubstephardcoremetalambienttechnonoisecore’. This may initially seem like the boldest statement in the history of record label promotion, but through listening to this 11-track, genre-spanning, statement against ‘the man’, I feel that the promise of such a wide variety…
The band name AWOLNATION brings to mind a sort of general misguided teenage rage at the state of world, as if the band are out to say “Argh! Society has gone AWOL – it’s rubbish!”. However, ‘Not Your Fault’ does not follow such important themes of changing society, it rather settles on being a standard pop…
The Darkness’s first new material since their reformation last year suggests that the band have not tried to develop their sound or delve into other genres, but rather have stuck to their winning formula of simple tongue-in-cheek rock and roll. The song features catchy guitar riffs in the verses, a singalong chorus and an onslaught…
The Edge speaks to The Ting Tings lead singer and guitarist Katie White about worldwide tours, the new album, and Rihanna!
On February 10th, American rockers Brand New will be taking the centre stage at the Southampton Guildhall. The band initially shot to prominence with the release of Deja Entendu in 2003. The album received critical acclaim and cemented the band’s status as the leaders of the massive emo-rock scene of the time. Since then they have released…
The indie rockstars will be returning after a lengthy hiatus, with their first album in almost four years, frontman intact.
Following the release of their second LP Portamento, The Drums were out to prove something tonight. After album one, many considered them a flash-in-the-pan hipster band stitched together from every generic indie influence under the sun, but from this performance it can be seen that the band’s unique take on pop music has strengthened with…
Currently on tour supporting their second album Portamento, The Drums guitarist Jacob Graham took some time out to talk to The Edge before the band’s gig at the Portsmouth Pyramids about the band’s future, the problems with modern music and how he dealt with the hype that his band received. Having just released album two,…
Little Justin Bieber makes it easy to hate him, doesn’t he? In this disgustingly sugary festive number that mixes references to everyone’s favourite day with focus-group level ‘gangster’ language (see “Shawtee with you”), the little spawn of Satan proves that he can even ruin Christmas. The formulaic and catchy nature of the chorus will guarantee…
The title of Portland-based electro band Starfucker’s reissued and reworked EP-sort-of-album Jupiter sets the listener’s expectations sky high. What the band have created, however, does not wholly represent the planetary level promise that they give. I think the main problem I had with the album is that each song is good, but it just doesn’t…