Doing this job throws up some surprises. A couple of months ago we featured an album by Gurli Octavia which is one of the best debut...

Remember the days of cinema double features, when your local movie theatre used to show two consecutive films on a Saturday afternoon or...

We have a really interesting series of diverse artists over the next week, but this one I think is for the real ‘indie’ lovers – and by...

Maybe I was a bit harsh on Swedish band Corduroy yesterday when I suggested their name was a little dull. But certainly Dinosaurtegning...

Shoegaze and Dream Pop aren’t always my thing but who would not be attracted to a band in which the founder is influenced by as diverse a...

When I reviewed ‘Forget That I Love You’, the first track released from their debut album, ‘Soon’ last October, I suggested the album...

In the UK, national broadcaster the BBC, with no new programmes to show, is re-running its classic 1970s sit-com Fawlty Towers. In the...

For a moment I thought this might be the theme tune to the American sitcom I never saw until I remembered that was called Parks and...

I’ll get the negative out the way early here, because Corduroy is, in my opinion, a rather dull name for an indie band. I’m not offering...

I know we have readers across the world and that different pandemic lockdowns apply according to where you live, but over in the UK the...

Happy returns for St Vincent, who has been unusually quiet since her sixth studio album, 2017’s ‘Masseduction’, apart from writing and...

Four years ago I had the pleasure of going to a Joana Serrat show in Levenshulme, an upcoming but still down at heel and slightly edgy...

It’s been a while since I wrote about Swedish band Phogg, but I still listen to their 2019 album 'Mofeto Mashine Adamkosh' fairly...

Every time I see the words ‘post’ and ‘isolation’ in the same sentence I’m hungry to learn more. I’m sure I’m not the only one. In this...

One of the live gigs I was looking forward to seeing last year before ‘the bug’ hit, was the return of Danish band Caper Clowns to...

Using the term ‘Norwegian Newcomer’ seems a little odd for someone who’s actually been on the scene for a few years and won the NRK P3...

A couple of weeks ago we highlighted The Northern Belle, on whose song Louien guested. Now it is her turn, and this is the lead single...

With new releases thin on the ground this week (but they are coming) I’m doing some catching up and who better to do it with than the...

The list of artists we’ve never quite got to writing about is seemingly endless. Where Did Nora Go is a songwriter who made a huge...

Last time we wrote about Loney Dear he’d just released his single 'Trifles', which somewhat intriguingly referred to bodies being dumped...