Ben Tipple
Marmozets - CO.WAR.DICE (20th May 2026, Reviews)
Basement - WIRED (8th May 2026, Reviews)
MUNA - Dancing On The Wall (8th May 2026, Reviews)
Holly Humberstone - Cruel World (9th April 2026, Reviews)
RAYE – THIS MUSIC MAY CONTAIN HOPE. (23rd March 2026, Reviews)
Robyn - Sexistential (23rd March 2026, Reviews)
James Blake - Trying Times (11th March 2026, Reviews)
The Sophs - GOLDSTAR (11th March 2026, Reviews)
Olivia Dean delivers spellbinding intimate showcase at Manchester’s Albert Hall (27th February 2026, Reviews)
Mitski - Nothing’s About To Happen To Me (26th February 2026, Reviews)
Danny L Harle - Cerulean (11th February 2026, Reviews)
Joyce Manor - I Used To Go To This Bar (28th January 2026, Reviews)
DIY’s 2025 Tracks of the Year (17th December 2025, Features)
DIY’s 2025 Albums of the Year (16th December 2025, Features)
Sorry - COSPLAY (5th November 2025, Reviews)
Del Water Gap - Chasing The Chimera (5th November 2025, Reviews)
Militarie Gun - God Save The Gun (17th October 2025, Reviews)
Ashnikko - Smoochies (15th October 2025, Reviews)
Ethel Cain exudes gothic greatness at Manchester Apollo headline show (6th October 2025, Reviews)
Taylor Swift - The Life Of A Showgirl (6th October 2025, Reviews)
Sprints - All That Is Over (24th September 2025, Reviews)
Lola Young - I’m Only F**king Myself (19th September 2025, Reviews)
Blood Orange - Essex Honey (27th August 2025, Reviews)
Deftones - Private Music (20th August 2025, Reviews)
Ethel Cain - Willoughby Tucker, I’ll Always Love You (6th August 2025, Reviews)
Debby Friday - The Starrr Of The Queen Of Life (30th July 2025, Reviews)
Alexisonfire, Kneecap & Frank Turner make for another stand-out 2000trees (26th July 2025, Reviews)
Jessica Winter - My First Album (9th July 2025, Reviews)
Get excited about… 2000trees Festival: A quick guide to the UK’s worst-kept festival secret (8th July 2025, Features)
HAIM - I quit (18th June 2025, Reviews)
Slam Dunk 2025 epitomises both legacy and innovation as it blends the new with the old (2nd June 2025, Reviews)
Cliffords - Salt Of The Lee (30th May 2025, Neu)
Blondshell - If You Asked For A Picture (2nd May 2025, Reviews)
Car Seat Headrest - The Scholars (2nd May 2025, Reviews)
Bon Iver - SABLE, fABLE (10th April 2025, Reviews)
Lucy Dacus - Forever Is A Feeling (28th March 2025, Reviews)
Perfume Genius - Glory (26th March 2025, Reviews)
Julien Baker & TORRES: Dazzle Camouflage (24th March 2025, Features)
Lady Gaga - MAYHEM (10th March 2025, Reviews)
Antony Szmierek - Service Station at the End of the Universe (26th February 2025, Reviews)
Biig Piig - 11:11 (5th February 2025, Reviews)
FKA twigs - EUSEXUA (24th January 2025, Reviews)
Ethel Cain - Perverts (8th January 2025, Reviews)
DIY’s Tracks of the Year 2024 (16th December 2024, Features)
DIY’s Albums of the Year 2024 (13th December 2024, Features)
High Vis - Guided Tour (9th October 2024, Reviews)
Touché Amoré - Spiral in a Straight Line (9th October 2024, Reviews)
Pale Waves - Smitten (25th September 2024, Reviews)
Fat Dog - WOOF. (4th September 2024, Reviews)
Mitski serenades dedicated crowds for theatrical headline turn at All Points East 2024 (23rd August 2024, Reviews)
Charly Bliss - Forever (14th August 2024, Reviews)
Have Heart, Basement, Thursday and more make for a triumphant celebration of alternative music at Outbreak 2024 (18th July 2024, Reviews)
Charli XCX - BRAT (4th June 2024, Reviews)
You Me At Six’s final festival set is a true full circle moment at 2024’s Slam Dunk North (1st June 2024, Reviews)
Phoebe Green – Ask Me Now (22nd May 2024, Reviews)
Nell Mescal - Can I Miss It For A Minute? (3rd May 2024, Reviews)
Taylor Swift - The Tortured Poets Department: The Anthology (25th April 2024, Reviews)
Porij - Teething (24th April 2024, Reviews)
Pillow Queens - Name Your Sorrow (17th April 2024, Reviews)
Kacey Musgraves - Deeper Well (27th March 2024, Reviews)
Gossip bring a beautiful chaos to first UK show in four years (12th March 2024, Reviews)
Bleachers - Bleachers (6th March 2024, Reviews)
Mannequin Pussy - I Got Heaven (1st March 2024, Reviews)
Laura Jane Grace - Hole In My Head (14th February 2024, Reviews)
IDLES - TANGK (14th February 2024, Reviews)
Marika Hackman - Big Sigh (10th January 2024, Reviews)
Sprints - Letter To Self (3rd January 2024, Reviews)
DIY’s Albums of the Year 2023 (7th December 2023, Features)
Jelani Blackman - The Heart Of It (8th November 2023, Reviews)
Baby Queen - Quarter Life Crisis (8th November 2023, Reviews)
Creeper - Sanguivore (11th October 2023, Reviews)
Holly Humberstone - Paint My Bedroom Black (11th October 2023, Reviews)
Sufjan Stevens - Javelin (4th October 2023, Reviews)
James Blake - Playing Robots Into Heaven (6th September 2023, Reviews)
Romy - Mid Air (6th September 2023, Reviews)
Turnstile become leaders of the pack at the hardcore underdogs’ Manchester show (31st August 2023, Reviews)
A hedonistic whirlwind of empathetic tears and unrivalled joy engulfs boygenius’ giant Gunnersbury Park show (22nd August 2023, Reviews)
Shamir - Homo Anxietatem (16th August 2023, Reviews)
The Xcerts - Learning How To Live And Let Go (16th August 2023, Reviews)
PVRIS: Don’t Call It A Comeback (14th July 2023, Features)
Living In Widescreen: Hayley Kiyoko (7th June 2023, Features)
Jenny Lewis - Joy’All (7th June 2023, Reviews)
King Krule - Space Heavy (7th June 2023, Reviews)
Past, present, and future collide across a campus of guitars, eyeliner, patches, and an unadulterated love of music at Slam Dunk 2023. (31st May 2023, Reviews)
Arlo Parks - My Soft Machine (24th May 2023, Reviews)
Ryan Beatty - Calico (28th April 2023, Reviews)
boygenius - the record (31st March 2023, Reviews)
Softcult - See You In The Dark (24th March 2023, Reviews)
Biig Piig, Gorilla, Manchester (23rd March 2023, Reviews)
Fall Out Boy, Band On The Wall, Manchester (17th March 2023, Reviews)
On The Record: “Ethel Cain has created a world that sits as the holy grail for misfits.” (8th March 2023, Features)
Caroline Polachek - Desire, I Want To Turn Into You (14th February 2023, Reviews)
RAYE - My 21st Century Blues (3rd February 2023, Reviews)
Biig Piig - Bubblegum (20th January 2023, Reviews)
Fred again.. - ‘Actual Life 3 (January 1 - September 9 2022)’ (11th November 2022, Reviews)
Taylor Swift – Midnights (21st October 2022, Reviews)
Skullcrusher - Quiet The Room (14th October 2022, Reviews)
Sorry - Anywhere But Here (7th October 2022, Reviews)
Death Cab For Cutie - Asphalt Meadows (16th September 2022, Reviews)
Oliver Sim - Hideous Bastard (9th September 2022, Reviews)
Lauran Hibberd - Garageband Superstar (19th August 2022, Reviews)
Phoebe Green - Lucky Me (19th August 2022, Reviews)
Beabadoobee - Beatopia (15th July 2022, Reviews)
MUNA - MUNA (24th June 2022, Reviews)
Sky Ferreira, Southbank Centre, London (17th June 2022, Reviews)
Perfume Genius - Ugly Season (17th June 2022, Reviews)
No Holds Barred: Nova Twins (14th June 2022, Features)
Charlie Hickey - Nervous At Night (20th May 2022, Reviews)
Ethel Cain - Preacher’s Daughter (13th May 2022, Reviews)
The Linda Lindas - Growing Up (8th April 2022, Reviews)
Pillow Queens - Leave The Light On (1st April 2022, Reviews)
Jenny Hval - Classic Objects (11th March 2022, Reviews)
Nilüfer Yanya - PAINLESS (4th March 2022, Reviews)
Shamir - Heterosexuality (11th February 2022, Reviews)
Mitski - Laurel Hell (4th February 2022, Reviews)
MØ - Motordrome (28th January 2022, Reviews)
Twin Atlantic - Transparency (7th January 2022, Reviews)
Tigers Jaw: On Letting Go (3rd December 2021, Features)
No Rome - It’s All Smiles (3rd December 2021, Reviews)
Snail Mail - Valentine (3rd November 2021, Reviews)
Holly Humberstone - The Walls Are Way Too Thin (3rd November 2021, Reviews)
Lana Del Rey - Blue Banisters (22nd October 2021, Reviews)
Biffy Clyro - The Myth Of The Happily Ever After (20th October 2021, Reviews)
James Blake - Friends That Break Your Heart (6th October 2021, Reviews)
Hovvdy - True Love (29th September 2021, Reviews)
Kacey Musgraves – star-crossed (8th September 2021, Reviews)
Chvrches - Screen Violence (26th August 2021, Reviews)
Meet Me @ The Altar - Model Citizen (12th August 2021, Reviews)
Foxing – Draw Down The Moon (5th August 2021, Reviews)
Creeper - American Noir (28th July 2021, Reviews)
The new guard rule at Latitude 2021 (27th July 2021, Reviews)
Slam Dunk cements punk’s community spirit (9th July 2021, Reviews)
Half Waif - Mythopoetics (8th July 2021, Reviews)
Lucy Dacus - Home Video (24th June 2021, Reviews)
Garbage - No Gods No Masters (10th June 2021, Reviews)
AFI - Bodies (10th June 2021, Reviews)
MAN ON MAN - MAN ON MAN (6th May 2021, Reviews)
Salem - Salem II (6th May 2021, Reviews)
Glüme - The Internet (29th April 2021, Reviews)
Skullcrusher - Storm In Summer (8th April 2021, Reviews)
Nasty Cherry - The Movie (1st April 2021, Reviews)
Julien Baker goes full band at her virtual Nashville show (29th March 2021, Reviews)
NewDad - Waves (25th March 2021, Reviews)
serpentwithfeet - DEACON (25th March 2021, Reviews)
Citizen - Life In Your Glass World (25th March 2021, Reviews)
Tigers Jaw - I Won’t Care How You Remember Me (4th March 2021, Reviews)
Julien Baker - Little Oblivions (25th February 2021, Reviews)
Celeste - Not Your Muse (28th January 2021, Reviews)
Lynks - Smash Hits Vol. 2 (27th January 2021, Reviews)
Lande Hekt - Going to Hell (21st January 2021, Reviews)
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