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Single Review: Courtney Barnett – Everybody Here Hates You

Barnett’s new single is emblematic of the same internalised paranoia that characterised her last awesome album: Tell Me How You Really Feel. She expressed in an email bulletin that she was afraid the lyrics were too personal for the song to even make it to recording. And they certainly are intense: dealing with how said […]

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 […]

Album Review: Interpol’s Marauder

When compared to the avalanche of indie rock bands that sprung from the New York concrete in the early 2000s, Interpol are something of an exception. With the principle founders meeting in a history class on the First World War at NYU, ‘rock n’ roll’ is hardly a phrase that springs to mind. However, unlike […]

Live Review: Darwin Deez @ Thekla Bristol + Interview w/ Darwin Merwan Smith

On Wednesday 3rd of October, Darwin Deez took the stage at Bristol’s Thekla to perform their new album that came out late August entitled 10 Songs That Happened When You Left Me With My Stupid Heart. This being their fourth album it was interesting to see the journey they had made from their first album. […]

“The only thing we know how to do is write songs”: An Interview with Naked Giants’ Grant Mullen

Grant Mullen is the frontman for Seattle-based indie-rock outfit Naked Giants, as well as a guitarist and vocalist in the most recent iteration of indie sensation Car Seat Headrest. The two bands are currently touring together following the release of Naked Giants’ grungy garage-rock debut SLUFF, as well as Car Seat Headrest’s re-recorded re-release of […]

Live Review: Naked Giants and Car Seat Headrest

Disclosure: as a fairly new fan, I can’t name every song Naked Giants and Car Seat Headrest played during their concert at Bristol’s SWX centre. But what I’m certain of is that they played them fantastically. Here’s how it went down: The show starts promptly at 7.30 with a fifty-minute set from up-and-coming Seattle indie […]