I remember hearing this album for the first time vividly. As a huge Pixies fan, I was excited when the erstwhile Black ...

Einar Selvik’s vision, as always, is vast and deeply introspective, yet Birna takes this further. The bear becomes a mirror, ...

The current mindset of a musician can be read into the way tracks are spelt on an album. On predecessor acts of rebellion ...

Desperate Journalist are on a strict curfew so don't fuck about. Apparently a disco is far more important. Not to anyone in ...

What should have been a hop, skip, and a jump up the M1 was a prolonged slog out of Nottingham. Bless you, you are a ...

Bodega is a brilliant venue. It's just small enough to be intimate but feels like a big room even though it's a tight squeeze ...

On ‘It Wasn’t Me’ from her ninth solo album, Showtunes from the Shadows, Helen McCookerybook sings, “I’m a chameleon / I’ve ...

Anton Newcombe is a couple of minutes late joining our zoom. He apologises quickly and without fuss. Safe in a snowy Berlin, the Los Angeles wildfires on the ...

One of my favourite things each year is hearing debut albums. There is just something so exciting about hearing what up-and-coming artists and bands have to offer. For example, last year, Prelude To ...

One of the toughest things for a musician to do is to follow up an acclaimed album, even more so if it is a debut album. There are high expectations (usually, ...

In The Spotlight, is a series of podcast interviews with artists and figures, where Bill Cummings finds out more about their ...