See: Love Buzzard release new video for Cash
Filthy riffs and sordid drums lay the foundations for Love Buzzard, a London based band that we just can’t stop listening to. The band have been going strong for three years, and after support slots with Cerebral Ballzy, Slaves and God Damn, their debut album Antifistamines (due for release 12.2.16) contains the same amount of …
Album Review: Sunflower Bean – Human Ceremony
By Ryan Jameson Weaver Our music industry moves so fast that a band can come out with something so unique and amazing that it is relevant for a week and then bounces into waves anonymity right after. Take for example, the last My Bloody Valentine album, MBV, an album 20 years in the making, from …
Track: Cullen Omori – Cinnamon
By Ryan Jameson Weaver Not many people know this, but Smith Westerns were an incredibly special band. They crafted delectable teenage gospel in a way that was almost purposefully harking back to their past but proud and boastful enough that it lived on its own. They were snotty Chicago kids encapsulating the hype machine of …
Live Review: Slaves – 02 Academy, Leeds, 10.11.2015
Slaves; the two-piece from Tunbridge Wells that unexpectedly rose to fame in 2015. Their debut album reached number eight in the UK album charts, they played Glastonbury festival several times in one year, they brought grime and punk together with their incredible cover of Skepta’s ‘Shutdown, they sold out their November tour with demand for …
Track: Mood Robot – Drip
By Ryan Jameson Weaver Los Angeles synth-pop trio Mood Robot (Jenny Helms, Alex Kazenoff, Ben Kazenoff), have been steadily releasing a sleek catalog of one-off velvet gems for the past year or so with each release giving us more awareness to their acuity of making PBR&B saccharine cuts. Their newest single, Drip, furthers this testament …
Track: Forced Random – Go Get It
By Ryan Jameson Weaver Go Get It, the latest track from Forced Random, is a paramount of tantalizing proportions. It is an anthemic cut that will pull at your heartstrings with its introspective guise and bring you up with its upward mobility. The slow, thrashing, wall of noise unfolds in front of you like dominoes …
Live: Maxïmo Park – Rock City, Nottingham – 15-12-15
I first saw Maxïmo Park as a gawky twelve-year-old at Sheffield Octagon with me dad and a mate, on their UK tour for their debut record, A Certain Trigger. The high energy set saw a smartly-dressed Paul Smith with characteristic hat pogo-ing around on stage to the delight of the crowd. Ten years on and nothing …
Track: Cage The Elephant – Trouble + tour dates.
By Ryan Jameson Weaver Do you remember listening to Cage The Elephant for the first time? I do. I was immediately drawn in by this larger than life figure they imbued. Who was this witty and snotty rock star with bombastic sing-along lyrics about doing things for the thrill? They burst on the scene as …
Track The Wainwright Sisters – Lullaby
Montreal’s Martha Wainwright comes from Canadian musical royalty, being the daughter of Kate McGarrigle and sister of Rufus Wainwright. She and her American half-sister Lucy Wainwright Roche have released an album of lullabies, some of them a little twisted. “Lullaby” is gentle and beautiful, but with lines like “Shut up and count some sheep/Do me …
EP: JOHN – Validation
Fancy something heavy and riff-y this Christmas? Duo, JOHN, have just released their gritty second EP, Validation, and it’s more than worthy of going on your Christmas list this year. JOHN are exactly what they say on the tin, sort of. They’re a duo made up of two members both called John and a love …