GALLERY: Fake Names – ‘Punk Ruins’

What do you do when your punk band of several decades pulls down the metaphorical shutters on making music? The options for unemployed frontmen boil down to starting a label or becoming a graffiti artist, but Dennis Lyxzén of Refused took the third path; reignite the supergroup. After teaming →

GALLERY: FAVOURITES: Feldspar

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GALLERY: Like Roses – ‘After It Ends’

If we’re going by endorsements alone, Like Roses are the new gold standard. Sleeping With Sirens have deemed the Bay Area pop-punkers to be the perfect tour mates for their next outing, and the New York Times have called them proof that “the dream of emo is alive”, a →

GALLERY: LIVE: Creeper, Calva Louise + Starbenders @ Manchester Academy 1

It wouldn’t be spooky season without Creeper playing at least one show during the Halloween period. For the last few years, they’ve made it their mission play at least one show in the month of October, this year bestowing four dates upon us across the country. Tonight is Manchester’s →

GALLERY: Creeper, Calva Louise, Starbenders @ Manchester Academy 1

GALLERY: Moni Jitchell – ‘AWARE’

Many things can attract you to a band. Maybe it’s a catchy single, maybe it’s a cool photoshoot, maybe it’s because their name is an amusing spoonerism. In the case of Moni Jitchell, it’s unlikely to be the first two. The Scottish duo make music for a →

GALLERY: Venus Grrrls – ‘To Die As Lovers May’

Maybe you’re a romantic. You find beauty in tragedy. You dream of windswept moors and ruined cathedrals. Of Cathy and Heathcliff. When you close your eyes you imagine your back being pressed against a gravestone, a hand sliding up your thigh. You exist between darkness and the →

GALLERY: Unpeople – ‘We Are Unpeople’

If anyone can save the world, it’s Unpeople. In their jet-propelled rise to stardom, they’ve inspired dance parties at Download at a time when any sane person is hiding in their tent with a bacon sandwich, taken over a corner of Slam Dunk’s main stage and even persuaded Metallica →

GALLERY: Love Is Noise – ‘THE SPACE BETWEEN HAPPINESS AND HEARTACHE’

If you have a big family you may have seen this play out. It’s Christmas. A boy who we’ll call Harry opens a huge present. Inside is a marvellous gift covered in bells and whistles that must have cost a fortune. But Harry isn’t happy. He bursts →

GALLERY: INTERVIEW: Unpeople

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GALLERY: Beartooth, Silverstein @ O2 Academy Brixton

GALLERY: LIVE: Beartooth + Silverstein @ O2 Academy Brixton

‘I Am The War’ proclaims everyone’s shirts – after a quick change at the merch stand, that is – so a casual observer would be forgiven for thinking tonight was going to be a militant affair. The war that Beartooth are winning, however, is one against the haters and →

GALLERY: (hed) p.e. @ The 1865, Southampton

GALLERY: FEATURE: Edinburgh Fringe 2026

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GALLERY: Prodigal – ‘THE FLOATING WORLD’

In the Gospel of Luke, Jesus tells the ‘Parable of the Prodigal Son’. In the story, the son uses up all his riches, returns to his roots, and is embraced. This, as we shall see, is a fitting way to describe Prodigal’s debut EP ‘The Floating World’. →

GALLERY: LIVE: Death Cab For Cutie @ Troxy

You’d probably expect the crowd for a band with “a considerable amount of songs about death” to be a miserable bunch, but far from it. The Troxy’s packed with jovial city types slamming pints, a surprising touch of Friday night normality in the little bubble of sensitivity and emotional →

GALLERY: Butcher Babies – ‘NIGHTBLOOM’

During the spring, up at the lake, the birds make nests. If you head up there early morning, you can watch the hatchlings take to the water. They’re yellow, fluffy and cute. Within a few weeks that picture begins to change. They start to grow. They become →

GALLERY: Fifty Years of Punk with Bandcamp

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GALLERY: Split Dogs – ‘Nice N’ Rough’

Three albums in, and Split Dogs are hitting their stride. If we’re being picky though, ‘strut’ would be a far better verb for the kind of energy that they’re putting out: a dirty cocktail of garage punk and the big-haired charisma of seventies stadium superstars. ‘Nice N Rough’ is →

GALLERY: Gallus – ‘Life Is Bliss’

There are a few things in music that have a direct path to the pleasure centre of my brain. Fuzzed out bass, high energy riffs, and a filthy Glaswegian accent are all at the top of that list. What a treat to have all three served to me →