Wunderhorse Are Thoroughbreds At The Joiners

Wunderhorse Are Thoroughbreds At The Joiners

At the tail end of last year, a friend of mine saw Fontaines DC at The Apollo, Hammersmith. I asked them for their highlight from the night. The answer? “To have got there early enough to see the support”. The support were Wunderhorse, the new solo project of Dead...

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Self Esteem Brings Pop Mastery To Hammersmith

Self Esteem Brings Pop Mastery To Hammersmith

“Do I look alright?” Rebecca Lucy Taylor – AKA Self Esteem – asks ironically, red lipstick smeared widely over face before scolding an audience member for raising their phone torch during a quiet spot in tonight’s set: “Don’t do that, it’s not a Coldplay show!”. She...

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Cat Clyde Brings Down Rounder To Koko

Cat Clyde Brings Down Rounder To Koko

Stratford, Ontario-based indie-folkster Cat Clyde has been on the rise since releasing debut L.P. Ivory Castanets in 2017. 2019’s Hunters Trance followed, elevating the rawness of Clyde’s songwriting and taking us deeper on her journey ahead of the release of this...

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Lissie Carves Canyons At Koko

Lissie Carves Canyons At Koko

Midwestern – via a Los Angelean detour – folk artist (if I have to pick a genre) Elisabeth Maurus – aka Lissie – has been on the circuit for a while. Enough to have put out five studio albums since 2010, the latest of which – Carving Canyons – her current tour is in...

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PVRIS Set Hammersmith On Fire

PVRIS Set Hammersmith On Fire

When Lowell, Massachusetts-based PVRIS (pronounced Paris) formed, they were a male-fronted five-piece metalcore outfit called Operation Guillotine. That quickly shifted to the enduring trio of frontwoman Lynn Gunn, bass + keys man Brian MacDonald and guitarist Alex...

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Charlotte Sands Swings Big At Hammersmith

Charlotte Sands Swings Big At Hammersmith

It's a tough gig, supporting any act on their headline tour. Most in attendance are largely there to see the artist topping the bill on a night. It’s harder still when you’re one of two support acts and you’re on stage 30 minutes after doors open, the venue slowly...

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Lera Lynn Lends A Touch Of Elegance To Omeara

Lera Lynn Lends A Touch Of Elegance To Omeara

While Lera Lynn began as many artists do by grafting, honing their craft and playing shows, her career was propelled into the mainstream when she both contributed music as well as played a small on-screen role in the second season of the hugely popular noir drama True...

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JP Saxe @ Shepherd's Bush Empire (Kalpesh Patel)

JP Saxe Announces Two Part Album With Part One, Articulate Express, Dropping Next Month

multi-platinum master storyteller JP Saxe has announced a forthcoming two-part album, with part one, Articulate Excuses, due out on 18th April on Arista Records. The announcement comes alongside the release of the relatable meditation on our modern condition and viscerally vulnerable statement, SMARTPHONE MAKE ME DUMB and its accompanying lyric video.

Courting (Charlie Barclay Harris)

Courting – Lust For Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story’ Album Review

Liverpool’s Courting deliver their third album in two and a half years and confirm they are one of the most exciting and innovative bands around right now.

Avalanche Party @ The Edge of The Wedge, Portsmouth (Rebecca Cairns)

Avalanche Party Bring Their ‘Dream…’ Post-Punk Show To Portsmouth

At Portsmouth’s Edge Of The Wedge, Yorkshire garage post-punks Avalanche Party look and sound as though they have a broader vision than the small venue will allow, and tonight put on a performance as though there were thousands who couldn’t be there.

Mother Mother @ Troxy (Kalpesh Patel)

Mother Mother Announce New Album ‘Nostalgia’ And Announce Brixton Headline Show

Celebrating their 20th anniversary as a band, globally-celebrated alt-rock phenomenon Mother Mother have shared their brand new single Make Believe via Parlophone/Warner Records. The track heralds the arrival of their upcoming tenth studio album, Nostalgia, out on 6th June.

Himalayas (Andy Ford)

HIMALAYAS Drop Latest Single ‘Surrender’

HIMALAYAS have released their new single Surrender, the latest song to be taken from their forthcoming album BAD STAR out April 25th via Nettwerk Music Group. Surrender is a foreboding cavernous rock track which examines uncritical loyalty to individuals and organisations, and the willingness to blindly accept anything they say. It also speaks to the inability to see why others may think differently, leading to further division instead of cooperation to achieve a common goal.

Brandon Boyd of Incubus @ Brixton Academy (Kalpesh Patel)

Incubus Announce Special Guest Paris Jackson For 2025 London Headline Show

Following their highly successful sold-out 2024 US Arena tour, US rockers Incubus will perform their iconic Morning View album in its entirety plus the hits at London’s The O2 on Saturday 26 April 2025, their only UK and Ireland show.

Jet Fuel Rock’N’Roll With The Hillbilly Moon Explosion And The Zipheads In London

Tucked away under Oxford Street, the 100 Club feels like a terribly kept secret, the venue you’d miss if you strode...
Zakk Sabbath @ O2 Shepherd's Bush Empire (Catherine Beltramini)

Zakk Sabbath Deliver A Tribute To The Prince Of Darkness At O2 Shepherd’s Bush Empire

If you’ve ever wondered what it would be like to witness Black Sabbath’s iconic riffs brought to life with a new level...

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