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During the Great Escape festival, central Brighton feels like a slightly sleazier, moodier version of one of those waiting rooms on the X Factor. Almost everyone you see seems to have just come off stage or be waiting their turn.…
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Live Review: Flea and the Honora Band – KOKO, London (26/05/2026)
For more than forty years, Michael “Flea” Balzary has been ploughing through the shifting tides of rock history at its frontline. With his debut solo jazz album, Honora, Flea is paying tribute to his childhood heavily influenced by his jazz-musician…
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Live Review: caroline, Knockdown Center – New York (21/05/26)
“It brought to mind a wave returning again and again to crash against a rocky and lichenous shore: never the same, and always the same.”
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Album Review: Inferno – Boards of Canada (Warp Records)
Just shy of thirty years after their explosive debut album’s release, Boards of Canada are back, and their new album Inferno proves to the world that age is just a number. Inferno moves from funny to innovative to dancy and…
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Live Review: Patti Smith – The Brighton Dome, 12/05/26
“You didn’t need to be in the audience at CBGB’s in the seventies to feel Patti Smith at her best. THIS was Patti Smith at her best. This is Patti Smith. Fuck the clock.”
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Live Review: My New Band Believe – Earth, Hackney 02/05/2026
“Numerology”, that fierce electronic behemoth I mentioned earlier, is played here completely acoustically—if that’s at all possible, and not something I dreamed up. This reimagining creates a sense of panic and trepidation, the drummer embodying the final scene of Whiplash…
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Single Review: Nina Winder-Lind – This is Our Life (Transgressive)
Nina Winder-Lind, the Brighton-based Swedish musician famous for being the cellist, guitarist and vocalist of the New Eves, has released a single with Transgressive Records, the same company the New Eves are signed with. In true Wu-Tang style, the individual…
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Spring Soundtrack: 4 Albums To Soundtrack Your Spring
Each year, as winter’s grip loosens and spring wonders whether to begin, it’s starting to feel as though the world is slowly coming back to itself, once again. As British tradition dictates, one single sighting of the sun and there…
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Single Review: Melt – Find Somebody
Since the success of their first single Sour Candy, which went viral while the members were still in high school, New York City band Melt have tried to find their footing. At that time they had seven members. Now they…
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Live Review : Ásgeir, Islington Assembly Hall , London – 22/04/26
“Ásgeir and his band were, to borrow a song title from James Blunt himself, Three Wise Men indeed.”