Interview: Swim Deep
Swim Deep look like they’ve stepped out of a ‘90s Cameron Crowe slacker flick to lounge on your sofa and flip dejectedly through your magazines. Beyond the ripped denim and oversized Nirvana tees,...
View ArticleEP Review: Peace – Delicious
Just like the juicy slices of neon watermelon atop some trippy murky-coloured water marble depicted on the cover of Peace’s debut EP, the four tracks contained within are individual segments of tasty...
View ArticleBBC’s Sound of 2013
Each year, BBC News compiles a list of rising bands and artists. 213 UK critics, bloggers, DJs, etc. name their three new faves and BBC reveals the five winners of a longlist over the course of five...
View ArticleIssue 61 Introducing: Wolf Alice, King Dinosaur, Strange Hands
Here are some new bands we wrote about in Issue 61! Strange Hands The flag bearers for French music, apart from our FOB artist Madeon have been Kitsuné and Domino artists. But what about the...
View ArticleIntroducing: Jaws
It’s been hard to ignore the nascent promise of Birmingham’s Jaws in recent months. The garage-oriented, lo-fi four-piece were – alongside their hometown peers Peace and Swim Deep, both of whom they’ve...
View ArticleIntroducing our BOTW: Jaws
While their Brummie peers – and tourmates – Peace and Swim Deep have been making a big noise recently, Birmingham four-piece Jaws have been gathering their fair share of whispers as B-town’s best-kept...
View ArticleBOTW Video: Jaws –‘Friend Like You’
Having only been gigging together for a year now, you could certainly be forgiven for thinking that Birmingham’s Jaws were jumping the gun a little by releasing a video composed of tour footage for...
View ArticleBOTW Interview: Jaws
We caught up with our current BOTW, Birmingham four-piece Jaws, ahead of an intimate London show at Dalston’s Birthdays. Against a backdrop of Black Sabbath’s ‘Iron Man’ – appropriately enough, given...
View ArticleLive Review: Peace @ Birthdays, Dalston
To wrap up their UK tour, Birmingham alt-rock revivalists Peace recently undertook a four-day residency at Dalston’s Birthdays; day two of which featured London’s very own O. Children supporting....
View ArticleIn Focus: Brit Rhythm Rules!
It’s easy to forget as residents of this sceptre isle, that we make or are the origin of practically all brilliant music. Britain sets the trends, has the infrastructure to birth and nurture young,...
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