Canterbury Fayre Hernhill, Canterbury, Kent 22nd – 24th August 2003 A few miles down the road in Reading, Good Charlotte are getting bottled off, System of a Down are inciting a near riot and Damon ...

When news emerged that The Verve’s first two albums, 1993 debut A Storm in Heaven and 1995’s A Northern Soul, were being remastered for release on the 9th of September, it should’ve been top billing ...

Yes, we‘ve kind of shut up shop. But we have some pre-hiatus commitments to honour, and Drowned in Sound is off to Worthy Farm again this year for arguably the world’s biggest festival. Rather than ...

As hardcore-fetishism and macho-posturing permeated the mainstream during the infant years of the 1990s, indie-rock loyalists shifted directions. Responding to the shrill noise of populist rock which ...

Lounge. Twee Pop. Tropicalia. Easy Listening. Jazz. Funk. Giallo. City Pop. Indie Pop. Baggy-Madchester. Ye-ye. 60’s Soul. Video Game Music. Downtempo. House. Nu ...

Like so many aspects of popular culture, radio has been labelled as ‘dead’ by many commentators, usually old hacks struggling with the changing dynamics between audience and media, trying to denounce ...

With a rare public appearance of the elusive, ethereal singer of the Cocteau Twins, Elizabeth Fraser, interviewed by the artful singer-songwriter John Grant, this event brings together two very ...

Lyrically, Guy Garvey is a man who deals pretty explicitly in the currency of romance, so it's a good job he seems so capable of finding it everywhere he turns: over the years, he's mined beauty from ...

Anyone who’s practiced their craft for at least a decade tends to know what they’re doing. Such is the case with bassist extraordinaire Julia Ruzicka - between her previous stint in Million Dead and ...

In London for an almost literal ‘flying visit’, a two-day press junket to promote the upcoming release of new album Stranger to Stranger (his first since 2011’s So Beautiful or So What), it takes a ...

Dream Theater aren’t scared of taking risks. But it’s a given; the genre the US quintet effectively coined, progressive metal, expects the out of the ordinary. The Grammy-nominated band, who formed in ...

Ed Ledsham explores the history of auto-tune... (Listen to Auto-tune Anthems on Spotify). "Auto-Tune is great for fixing vocals, but we use Auto-Tune in a way it wasn't designed to work. A lot of ...