Tag: indie rock
Album Review: DMA’s – For Now
DMA's are an Australian rock band who have been receiving a lot of attention of recent. They have a very interesting cross-section of influences, ranging...
Forget This! Arctic Monkeys – AM
It’s a perfectly listenable album, but for a group as talented as the Arctic Monkeys, I expect more, and they’ve always delivered before
I love...
Album Review: MGMT – Little Dark Age
In 2007, Connecticut-born Indie-Rock duo MGMT (made up of multi-instrumentalists Andrew VanWyngarden and Ben Goldwasser) released their spell-binding debut Oracular Spectacular. Simmering with synth-laden poppy...
Another Arrogant Wannabe: An Interview with Rory Wynne
The music industry is littered with mercurial characters. If nothing else it’s a way of creating a mystique and intrigue around your music and...
Omelettes, Girl Bands & Sneezing: an Interview with The Big Moon
Indie rock bands that are worth listening to are somewhat few and far between at the moment. The Big Moon have ideas however, with...
Live Review: Bear’s Den @ Exeter Lemon Grove
The artwork on the cover of Bear’s Den’s latest record, Red Earth and Pouring Rain, gives you the wrong idea about the band. The...
Grandaddy – Last Place Album Review
There are not too many things surviving from my teenage years which I can look back on and not wince in some degree of...
Live Review: Amber Run @ Exeter Phoenix
Amber Run returned to Exeter to play Phoenix off the back of their new album, For A Moment, I Was Lost. Support came from...
Album Review: Elbow – Little Fictions
I first fell in love with Guy Garvey after being introduced to The Seldom Seen Kid by a dear friend in high school. I...
Album Review – Ty Segall – s/t
Traditionally, the mid-career eponymous album release is spun one of two ways - restatement or reinvention. In the first case, the artist looks to...
