Category: Features


  • Revolutions: The Remix Round-Up – Week 1

    Welcome to Revolutions, your brand new one-stop remix shop, featuring some of the best tracks that have been mashed, morphed and manufactured into dance tunes.

  • Introducing: Angel Haze

    2012 seems to have been a tipping point for hip hop and rap music. For years, some of the biggest names in the genre like Snoop Dogg, Kanye West and Jay-Z have used homophobic lyrics, but a lot has changed since 2000 when Eminem rapped “Hate fags? The answer’s yes” in ‘Criminal’. A noticeable change […]

  • A Chat With Little Comets

    Phoebe Cross catches up with Little Comets and talks arty videos, vinyl and getting old.

  • Aaliyah; Remembering the Princess of R&B

    From her image, to her music, Aaliyah was the perfect pop star. Her style was distinct with jet black hair that hid one of her eyes, combined with a tomboy attitude that effortlessly oozed sex appeal. Boys everywhere fell for her, and girls everywhere wanted to be her. Although Aaliyah did not have the best […]

  • Pussy Riot and Madonna; the highs and lows of politics in music

    I could write about how Pussy Riot are brilliant. I could write about how, in getting jailed for two years for their protests against Vladimir Putin’s Russian government, they are the defining protest band and a symbol for how dedicated and passionate people can be towards a cause. But that would be boring. Instead, I […]

  • Interview with Dan and Will from Bastille (18/08/2012)

    After watching their phenomenal set at Strummer of Love Festival I got a chance to chill out with Dan and Will from Bastille outside their temporary, luxurious, dressing room area aka – a small caravan. It was such a poignant time to talk to Bastille, on the cusp of becoming very very popular, with lots […]

  • A Chat With The Guillemots At Truckfest 2012

    The Guillemots are busy, very busy, so myself and Andy Neilson were very lucky to have been able to meet up with them last month at Truck festival. They’ve decided to release four albums in the space of a year, with the first, Hello Land! having already come out in May. Ambitious, but according to […]

  • The Angle – Week 22

    1. Wavves – ‘Hippies Is Punks’ This California pop-punk three piece have gathered a healthy fan base over the last few years with the release of 2 albums and several EPs and now they’re here again to unleash more of their catchy riffs. ‘Hippies Is Punks’ is nostalgic to much of Sum 41 and Weezer’s earlier music […]

  • An Interview with Wicked’s Louise Dearman

    David Tully chats to Louise Dearman about returning to Wicked and swapping the bubble for the broomstick

  • An Interview with Alex Nee from American Idiot

    Alex Nee chats to David Tully about his time with the show he sums up as “Rage, love and guy-liner”

  • The Angle – Week 21

    Your new music fix returns featuring Jesca Hoop and others.

  • Pure Love talk about debut album Anthems: “It sounds like a classic”

    It’s just turned 5pm on a sweaty Monday in Cardiff. A short stroll down the back-alley-esque Womanby Street takes me to one of Cardiff’s most prestigious music venues; Clwb Ifor Bach (AKA ‘Welsh Club’ for the English speakers). Upstairs are former Gallows frontman Frank Carter, and former Hope Conspiracy guitarist Jim Carroll; they are Pure […]

  • A Review of the Opening Ceremony of the London Olympic Games (Using Twitter)

    In today’s society, one no longer finds out about current events in an un-biased BBC News fashion, they accidentally stumble upon them in a highly opinionated form on the likes of facebook or twitter. No longer does one simply read ‘England lose against France’ and continue with their existence, forming their own opinion, they instead […]

  • The Return Of No Doubt

    This week, rock royalty No Doubt, have returned with new music taken from their forthcoming album Push And Shove which will be released in September, and will be the band’s first studio album since their 2001 record Rock Steady. The first single ‘Settle Down’ was premiered on Ryan Seacrest’s radio show in the US on […]