Islington Assembly Hall hasn’t been this packed since the last local elections, or perhaps a wedding between two people with very large families. It’s an odd choice of venue for modern vampires ...

Sometimes you just need a break, a rock to clamber onto in the middle of a raging river, and that’s exactly what The Flatliners have provided in the form of ‘Cold World’. By their standards, the ...

Title track and lead single ‘WIRED’ presents all the elements of the album’s writing and production that make it work. A jungle-esque beat drives the verses, steely, overdriven bass and cleaner ...

Hidden within the increasingly gentrified confines of Digbeth, Birmingham, Supersonic Festival has been a sanctuary for ...

Touché Amoré – ‘Flowers and You’ Piper: Touché Amoré showed me how vulnerability and intensity can coexist without compromising either. The emotional honesty in their writing and how direct and ...

In many ways this could apply to Knife Bride and their new EP ‘Sorry About The Plague’. Speaking of things sweeping across Europe, destroying everything in their path, Knife Bride have just returned ...

Imagine an artist. A painter. Their work, their art, isn’t just about ideas. It’s about expression, the form, the way they paint the picture. Maybe they choose water colours, they might choose to work ...

Trying to pigeonhole Portrayal Of Guilt’s sound has always been a fruitless task. The Austin threepiece have been releasing their own brand of twisted darkness for nearly a decade now, effortlessly ...

Toby Warren (drums, vocals): On our single ‘High Achievers’, one thing that was really important to me was that there was a point where the drum beat at the end was on its own, providing a bed for the ...

A new Skindred record is always a cause for celebration, and doubly so when it’s as crammed with as much self-belief as ‘You Got This’. While their sound has mellowed of late, like on 2023’s ‘Smile’, ...