Contributor Emma Wilkes
Fucked Up - One Day
There’s a playful jubilance to its hop, skip and jump.
January 25, 2023 7:55am
Tracks: Boygenius, Arlo Parks, The National and more
This week’s bumper announcement collection has been a treat.
January 20, 2023 6:00pm
Dream Wife are prioritising “rawness” and “humour” on their forthcoming new album
A clarion call for compassion and humanity, on LP3 the punk trio are demanding the world does better.
January 6, 2023 4:30pm
Where The Heart Is: Big Joanie
Exploring ideas of connection and roots via their most sonically progressive work yet, Big Joanie are twisting punk to their own mould.
November 11, 2022 1:00pm
Tracks: Brockhampton, Creeper, Years & Years and more
Also a collaborative number from Kettering’s answer to Damon Albarn (?!).
November 5, 2022 10:00am
Big Joanie - Back Home
They’re making astronomical leaps.
November 4, 2022 7:59am
Dead Pony: “We want to make music that’s powerful and angry”
Going back to their alternative roots, Glasgow quartet Dead Pony are making primal rock designed to stir up the party.
November 2, 2022 3:00pm
Show Me The Body - Trouble The Water
A monster of a record in all the most creative ways.
October 28, 2022 7:50am
Birmingham’s O2 Insitute gets “sad” as Pup’s personality-fuelled punk returns to the UK
It’s undeniable that industrial quantities of wholesome fun have been had tonight.
October 26, 2022 12:00pm
WILLOW - <COPINGMECHANISM>
With fewer hands stirring the pot, she’s come even more into her own.
September 23, 2022 8:00am
Tracks: Carly Rae Jepsen, Fred again.., Willow and more
Make time for the biggest and best new songs released this week.
September 16, 2022 6:00pm
Starcrawler - She Said
As an album, ‘She Said’ is fine. Still, what’s rock‘n’roll about making music that doesn’t frequently get beyond fine?
September 14, 2022 7:51am
Tracks: Björk, Sorry, Blackstarkids and more
The biggest and best new songs from the week that was.
September 9, 2022 6:00pm
The 1975 and Arctic Monkeys bring the hits, while Megan Thee Stallion concludes 2022’s Hot Girl Summer at a blistering Reading Festival
Wolf Alice and Glass Animals make their cases for future headliner status across a wonderfully chaotic weekend of live music.
September 6, 2022 11:01am
“As two mixed girls in rock music to be shortlisted, that’s an amazing thing” - Nova Twins reflect on second LP ‘Supernova’
Ahead of the 2022 Mercury Prize with FREE NOW, we caught up with the rock duo to chat changing the game.
September 2, 2022 3:00pm
Muse - Will Of The People
A smorgasbord of dystopian-flavoured cringe.
August 24, 2022 8:00am
Ezra Furman - All Of Us Flames
A little mixed.
August 24, 2022 7:58am
Interpol - The Other Side of Make Believe
This is an album that asks for patience, and only on occasion is it duly rewarded.
July 13, 2022 7:57am
Nova Twins - Supernova
The duo are at the centre of a brightly burning, ever-expanding sonic explosion, all of their own making.
June 15, 2022 8:00am
Baby Strange - World Below
There’s a real sense of eclecticism.
June 15, 2022 7:56am