Music

The standard cliché for any musical artist is that the second album is always underwhelming and seldom satisfies the lofty expectations set by the first. Bucking this pitfall, Hookworms – a five-piece psychedelic/noise-rock band from [read more]

As Arslan Novrasli fans line up outside Central Hall before his concert on 27th November, a woman in the queue surveys the crowd and remarks that it’s “very cosmopolitan”. The audience is indeed diverse: men wearing jeans stand among [read more]

The music of Morcheeba, the 90s-era trip-hop trio, is not for everyone. But perhaps that is the point. Onto their eighth studio album (the second offering since their 2003 trial separation), the British group draw an age-varied crowd, [read more]

The Tooting Tram & Social is a classic Victorian-era tram shed that has been dragged from obsolescence – as these things routinely are – and given a second life through its conversion into a lively and attractive South [read more]

While you may not be able to name one of Fink’s tracks, we guarantee you’ll almost certainly have heard their music. The British band, fronted by Finn Greenhall, are essentially the musical champions of US television, having [read more]

Fresh off the back of their debut EP Give Me Something, acoustic duo Seafret sell out their first London headline show at The Islington. After recently breaking onto the Radio One BBC Introducing playlist, the little-known Bridlington [read more]

Norwegian multi-instrumentalist Bernhoft brings an impressive collection of loop boards and effects pedals to the stage at Shepherd’s Bush Empire, skilfully displaying his talent with the sequencing equipment (as well as with the [read more]

Little Dragon frontwoman Yukimi Nagano glows from top to bottom, but she might as well be in silhouette, with only her form picked out in neon under blacklight. Behind Nagano, her three almost-familial bandmates, Erik Bodin, Fredrik Wallin [read more]

At the dawn of the music calendar, psychedelic rock awakened from its antecedent glories in the transcendence of British band Temples. Their debut album Sun Structures was a commercial triumph that bought psychedelic vibes to the [read more]

Nickelback are the band that you just love to hate. It’s irrelevant whether that loathing is a result of Chad Kroeger’s irritatingly gruff voice, or the fact that he’s potentially the worst frontman to ever grace the rock [read more]