• Music Advent Calendar #2: Snarky Puppy – ‘Thing of Gold’

    Holding up the philosophy that Christmas music should not only be festive, but diverse, Impact has compiled a list of 25 ‘Christmas songs’ to take you through advent. Including not only songs which are indisputably part of the Christmas canon, but also straying into areas of music which holds looser links...
  • Live Review: Perfume Genius, Oobleck (25/11/14)

    Think how much courage it must take to be a musician, to stand on a stage and put your entire self out there, to be judged every second for the way you stand and what you play or don’t play, the notes you hit or miss. Then think of...
  • Live Review: Annie Eve

    Annie Eve brought her ethereal folk rock set to Bodega and utterly mesmerized the crowd with her songs of heartbreak and sour relationships. With an immensely popular and much talked about appearance at Glastonbury this summer, it was a sin how few people turned up to see Annie Eve...
  • Live Review: New Faces Tour

    This was the second “New faces Tour”, an idea pioneered by Communion and XFM to bring four unique, up and coming artist to intimate venues around the UK. This tour featured Pixel Fix, Kimberley Anne, Fyfe and Nottingham’s own Amber Run. Pixel Fix Oxford based four-piece Pixel Fix kicked...
  • Music Advent Calendar #1: Mayhem – ‘Freezing Moon’

    Holding up the philosophy that Christmas music should not only be festive, but diverse, Impact has compiled a list of 25 ‘Christmas songs’ to take you through advent. Including not only songs which are indisputably part of the Christmas canon, but also straying into areas of music which holds looser links...
  • Interview: The Pretty Reckless

    We were lucky enough to have a sit down with Taylor Momsen and Ben Phillips from The Pretty Reckless, who after just arriving from New York that day  were set to play a sold out Rock City. Is it good to be back in the U.K? Taylor: It’s awesome, I f***ing...
  • Live Review: Walking On Cars

    It’s no secret that support acts have a difficult job – performing to a large crowd of people all waiting excitedly and impatiently for another artist to come on. Factor in tonight’s venue on a university campus and rowdy, exclusively student crowd (all drinking heavily and somehow managing to...