Easy Life: the band formed in a pub that captures a 2020 aura Holly Lamb discusses and appreciates the interesting and alternative sound of band Easy Life. Easy Life’s chaotic, slighty confused, and hazy music can be heard from the headphones of teenagers across the UK. The lively blend of jazz, funk and elements of […]
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Stop the Press? The End of the Printed NME
Goodbye to the days of NME in print. I’ll be among the indie teens, old rockers and new music lovers who will miss feeling the printed reels of smooth paper between their fingertips. Goodbye to those pages imbued with the passion of countless, brutal yet prestigious, music journalists. Being a long-time lover of NME, a […]
Album Review: Wolf Alice – Visions of a Life
North London quartet Wolf Alice’s second LP Visions of a Life is released today, and is one of the year’s most anticipated alternative/indie releases after the huge success of debut My Love is Cool. With the new record’s predecessor making the ‘Best Albums of the Year’ lists in The Guardian, NME, Q and Rough Trade, […]
Album Review: The National – Sleep Well Beast
‘America’s Radiohead’ The National have brought forth their latest album Sleep Well Beast, meaning like many other delightful things such as Wonders of the World and the Harry Potter novels, their album discography now totals a glorious collection of seven. Frontman Matt Berninger, whose deep, baritone vocals at times parallel Ian Curtis and Ricky Wilson, […]
Album Review: Alvvays – Antisocialites
Described by Mojo as not sounding far off The Velvet Underground, Canadian indie pop favourites Alvvays brought smiles to fans around the globe with the release of their second LP Antisocialites last week; a release which sounds comfortably familiar yet also shows a mature progress as an experienced band. Similarly to their eponymous debut, the […]
Album Review: The Amazons – The Amazons
Shortlisted for the BBC Music Sound of 2017 poll, nominated for Q’s Best Breakthrough Act gong and listed as one to watch out for in 2017 by MTV, BBC Radio 1 and the NME, Reading rockers The Amazons have quickly risen to the top since their formation in 2014. With the support of music press […]
Preview: NME Awards Tour
The current British indie scene resembles something close to a barren musical wasteland of copycats, wannabe’s and has-beens. Only last week Leicester-based rockers Kasabian declared guitar music as ‘dead’. With the red-haired, corporate people pleaser Ed Sheeran standing aloft the charts and breaking records left, right and centre there has been little to no reaction […]
Live Review: NME Awards Tour
It’s been a big last few months for the NME, a former torchbearer in the realm of independent music, representing all that is alternative and against the grain. However, following a big rebranding exercise back in September that saw the magazine be given away for free across the country, alongside some slightly controversial cover stars […]