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Japandroids
Brian King from Japandroids has no money and sells his possessions to pay the rent, but his band’s second record is called ‘Celebration Rock’. He tells Daniel Ross all his reasons to be cheerful…
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Win: Japandroids Tickets
Canadian twosome Japandroids play a The Fly Presents show upstairs at the Garage in London on 29th May. Read our Japandroids feature online here. If you’d like to be in with a chance of … Enter here »
Great Escape 2012
Liam Lidbetter scours Britain’s very own South-By-On-Sea… Read More »
Great Escape 2012: Saturday Roundup
Aiden Grimshaw is a shiny on-the-cusp-of-being-massive pop star from Blackpool. Milk Music are a largely unknown, artfully loud band from Olympia, Washington. Both played a starring role on the … Read More »
The Great Escape 2012: Swim Deep
How’s Brighton been so far? Austin Williams: It’s alive, electric, especially since the sun came out. I’ve not been here before. So far, I don’t remember much. Cav, what’s a word to … Read More »
Great Escape 2012: Thursday Roundup
Click here to see Ben Kweller, to listen to our podcast, and to see a gallery of bands from last night in Brighton… Read More »
The Cribs
“Make me happy by not chanting Yorkshire” tweeted The Cribs’ Ryan Jarman before a recent London show, laying bare the well documented dislike he and his band of brothers have for the … Read More »
#14 Guy Connelly, Clock Opera
Guy from Clock Opera on eternal Thursdays, double decker trains and the wistful romance on an unsent letter… Read More »
The Great Escape 2012: Your Essential Preview
The Dos and Don’ts of the UK’s answer to SXSW… Read More »
Of Montreal
While Of Montreal’s albums are frequently divisive, it’s in live shows that the band’s (or, more accurately, Kevin Barnes’) strange, freakish meanderings are substantiated. The records … Read More »
Santigold
“I’d like to thank my band/ pantomime horse” is not something you hear many acts say from the stage of a small club show, but then Santigold is not your average pop star. Back after a … Read More »
The Magnetic Fields
We arrive as The Tender Trap, the ‘latest’ incarnation of C86 dreamboat Amelia ‘Talulah Gosh/Heavenly’ Fletcher’s winsome muse, rip through the kind of sweet, hair-slide pop music … Read More »
DZ Deathrays
We know a damn good noise rock debut when we hear one. The last time you’ll have been this vigorously aurally assaulted by two shaggy-haired boys was when DFA 1979 dropped ‘You’re A Woman, … Read More »
I Like Trains
I Like Trains ‘The Shallows’ (I Like Records) We wouldn’t recommend listening to I Like Trains at bedtime – their creepy compositions won’t make for many sweet dreams. Their eerie … Read More »
Foster The People
Some monikers can prove to be exceptionally ill-fitting for a band. Girls, Eagles Of Death Metal and Arctic Monkeys all spring to mind, and you can add We Barbarians to the list, as their support … Read More »
What A Week With John Kerrison #21
Bon Iver gets sexy, Gotye gets rich and MJ makes endorsements from the grave… Read More »
Win: Tickets To Play Fest
See Ash, Spector, Feeder and more at this year’s event… Enter here »
Paul Thomas Saunders
Slumped behind an electric organ, situated stage right and about a yard or two back, Paul Thomas Saunders doesn’t exactly illuminate himself to you as a charismatic frontman as he begins his … Read More »
New Savages Song Surfaces Online
Watch ‘Shut Up’ now… Read More »
Great Escape Tip #2: Milk Music
Why you need to catch Milk Music… Read More »
Grimes
Editor. Singer. Painter.Ballerina. Neuroscientist. Is Claire Boucher, AKA Grimes, the ultimate new age pop polymath? Read More »
Counterflows Festival
There are few more impressive places to kick off the inaugural edition of the Café Oto-helmed Counterflows festival than in an 18th Century church, and there are few people more likely to draw … Read More »
See Grimes In London!
Click here for a chance to see our May cover star perform upstairs at the Garage… Enter here »
The Dandy Warhols
Whilst the passing of time usually goes hand in hand with the fading of memories, The Dandy Warhols‘ catchy, repetitive choruses that infiltrated our brains back in ’97 remain as sharp … Read More »
Frightened Rabbit
Frightened Rabbit shouldn’t really be playing in a venue like this, should they? The Old Bridge Inn’s 100-something-and-a-dog capacity, banjo on the wall and quaint fireplace (thankfully not … Read More »
Major Lazer
Shepherd’s Bush Empire is packed with Major Lazer believers tonight. And once Toddla T warms up the crowd with a great opening set, the fun really begins. Diplo and Jillionaire (who’s … Read More »
