The praise Those Darlins received for their recently released album, Screws Get Loose, will be reverberating around the band members’ minds for quite some time. The critics loved the wild sounds and full-throttle fearless noise the group laid out. With...Read More »

If you want to find out more about Damien Jurado – get an insight into a beautiful creative soul – don’t read this interview. He doesn’t really reveal much. His three-word answer regarding music videos is particularly unenlightening. Maybe it...Read More »

It’s beginning to become a cliché to say that they must put something in the water over in Sweden to produce so many high quality musicians. But they must put something in the water, right? We’re not saying it’s drugs....Read More »

Ramona Gonzalez – otherwise known as Nite Jewel – has proved a couple of things with her album One Second of Love. 1) She’s got a good ear for a tune, particularly of the sublime dark pop variety. 2) She’s...Read More »

Google Die Hard and all you get are links to Bruce Willis movies. That’s not a bad thing if you’re in the mood for watching some of John McLane’s gun totting action. We were … well only for the first...Read More »

Here are some facts about about Detroit indie-pop band Dale Earnhardt Jr Jr – facts that we can’t and won’t substantiate. 1) Their music is enjoyed by the real Dale Earnhardt Jr. 2) One of them had a career epiphnay...Read More »

Piney Gir’s 2011 album Geronimo was another chapter in what is an under-rated career. She was able to craft beautiful indie pop songs that owed a debt to the 60s sounds of Spector and the Beach Boys. It was music...Read More »

Diagrams are currently winning. They’re winning in our office, in music and in life. Their debut album Black Light was worth waiting for after they’d tantalised us with a sublime EP. So, we had questions – questions about their influences,...Read More »

Last year’s self-titled album from Wild Flag – a band formed of members of The Minders, Sleater Kinney, Quasi, Autoclave and Helium – has always been near the office stereo ever since it was released back in September. When we’re...Read More »

After a long period of internet buzz (check their single Candy Girl/You Wish You Were Red) the Trailer Trash Tracys release their debut record, Ester, next week. It’s a collection of broken down pop and introspective dreams – just the...Read More »