Alex Neely

Unclassifiable Californian twins The Garden arrive at Nottingham’s Bodega as part of a tour in support of recently-released second album haha, bringing young Brixton punks Shame as support. Wyatt and Fletcher Shears, the Orange County identical twins who make up The Garden, have termed their punk / rap hybrid...

Over the last half a decade, each Deerhunter album appears to have coincided with a traumatic period in lead-singer Bradford Cox’s life. Their 2010 album Halycon Digest and Cox’s solo 2011 album Parallax were as a result of the deaths of two close friends, while 2013’s Monomania was a...

Missouri garage-punk trio Radkey return to Nottingham in support of this year’s debut album Dark Black Makeup, with Wolverhampton two-piece God Damn in tow. Since their appearance on Jools Holland two years ago, the three home-schooled Radke brothers that make up Radkey have slowly, but surely, built a reputation...

The recently reformed shoegaze heroes arrive in Nottingham’s Rock City twenty four years after their last visit to play their seminal debut album, Nowhere, in full. It was announced shortly before the tour that there would, in fact, be no support band and Ride would play two sets –...

The second effort from Edinburgh’s The Spook School is exhilarating, thought-provoking and unashamedly brilliant. On 2013’s Dress Up, we heard the sound of a band still figuring out who they were; their C86-inspired indie-pop impressive but perhaps lacking a certain degree of self-confidence. On Try To Be Hopeful, the...

Protomartyr return with a third full-length effort, which is not only their best to date, but certainly one of the best of 2015. Since their inception as a band half a decade ago, the Detroit-based four-piece have largely found a sound and stuck to it, preferring to hone and...

Nai Harvest’s second full-length effort sees them embrace Britpop, squeaky clean productions and huge, huge hooks. The Sheffield duo’s previous songwriting efforts had shown undoubted promise but remained disjointed, scrappy emo rock. The emergence of ‘Buttercups’ last year changed all this, immediately throwing Nai Harvest forward as a band...