2000trees: Every Time I Die

LIVE: 2000Trees Festival 2019 – Saturday

2000trees is advertised as being a ‘medium’ sized festival, but while medium can suggest mediocrity be misconstrued as ‘average’, nothing about the scorching weekend feels mediocre. With alternative fans from all of the country coming together to celebrate our special scene, 2000trees pens itself as one of the best

Mood Board: Oso Oso

LIVE: Bloodstock Open Air 2019 – Saturday

Saturday, in festival land, is ‘the big one’. The day that sees weekend crowds nicely warmed up, but not quite so hungover they can no longer function (hi, Sunday), and day ticket crowds appear in droves; not unconnected, it’s also usually where you’ll find some of the most broadly

LIVE: Bloodstock Open Air 2019 – Friday

Taking over a few fields in the Midlands every year, Bloodstock is assuredly the metalhead’s metal festival. Bringing the heaviest of heavy music, including many bands you’d be very unlikely to find at any other UK weekend festivals, it’s a family-run and incredibly well organised affair, with it’s ‘medium

The Murder Capital – ‘When I Have Fears’

The Irish alternative scene is thriving right now. Self-made and independent bands regularly pack hundreds of fans into cramped bars and local venues. Despite the loss of some of Dublin City’s most historic music venues, Irish punk refuses to go down without a fight. The house might

Off With Their Heads – ‘Be Good’

When there is chaos everywhere you look, whenever you read the news and all you see is tragedy and hate, when the cries to stop killing the planet are ignored and when there is a buffoon in charge on both sides of the Atlantic and all you

Cultdreams – ‘Things That Hurt’

It’s one thing to deal with trauma. It’s another to grow up with it, and to express and accept it through music. Yet Cultdreams’ pairing of Lucinda Livingstone and Conor Dawson, formerly known as Kamikaze Girls, are doing just that with ‘Things That Hurt’, the followup to

Oso Oso – ‘Basking In The Glow’

Oso Oso know about cynicism. That cynical, pessimistic outlook is what Jade Lilitri has spent his life writing about. Lilitri’s solo project after State Lines went on indefinite hiatus, he initially struggled to find a label for last year’s sophomore album ‘The Yunahon Mixtape’, before being courted by record

Boston Manor: “I’ve not come up with some hot take that the world needs to know about, I’m just expressing my feelings”