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Pop and rock
‘We didn’t have a washing machine, so I was in the launderette when our manager rang and said: “You’ve gone in at No 2”’We were still a three-piece: Adam Devlin,…
June 1, 2026
· 1 min read
Yard Act
The Leeds group arrived in a frenzy of post-punk energy, picking at the scabs of society – then started questioning their instant success. They talk about dodging ‘the megaband treadmill’…
June 1, 2026
· 2 min read
Radiohead
The Radiohead guitarist once serenaded a girl with the Smiths and thinks George Michael was a genius. But what is his favourite football song?The first single I bought Ally’s Tartan…
May 31, 2026
· 1 min read
Music
(Mexican Summer)The quintet add shoegaze, country and 50s rock’n’roll to their core indie-punk sound, resulting in songs that offset lyrical bleakness with gleeful, uplifting musicIceage have always seemed like a…
May 28, 2026
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Music
The British band’s breezy, collagist sound has charmed underground music fans – though it belies the family and financial strife that went into their beautiful second LPDuring a session for…
May 27, 2026
· 2 min read
Pop and rock
O2 Kentish Town Forum, LondonAfter three unlikely Top 10 albums in the 90s, the trio are back – and on the basis of this rapid-fire set, you hope they’ll stick…
May 25, 2026
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Kurt Vile
(Verve)Sounding characteristically virtuosic but unbothered, Vile is more forward-thinking than ever on a record that surveys the bliss and bumps of life in his mid-40sThese days, Kurt Vile songs begin…
May 21, 2026
· 2 min read
Music
Barrowland Ballroom, Glasgow The Welsh band with a weird edge mostly let their formidable music speak for itself, lent a transcendent power by frontman Gruff Rhys’s rich voiceIn the gloom…
May 10, 2026
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Aldous Harding
(4AD)Lyrics about naked owls and eating rocks might be irksome to some – but there’s no denying that the alt-rocker’s fifth album is beguiling, tightly written and richly melodicAldous Harding…
May 7, 2026
· 2 min read
Indie
Galvanised by the Arctic Monkeys and guided by wise heads such as Richard Hawley and the Reverend, disused steel mills and former pit villages are now shaking to the hum…
February 2, 2018
· 2 min read