Cloudspeakers

The first couple of things I knew about California's dios were that Travis Keller from Buddyhead is a big fan and also that the now-dead Ronnie Dio tried to push some kind of silly lawsuit at them ... Read more

We Have Band may be a manifestly ridiculous name to operate under, but the buzz around the London electro-pop trio since their formation has been substantial, with the former EMI employees managing... Read more

There's a great deal of high-quality music currently emanating from the Northern part of Jutland and surrounding islands, commonly known as Denmark. It may very well have always been that way, but ... Read more

It appears that Portland's A Weather have made an effort to move away from the trappings of the tactics used in their 2008 debut, Cove. It may be to pushing it to say it's been a genuinely concerte... Read more

When Laura Marling appeared on the folk scene in 2008, aged 17, there was almost as much anticipation of her promise as praise for the music she produced. This was no bad thing, allowing developmen... Read more

Originally self-released in 2007, Fauna's epic musical progress chart of primitive man's search for food The Hunt was always unlikely to find a significant number of ears to penetrate. Now with an ... Read more

Journalists, critics, hacks - whatever you want to call the people who make a living (or not) from writing about music - often get criticised for seemingly 'not having listened to the record', or a... Read more

London folkist Johnny Flynn is a slightly strange one. Having put out one of the most well received and well-rounded debuts of last year, occupying the same company, quite literally, as femme-folk'... Read more

As an artist with a fair-sized, if not substantial, back catalogue behind him already, Faroese singer-songwriter Teitur Lassen remains somewhat of an enigma to listeners on these shores, despite 20... Read more

Birmingham noise-pop trio Johnny Foreigner don’t do compromise. ‘Make it loud, make it quick’ is about their philosophy. Some may look to their contemporaries for reference, but t... Read more