Photo by Joanna Galvin.
One half of the lo-fi super couple giving hope to indie music again (frontwoman Bethany Cosentino is currently dating Wavves’ Nathan Williams), Best Coast’s reverb-heavy surf rock is refreshing when you look at what else is around, and it’s even better than they’re doing well. Fresh from selling out Shoreditch’s Cargo on Monday (2nd August), Best Coast saw off their UK tour last night with an enjoyable instore at Rough Trade East. More
Shortly ahead of the release of their sophomore album, Champ, (out Monday), Tokyo Police Club took to the stage at Scala and once again proved why they’re a band that deserve to be selling out stadiums. More
(image by Eimear Connolly)
I think it’s fair to say White Rabbits enjoy drumming. Last week when the New York band took to the stage at London’s The Garage venue, the set-up was fairly standard but only hardened fans would know the damage the second pair of drums should expect. More
With a cold front landing on Austin, nevermind a little more unwanted rain, the SXSW crowd were a little taken a-back on the final day, but that didn’t mean the line-up was any less impressive, just the outdoor stages were a little more empty. The day show at Galaxy Room, however, was half indoor, and the inside stage boasted some of the best bands at the festival. More
The third day at SXSW is always the day you crash. Hungover, starved of sleep and energy and with ears that had to quickly get used to a hell of a lot of music, Thursday is always so hectic that on Friday you have to take it easy. More
Thursday at SXSW is always the busiest; everyone is in town, they’ve acclimatised to the festival and are ready to really throw themselves into it. More
It’s taken almost a week but at last we’ve just about recovered from this year’s South By Southwest. More
To celebrate the release of the next instalment in their amazing Maison compilations, Kitsuné took over Scala, London, on Saturday 20th June. Put on in association with Neon Noise Project, in between the bands much-hyped DJ duo Aeroplane spun electro tracks from throughout the decades, but the real attraction were the live performances on offer. More
Cold War Kids’ new record comes out next week, this time released to a hive of excitement as a band now on the forefront of the indie business. ‘Loyalty to Loyalty’ foregoes the anthemic choruses that made ‘Robbers and Cowards’ so memorable and yet slightly aggrivating, to produce a supremely mature and cultured sophomore album.
Full review coming next issue, but let’s just say in the mean time… we’ll be giving it 4/5.
