Michael Kiwanuka stands on the precipice in 2012. The two EPs with which he introduced himself last year, Tell Me A Tale and I’m Getting Ready earned an avalanche of praise, including plenty here, and deservedly so, for few songs…
Album | Dear Reader – Idealistic Animals
Hands up, who amongst us can name a South African band making waves in the indie scene? You? Me? No, didn’t think so. It might feel awfully lonely standing in a crowd of one, where the association of yourself with…
Live | Ani DiFranco @ Brighton Concorde 2
Ani DiFranco has been through enough re-inventions and reincarnations over the last two decades to give David Bowie a run for his money.From her debut as a wide-eyed, shaven-headed 20-year-old, through the tortured, angsty mid-90s and into a more mellow…
News | Emmy the Great announces live dates
Fresh from a Christmas that we like to think looked exactly like this, Emmy the Great has announced a string of live appearances. Emmy will play 4 dates in mainland Europe this month, and a one-off London show in…
Listen | Stream new Shins track ‘Simple Song’
Wanna hear the new Shins song that folks have been raving about? The new track ‘Simple Song’ sees the band back on form for their forthcoming album Port of Morrow after frontman James Mercer’s time out to work on his…
Album | Laura Gibson – La Grande
To say Laura Gibson could’ve stepped out of a sepia photograph circa 1880 is also to give to a fair indication of how her music sounds. There’s something curiously anachronistic about her musical sensibilities, a quality that permeates her third…