The bard of Newcastle upon Tyne in stripped-back, bare-bones mode delivers his most intimate – and perhaps his best – album ...

The final concert of the late, great German saxophonist and clarinetist, recorded a year ago at London's Cafe Oto, makes for ...

There’s a certain strand of Australian, often from Melbourne, who have left the land of summer heat and cod-LA suburbia to ...

It was like we hadn’t been away,” says Gabe Gurnsey. “It felt like the best of the shows that we were playing before and to ...

Noel Gardner summons up the best of punk and hardcore for February 2025 with reviews of highlights including Ta2reeban, Seein ...

Angus Batey remembers how 40 years ago the classic Smiths second album helped change the direction of his life ...

The Villager’s Companion, you will be unsurprised to learn, is a sibling to Califone ’s previous album Villagers. Like an ...

Sophia Djebel Rose first started singing in her early twenties while she was living in Lyon studying philosophy. A night of ...

Chris Watson is the Sibelius of the tape recorder. Ahead of his appearance with Felicia Atkinson at Kings Place next month, Luke Turner speaks to him about twelve key points in his career from early ...

Making an early bid for AOTY Jules Reidy hits their stride with a unique combination of micro tuning, Auto-Tune & ecstatic ...

There’s a charming lack of cynicism to the Manic Street Preachers ’ new album, Critical Thinking. Despite concerning ...

Jem Stone celebrates his punk rock: the DIY indie pop of The Sea Urchins, the Pooh Sticks, The Clouds and Talulah Gosh ...