• Live Review: Example, Rock City (7/11/14)

    Like his surprisingly gaudy rainbow tie-dye t-shirt declares, Example is ‘not a salad’. He knows how to work a crowd with a carefully designed setlist that phases from hit to hit, with the odd throwback before saving the best for last – ‘Kickstarts’ and ‘Changed The Way You Kissed...
  • Playlist: Adding Some Music To Your Movember

    It’s mid-Movember and the ‘staches are starting to come through full and thick. What better way to celebrate the fruition of facial hair than with some moustache related music? Jimi Hendrix – ‘Machine Gun’ Whilst this twelve-and-a-half-minute epic starts with clean, whooshing guitar effects, Hendrix still brings the fuzz...
  • Album Review: Calvin Harris – Motion

    Last week, Calvin Harris released his fourth studio album ‘Motion’ and, although not a ground breaking new sound, it’s likely that this will knock Taylor Swift off the top spot in the album charts next Sunday. The album focuses on Harris’ trademark ‘club music’ sound and it’s clear many of...
  • Album Review: Taylor Swift – 1989

    Following worldwide hits such as ‘We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together’ and ‘I Knew You Were Trouble’, Taylor Swift has slowly been moving in a more pop-oriented direction, headed mainly by Swedish producer Max Martin. 1989, however, is the first time Taylor has placed the whole genre under...
  • Live Review: April Towers, The Bodega (6/11/14)

                ‘When we started the project it wasn’t intended to be a live thing, we wrote some electronic music and then it was like, ‘how do you interpret that live?”’ Intentional or not, April Towers are now a fully fabricated live act. Following a string of supporting tour dates...
  • Live Review: Nick Mulvey, Rescue Rooms (31/10/2014)

    Nick Mulvey stakes his claim as a rival to the acoustic juggernauts of Ben Howard and Ed Sheeran in this ethereal evening of soothing songs and sweet melodies. While there wasn’t an abundance of difference between his live set and the album, this didn’t detract much from Nick’s overall...
  • Interview: Slaves

    Laurie’s jumping on the table playing his bass while Isaac and another man are sat, seemingly chanting at him. You can’t help but feel boring, walking in to their dressing room, announcing you’ve come in to do the interview, and they probably need to stop. Laurie leaves the room to...