In 2007 when Kevin Shields announced that My Bloody Valentine were reforming for a series of gigs tickets were pounced on by a generation of indie fans…
Author: Chris Todd
This seven track EP contains the kind of sun hazed electronic pop that it turns your thoughts back to the start of the British Summer where yet…
Roots has been around long enough now to have his name pre-fixed with the words 'the legendary'. Now on his fifth album, the forthcoming '4everevolution', he serves…
Since Oasis killed the actual concept of indie back in the 90's, it's become a by-word for styles of hair and tight jeans, even musically inept desperate…
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Currently receiving appreciative chin strokes on the underground music scene, Sugar’s third single from his recently released debut is a cute indie pop track with a banging…
The electronic music scene is waiting for its new Daft Punk with bated breath. With Justice gearing up to follow up their instant classic debut album ‘Cross’,…
The French sling out quality house music without even breaking into a sweat be it commercial giants such as Daft Punk, Alan Braxe, Fred Falke or Justice…
Hot Chip’s gradual shift from exciting electro-pop to so so indie-ish pop has coincided with Joe Goddard’s involvement in The Two Bears, he being one of them…
Sun, sea, sand…these are some of the things we don’t have in the UK, the few places you can get all of these are usually appropriated by…
The band 22 are and experimental four-piece from Norway, their self produced EP which is titled ‘Plastik’ was released through Best Before Records on July 4th. This…
The Horrors ‘Skying’ XL 9/10 (more…)
It was a well established fact that one of our writers had to review, feature as well as interview anything Teenage |Fanclub. So Chris Todd would have…
Why...? Why Creation? Why is it that I don't give a damn about the occasional scratch or bruise about my person but if anyone even puts the…
Hindsight is a wonderful thing. Since writing part one of this article way back in 1995 I’ve stopped saying things as preposterous as Creation, a consistent record…
O Children The Chapman Family John & Jehn XOYO, London 23/03/11 Guitar music is currently going through one of those lulls it tends to go through before…
Following the announcement of the May 9th release of Gang Gang Dance's first album for 4AD, Eye Contact, more details of the record have been made available,…
Belgian nu-disco duo Vito De Luca and Stephen Fasano AKA Aeroplane landed in 2007 with what seemed like an endless stream of funky remixes for artists as…
With Guitars takes you back to 1996, Skunk Anansie and the album ‘Stoosh’. Our man back then, Chris Todd thought it time for a more challenging interview,…
Following mass critical acclaim for her debut album, Bird-Brains, 4AD release the monumental lo-fi R&B jewel from Tune-Yards, ‘Real Live Flesh’, backed with a new track entitled…
‘The greatest album of all time’ – NME ‘It is perfect’ – Noel Gallagher On 10th August, 2009, exactly twenty years to the day from the moment…
‘Dig Out Your Soul’, the forthcoming and eagerly anticipated seventh studio album from one of the world’s biggest and most enduring bands sees a worldwide release through…
Foolishly fucked into the trip hop fold. Sneaker Pimps are much more. Compared to Agent Provocateur but where their turgid dirge stinks, the Pimps shit shines. They…