Rebecca Schiller

Graham Coxon

Fast-forward four months to Blur’s Olympics gig in Hyde Park. Imagine the hordes of Stella’d-up lads “woo-hoo”-ing, the burger vans cooking up cheap meat...

Kasabian/The Vaccines/Wild Belle

California knows how to party,” the great hologram Tupac Shakur once said. And so even though Coachella’s festival site is 150 miles from LA,...

Coachella Valley Music and Arts Festival

FRIDAY Coachella is supposed to be all sunshine, hippie chicks and palm trees swaying in the breeze. A world away from UK festivals, right? Well,...

Flats – ‘Better Living’

For all the vomitus aggression filling Flats’ bleak debut, what really disturbs is its harrowing, somewhat tragic air of hopelessness that’s not so much...

Gravenhurst – ‘The Ghost In Daylight’

Nick Talbot, aka Gravenhurst, is not a guy for parties. Buzzkill subjects abound on his fourth record: the emptiness of the past; photos of...

Actress – ‘RIP’

The democratisation of the music-making process has been a curse as well as a blessing. Dance music today can sometimes resemble a field of...

Kwes – ‘Meantime EP’

From SBTRKT to Jai Paul, the UK boasts a remarkable array of producers making twisted robotic soul which combines a love of US R&B...

Stay+ – ‘Arem EP’

It’s easy to hate Stay+. Originally operating under the name Christian Aids, carping bollocks about their shows having a “manipulative element” based on phone...

Mothlite – ‘Dark Age’

Daniel O’Sullivan’s second album as Mothlite is a constant battle with melancholia, played out in high definition and high drama. Listening to ‘Dark Age’...

BoB – ‘Strange Clouds’

The three-day, nine-email saga NME went through to hear an official sampler of BoB’s second album and follow-up to ‘The Adventures Of Bobby Ray’...
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