LIVE: Download Festival 2025 – Friday

Twenty two summers in, and Download shows no sign of ever slowing down. With a lineup to thrill everyone from hardcore slammers through to pop punk kids, the biggest weekend of the year channels the spirit of independence from the get go. By the time Friday closes, we’ll have

Hot Milk – ‘Corporation Pop’

“Listen mate, it’s a social commentary, calm down…but it’s kinda true,” reassures vocalist Han Mee halfway through ‘Insubordinate Ingerland’, the second track on Hot Milk’s latest studio album. Her line is the perfect summary for where ‘Corporation Pop’ is coming from. We all know that “Hot Milk is an

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LIVE: Slam Dunk South 2025

Slam Dunk South; traditional kick off to the UK festival season, it delivers the elusive festival highs and global lineup that sets the bar for the rest of the summer. A political undercurrent cuts through the day, like the rain clouds which threatened and never burst into controversy, but

LIVE: Chuck Ragan @ The Garage, London

A lot’s happened for Chuck Ragan since he was last in the UK at the start of 2024. ‘Love and Lore’, his fifth solo album and first in a decade dropped late last year, proving that he still wrestles with the dilemmas caused by the siren song of tour

LIVE: Hundred Reasons @ The Royal Albert Hall, London

If you’re going to retire as a band after two and a half decades, you may as well do it in style. When Hundred Reasons announced a Royal Albert Hall spectacular last summer, we had no idea that it would be their last- that news would come eight weeks

Sleep Token – Even In Arcadia

While Vessel’s identity remains a closely guarded secret, we can say for certain he’s someone who’s fallen in and out of love since 2023’s ‘Take Me Back To Eden’. Loss and longing run through ‘Even In Arcadia’ like scarlet threads, providing the structure that marks an otherwise very lo-fi

LIVE: Incubus @ The O2 Arena

While Incubus’ ‘Morning View’ might have been overshadowed by some of 2001’s more iconic releases, it stands as a snapshot of a moment in time for both the band and us. It’s also an album that fundamentally deserves a renaissance, and it seems that time has finally come. After

LIVE: Ghost @ the O2, London

Like so much about Ghost, tonight is shrouded in mystery. With the band’s experimental phone ban meaning that no details about the shows could be shared online, and a dark silken shroud covering the stage, a rare element of total surprise about what Papa V Perpetua and his Nameless