Cloudspeakers

When New Young Pony Club first released ‘Ice Cream’ on Tirk Records in 2005, it felt like they were destined to become Favourite New Band to a lot of people. The 1,000 copies of the seven-inch ... Read more

One million and one bands try to do this. And of these around one million (now that Grandaddy are no more and Joy Zipper are AWOL) get it horribly wrong. But Canadian husband-wife duo Olga Goreas a... Read more

The brightly coloured packaging of Jaga Jazzist's fifth album will be immediately recognizable to anyone who has enjoyed (what my mother would term) a misspent youth. Along with a preternatural abi... Read more

There isn’t just one reason why Manchester has been the UK’s premier city for producing killer pop and rock music for the last 35 years. Its strong sense of civic pride, ever-thriving club scen... Read more

There’s something satisfying about XL, which has been home to UK hip-hop acts Dizzee Rascal and MIA, signing Gil Scott-Heron, one of the genre’s biggest stylistic influences. It still remains t... Read more

Naming your band after a monumental psychedelic masterpiece by German space rockers II AND ‘Penny Lane’ by The Beatles could be seen as a little bit gauche. Luckily for us Yeti Lane live up to... Read more

The road to hell is lined with the burnt-out husks of groups who tried to fuse rock and dance. This alchemist’s quest has thrown up some atrocities over the last 20-odd years – older readers wi... Read more

Has there been a better named album? The seemingly absurdist statement Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space actually gets directly to the core of Spiritualized and to what is arguably the ... Read more

Because Tom Waits has always been a larger-than-life, older-than-the-hills character occupying a much younger man’s body, even now he actually sounds much older than he actually is. He turns ... Read more

Gyratory System are a strange, minimalist/maximalist instrumental dance quartet who have one foot placed firmly in the theory heavy, avant-garde camp and the other planted squarely on an underlit d... Read more