After a two and half year gap from live performances due to the pandemic, it seemed only right that Florence + The Machine's first London show since blowing up Hyde Park as part of BST 2019 should take place in the rather intimate confines of Dury Lane's Theatre...
The below review was originally written in May 2019, but while we awaited photo approval Maren Morris went on to take her Girl tour back to the US over the summer and through to the end of the year with a mixture of festival appearances and headline shows including...
Who can believe it’s been a massive 25 years – a whole quarter of a century! – since Alanis Morissette broke the perfect-pop mould and released her seminal alt-rock record Jagged Little Pill, imperfections and swearing embraced unabashedly and resonating with the...
Former Nashville TV show star Lennon Stella kicked off the first of two sold out nights at London's Shepherd’s Bush Empire. Formerly one half of a close harmony duo with her sister Maisie, Lennon Stella is launching a fully fledged solo pop career. She is using her...
Thursday night at the Camden Roundhouse marks the culmination of New York Rockers Goo Goo Dolls' UK tour dates endorsing their 2019 LP – Miracle Pill. As 9pm approaches, the lights dim and the crowd still themselves for the band to take their places on stage,...
With five years between each of her three albums, it’s easy to paint Elly Jackson – aka La Roux – with a brush coloured in her massive breakthrough hits. But as Jackson will tell you, as she does at tonight’s show at London club institution Fabric, she absolutely...
Rock legend Dave Grohl celebrated his 51st birthday today and to add to the celebrations his band, Foo Fighters, began their 25th year celebrations by releasing a tantalising instrumental short on their social media accounts, along with the following statement, "Holy...
Perfection from the British-Ugandan soul man. It would take a lot to topple Home Again and Love & Hate, but his third release has done - and some. Beneath melancholic soul, jazz, gospel choirs, dizzying guitars and samples including from civil rights campaigner...
Album anniversary tours are now as common as Liam Gallagher’s name at the top of festival bills. In just the past few weeks, everyone from Alanis Morrisette and Goldfrapp to David Gray and Jill Scott have announced treks honouring their landmark albums. Even a band as...
When The Lumineers hit the big time with 2012’s inescapable Ho Hey, they were lumped in with the other bands riding the folk revival wave of the time. Their contemporaries (say Mumford & Sons and Of Monsters And Men) have since embraced Coldplay-rock,...