Music

By Mani Khawaja (@manikhawaja88) I've never really heard a rock band from Italy, much less a post-hardcore/indie-punk one, so I was pretty intrigued when I heard about LAGS and their debut album, Pilot. My interest was only further piqued, when I found out that the band's drummer was also an internationally renowned athlete who has represented his country on numerous occasions. The album kicks off guns blazing with the high energy track, aptly titled 'A Push and A Rush'. With...

By Declan Roberts (@DeclanMR) Imagine a sunnier, tropical version of Wu Lyf or an up-tempo Copacabana Hard-Fi and Sun Club is what you get. Mixing Splashh melodies with booming vocals Sun Club’s The Dongo Durango promotes a paradoxically rebellious and systematic sing-along. ‘Summer Feet’ opens proceedings in exotic fashion. ’Worm City’ is quite something. Think Jonathan Higgs from Everything Everything teaming up with the surrealistic elements of Bowie’s Kingdom. Hard-hitting, extravagant and vibrantly interesting. ‘Carnival Dough’ rumbles accordingly but duller...

By Kane Power (@ElHeavio) Among the plethora of ‘next big online music hub’ start-ups this year is a company that promises to ‘stand out from the crowd’; Stereotribes. A kind of Kickstarter/Bandcamp crossover, Stereotribes caters for artists or anyone with an even slightly music related project, providing a central site for media and integrated crowd-funding capabilities. I was invited along to the beta website launch on Friday night and I’ve got to be totally honest, my first impression was along...

By Kane Power (@ElHeavio) 23.10.15, The Hope and Anchor, London Ever since there has been a ‘man’ to rebel against, there have been rebels to tell other rebels that they aren’t rebels. Elitism in punk is old hand; overdone and over argued, but that it still exists in 2015 is actually a kind of comfort to me. When being a rebel is mainstream there’s little room for individualism and little cause for angst, so it’s up to groups within the...

Wix have joined forces with Macklemore & Ryan Lewis for the launch of Wix Music 2.0. As part of this collaboration, the Seattle-based duo are creating a series of custom videos for Wix Music users to help mentor emerging artists and provide valuable guidance on how to succeed as an independent artist. Freeing musicians from the expensive and time-consuming task of piecing together the tools they need, Wix Music is a complete, commission-free platform, empowering artists to independently introduce, share, sell...

By Ben Gelblum (@BenGelblum) "Great Scott! If my calculations are correct, it is now precisely October 21, 2015. The future has finally arrived. Yes, it is different than we all thought, but don't worry - it just means your future hasn't been written yet. No one's has. Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one." - Doc, Back To The Future. So maybe flying cars are yet to make it off the ground, and hover...

By Michelle Ryan (@ShellRyan33) It’s been over 20 years since a young Peter Andre melted millions of girls’ hearts as he walked out of the waves with his shiny abs and tropical super-hit ‘Mysterious Girl’. Now with a past peppered with reality TV shows and a tumultuous love life in the public eye, Mr. Andre has landed a prime time spot on Strictly Come Dancing beaming into our living rooms every weekend. So what better time to strike while the...

By Grant Bailey (@GrantDBailey)   Nondescript shoegaze band posts inflammatory hate tweets about superior punks. Gets dropped by label. A win for music. That's the story in a nutshell. Bay Area post-rockers Whirr thought it would be a good idea to hurl some misguided abuse at G.L.O.S.S, a punk band from Washington who have just released a pretty smashing demo of transgender anthems. Twitter was quick to utterly destroy them, just in time for their label, Run For Cover, to give them the...

“When someone pitches a “performance video” in the HECK video think tank, they are generally met with stony faces and rolled eyes. Music videos are a chance to show more creativity visually. Straight up performance generally say fuck all except “this is what we look like playing our song” which, you know, is great and all, but is worth about 10 seconds of your YouTube time before going back to watching compilations of people braining themselves whilst trying to surf...