Artist Hookworms
Features & Interviews
Positive space: Hookworms
Despite being dealt their fair share of bad luck in the last two years, turns out a little distance was just what Hookworms needed. “It’s important to remember the positives,” they tell Joe Goggins.
8th February 2018
There’s no place like Suburban Home: producer MJ shows us around his rebuilt studio
After the Christmas floods destroyed MJ’s riverside studio, he rebuilt the entire thing from scratch. Half a year on, he gives us a guided tour.
9th August 2016
Hookworms: “We had a real problem after our first album”
Hookworms hadn’t expected the praise nor the fans that came with their debut, ‘Pearl Mystic’. ‘The Hum’ is a worthy successor, explains frontman MJ.
10th November 2014
Hookworms: “Our new album’s a bit more upbeat, it sounds like us but with the fat trimmed”
The band are already back with the follow up to 2013’s ‘Pearl Mystic’.
9th September 2014
Album Reviews
4 Stars
Hookworms - Microshift
It bristles with life and never sits still.
4 Stars
Hookworms - The Hum
Hookworms sound like a band comfortable with being immediate as well as complex.
News
Hookworms announce split following abuse allegations against frontman Matthew Johnson
The singer, known as MJ, has released a statement denying the allegations made against him.
November 1, 2018 10:41am
News
Hookworms announce ‘Microshift Remixes EP’ and new UK/EU shows
Listen to a Luke Abbott remix of ‘Ullswater’.
October 10, 2018 11:35am
News
Hookworms announce four UK shows
Ought, Factory Floor and Blanck Mass will play with the band across the short run.
April 4, 2018 12:56pm
Reviews / Live
Hookworms whip the Brudenell into a frenzy at Leeds headline gig
They’re a band not concerned with hiding anymore.
March 6, 2018 5:23pm
News
Listen to new albums from Rae Morris, Hookworms and more
Justin Timberlake, Stef Chura and others also have new records out today.
February 2, 2018 9:35am
News
Hookworms share new track ‘Each Time We Pass’, featuring Virginia Wing’s Alice Merida Richards
The track comes ahead new LP ‘Microshift”s release this Friday.
January 31, 2018 12:58pm
News
Hookworms share ‘Static Resistance’
It’s the second track taken from ‘Microshift’, out next month.
January 10, 2018 10:46am
Reviews / Track
Hookworms - Negative Space
The band return with a track you can’t help but dive head first into.
November 2, 2017 2:11pm
News
Hookworms announce new album ‘Microshift’
The record, out on 2nd February, is being previewed by new single ‘Negative Space’.
November 1, 2017 2:22pm
News / Neu
Hookworms’ MJ shares new song as Family Scraps
It joins ‘It Follows’ for a Too Pure Singles Club release.
November 24, 2016 10:46am
News
Los Campesinos! announce Hookworms, Trust Fund and Slow Club for their Us vs. Them Leeds bonanza
The band are ‘curating’ a festival at the Brudenell Social Club next month.
November 1, 2016 10:46am
News
WALL, Hookworms and Local Natives among first acts for Beacons Metro
The series of gigs take place across October and November in Leeds.
June 10, 2016 4:00pm
News
MJ Hookworms shares new Family Scraps song ‘Ourselves’
It’s the third song MJ has put out under the new solo moniker.
March 8, 2016 1:25pm
News / Neu
Hookworms’ MJ shares Family Scraps track, ‘It Follows’
Solo track is set to be taken from a full-length.
February 23, 2016 10:29am
News
Hookworms release ‘Live Vol. III’ album
Digital release was recorded at Salford’s Islington Mill.
October 29, 2015 6:17pm
News
Factory Floor, Hookworms and East India Youth among Beacons Metro additions
Seven new dates at Headrow House, Leeds, have been announced, with Son Lux, Lonelady and Traams also set to appear.
July 3, 2015 12:17pm
News
Hookworms & Factory Floor added to Liverpool Psych Fest
The Heads, Jacco Gardner and Jane Weaver have all been added to the line-up.
April 24, 2015 3:24pm
Features
Field Day 2015 promises to be the most hyped, surprise-filled year in the fest’s history
From outlandish collaborations to the DIY stage, here’s why we’re already counting down to June’s first weekend.
April 22, 2015 3:01pm
News
Savages, Shura, Hookworms & more to play DIY Shacklewell Arms Stage at Field Day 2015
Victoria Park, London fest runs across the 6th-7th June weekend.
April 21, 2015 1:00pm
Reviews / Live
Hookworms mesmerise at London headline gig
It’s on stage that Hookworms’ craftsmanship takes on a whole new life.
March 28, 2015 5:02pm