Online Music Editor Stephen Ong reviews 18 hours of Radiohead demos.
Live Review: Better Oblivion Community Centre @ O2 Academy, Bristol
Online Music Editor Stephen Ong reviews Better Oblivion Community Centre’s live show.
Album Review: Vampire Weekend – Father of the Bride
Online Music Editor Stephen Ong reviews Vampire Weekend’s comeback album.
Album Review: Cage The Elephant – Social Cues
Cage The Elephant have evolved immensely across their discography, retaining a hint of blues throughout their forays into punk, garage rock, and noise rock. Social Cues marks the longest wait between albums yet (not counting the acoustic Unpeeled), coming after the setback that was their last album; the band had found an identifiable sound on […]
Live Review: Vampire Weekend @ Islington Assembly Hall
In anticipation of their upcoming album Father of the Bride, Vampire Weekend played ‘Three Little London Shows’, and my friend and I were two of 800 lucky people who waited in London’s Islington Assembly Hall to see one of indie music’s most influential bands. Glorified rehearsals they may have been, but they gave the opportunity […]
Live Review: The 1975 @ Westpoint, Exeter
“Rock and roll is dead, God bless The 1975,” flash the LED screens as the band finish playing ‘Sex’, the final song of the night. Only bands of the biggest ego could make such a claim, and it is frontman Matty Healy’s flamboyant, ineffable charisma that allows them to own the statement. God knows why […]