Record Sales Day is becoming a cult phenomenon with people of all ages celebrating the vinyl industry. It is celebrated the world over on the 20th April, to promote vinyl sales and independent record stores in a digital download age. Sister Ray records on Berwick Street, Soho held a mini-festival street party with live bands [...]

May 6th, 2013 Read more

Hailing from Western Australia, indie-pop band San Cisco came to Bristol for the very first time to play a support slot for Darwin Deez, and I was lucky enough to get half an hour of their time just before they went on stage. San Cisco are made up of cheeky-chappy frontman Jordi Davieson, smiley drummer [...]

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Western Australia’s indie-poppers San Cisco opened up for Darwin Deez on what turned out to be an incredibly fun night. San Cisco’s debut album is not out in the UK until October this year, but the band included a great deal of new material set to feature on the record, alongside the singles that have [...]

May 5th, 2013 Read more

La Femme, a bunch of trendy odd-balls hailing from Biarritz in the south of France, finally bring us their full length debut album after a number of promising EPs. Their sound could best be described as darkly jangling surf pop, but various other elements such as their swirling, hypnotic numbers and spooky keys and synths make this band [...]

May 3rd, 2013 Read more

Now on their ninth album, Vanishing Point sees grunge survivors Mudhoney still chipping away at the coalface of back-to-basics slacker rock and, seeing that it’s now fashionable to dress like a teenager from mid-nineties Seattle, their cultural relevancy seems to be asserted once again. However, while the album serves its purpose in delivering a dose [...]

May 3rd, 2013 Read more

Jon Bauckham spoke to the headliners of this year’s Bristol Summer Ball way back in 2010 about their hopes and dreams for the future. “Imagine an episode of Friends called ‘The One Where Joey Gets His Fucking Head Blown Off By A Drone Aircraft’,” explains Everything Everything frontman Jonathan Higgs, attempting to describe the thought [...]

May 1st, 2013 Read more

Indie-folk due Fossil Collective play The Louisiana on 20 April, one of the first shows of an extensive UK tour in support of their debut album Tell Where I Lie. Multi-instrumentalists Dave Fendick and Jonny Hooker formed the band in 2009 and have come a long way since recording early demos in a friend’s crypt-based [...]

April 20th, 2013 Read more

Arc is the latest addition to Bristol’s increasingly crowded festival calendar. Its angle is to push a forward-thinking programme of the cutting-edge in electronic music and digital art projects, building on the success of RFID’s integrated installations of live music and 3D projections at festivals around the globe, and putting on a stellar line up including [...]

April 17th, 2013 Read more

Walk the Moon are pure, indulgent fun. Songs like ‘Anna Sun’ and ‘Shiver Shiver’ typify the carefree spirit which encapsulates their self-titled album released back in June 2012. Their universal appeals stems from the seemingly unique ability to write pop infused love songs without whining about long gone ex-girlfriends or The One Who Got Away. [...]

April 17th, 2013 Read more

Swedish two piece The Knife consists of siblings Olof Dreijer and Karin Dreijer Andersson, the latter of whom is the last to release any music in an outstanding self-titled debut under her solo moniker Fever Ray four years ago. The duo have built up an immensely devoted and loyal fanbase since 2006’s dystopian electropop landmark [...]

April 17th, 2013 Read more