Ian Evans – Lapsang Souchong

Meet Ian Evans – formerly of band Elevenses – a(nother) unsigned, London based singer songwriter. ‘Lapsang Souchong’ is his second solo album, released back in 2007. Emerging after his debut ‘The Post Office Tower,’ it showcased a clear progression … Read More

Cosmo Jarvis – Gay Pirates

What can I say? I simply love Cosmo Jarvis! He’s brilliant, with a tongue as sharp as razor, but that tells the truth (read the interview here) and he creates very good music,  so he’s got what it takes … Read More

The Wombats – Jump Into The Fog

The Wombats, after the critical acclaimed come back single Tokyo (Vampires & Wolves) give the audience a new taste of their second album, The Modern Glitch, set to be released 1st April. Tokyo has already announced a changing in … Read More

The Dreadnoughts – Polka’s Not Dead

Get your drinking hats on and dig out the battered old fiddle, we’re going out to punk it up, international gypsy style. The Dreadnoughts are, with their second album, taking us kicking and screaming on a gleeful tour of … Read More

Architects – The Here And Now

The devil may have many names, but equally a rose by any other name may smell just as sweet. And with that appropriately portentous opening, I say hello screamo/hardcore/metalcore/post-hardcore, we meet again. Anyone who has followed my reviews may … Read More

R.E.M. – Collapse Into Now

Stuck in a tiny bar in central London, I am one of the few privileged who has the chance to listen to the new R.E.M. album. The venue is small and the P.A. system is a disgrace, I am … Read More

Zeni Danussi – My Guitar Bleeds EP

Bringing us the finest in prog-tinged metal shredding, Zeni Danussi’s EP ‘My Guitar Bleeds’ is no mere exercise in talented wankery, but a real stab at instrumental expression that eschews the rampant pretentiousness and turgid scale-bothering that so many … Read More

Social Distortion – Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes

The urban ghost of Johnny Thunders haunts the dusty night backroads of America’s lost highways in Social Distortion’s new release, ‘Hard Times And Nursery Rhymes’. After six years, the band finally give us what we wanted: something exciting, something … Read More

Heidi Spencer & The Rare Birds – Under Streetlight Glow

Heidi Spencer comes from Wisconsin, the state in Midwest between Superior Lake and Michigan Lake, carrying with her feelings and emotion of those lands.

The new Americana sensation is the last of the romantic trobadours, still young but already … Read More

Joan As A Police Woman – The Magic

Taking a step away from the contemplative, almost classical sound of her excellent 2008 album To Survive, Joan As Police Woman returns with newly released single The Magic. While I wouldn’t exactly describe it as the polar opposite of … Read More