Phil Smithies
Youth & Young Manhood: Mura Masa (2nd May 2020, Features)
The Road Less Travelled: The Big Moon (14th February 2020, Features)
Tame Impala: Slow and Steady Wins The Race (31st January 2020, Features)
Class of 2020: Another Sky (19th December 2019, Features)
Class of 2020: Squid (16th December 2019, Features)
Class of 2020: Biig Piig (12th October 2019, Features)
Class of 2020: Talk Show (12th September 2019, Features)
Sunshine People: Friendly Fires (14th August 2019, Features)
Unite and conquer: Frank Carter & The Rattlesnakes (14th May 2019, Features)
Burning down the house: The Japanese House (3rd May 2019, Features)
Suspending the madness: Hayden Thorpe (12th April 2019, Features)
Blonde Ambition: Du Blonde (25th February 2019, Features)
Class Of 2019: Fontaines DC (14th December 2018, Features)
Class Of 2019: slowthai (13th December 2018, Features)
Class Of 2019: Whenyoung (12th December 2018, Features)
Raw power: Nadine Shah (27th November 2018, Features)
St. Vincent, Chemical Brothers, Reykjavíkurdætur and more make Slovakia’s Pohoda Festival a leftfield gem (7th November 2018, Reviews)
Lush Life: Snail Mail (6th November 2018, Features)
His Beautiful Dark Twisted Fantasy: John Grant (10th October 2018, Features)
Weird world: Fucked Up (10th August 2018, Features)
Fighting Talk: Miles Kane (30th July 2018, Features)
Class Of 2019: Sports Team (12th July 2018, Features)
Daydream Believers: Black Honey (6th July 2018, Features)
Matt Maltese: A different kind of love song (6th July 2018, Features)
Full house: Sports Team (26th June 2018, Features)
Inside Courtney’s Barnett (14th May 2018, Features)
Never say die: Chvrches (30th March 2018, Features)
The Fantastic Mr George (Ezra) (26th March 2018, Features)
King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard transform Brixton Academy into their own ‘Gizz-verse’ for the night (23rd February 2018, Reviews)
Morris, dancing: Rae Morris (2nd February 2018, Features)
Bad Witches: Dream Wife (2nd January 2018, Features)
Class of 2018: Sälen (14th December 2017, Features)
Class of 2018: Superorganism (13th December 2017, Features)
Mr Jukes: Our Friend’s Eclectic (7th December 2017, Features)
Class of 2018: Pale Waves (1st December 2017, Features)
Child’s Play: Superfood (9th November 2017, Features)
The Killers: it’s a wonderful life (3rd November 2017, Features)
The Cribs: Punk as F**k (8th October 2017, Features)
Lightning Strike: Waxahatchee (7th October 2017, Features)
Jerkcurb your enthusiasm (27th September 2017, Features)
Class of 2018: Ten Tonnes (12th September 2017, Features)
The Magic Gang come home for infectious Bestival 2017 set (9th September 2017, Reviews)
The xx dazzle with Bestival 2017 headline set (9th September 2017, Reviews)
The next life: Wolf Alice (8th September 2017, Features)
The Only Way Is Essex: Rat Boy (8th September 2017, Features)
Just like (In)heaven (30th August 2017, Features)
Born to win: Ten Tonnes (24th July 2017, Features)
The kids aren’t alright: Declan McKenna (20th July 2017, Features)
The best things we saw at Latitude 2017, day three (17th July 2017, Reviews)
Fleet Foxes are spellbinding as they return to UK soil to close Latitude 2017 (17th July 2017, Reviews)
Mumford & Sons bring a cast of friends along to headline Latitude 2017 day two (16th July 2017, Reviews)
The best things we saw at Latitude 2017, day two (16th July 2017, Reviews)
The 1975 point to the future in stunning Latitude 2017 headline set (15th July 2017, Reviews)
The best things we saw at Latitude 2017, day one (15th July 2017, Reviews)
Facing forwards: Nilüfer Yanya (13th July 2017, Features)
Sisters, Ledge: Haim (7th July 2017, Features)
Nobody puts Jack in the Box: Bleachers (19th June 2017, Features)
Class of 2018: Our Girl (12th June 2017, Features)
Pixx Up, Look Sharp (6th June 2017, Features)
All the world’s a stage: Father John Misty (4th May 2017, Features)
Every dog has its day: Mac DeMarco (26th April 2017, Features)
Will Joseph Cook: Ready, Steady, Cook! (13th April 2017, Features)
Class of 2018: Goat Girl (12th April 2017, Features)
To Infinity and Beyond: The Big Moon (31st March 2017, Features)
Cherry Glazerr bring a whole lot of fun to Camden Assembly (3rd January 2017, Reviews)
More to prove: Slaves (14th October 2016, Features)
Burn the witch: The Wytches (27th September 2016, Features)
Mitski: Reborn In The USA (16th June 2016, Features)
GIRLI: “I want people to feel uncomfortable!” (19th February 2016, Features)
DIIV: a sea of trouble (2nd January 2016, Features)
The time is Nao: “I sing into my cupboard” (9th December 2015, Features)
The Big Moon: “Never in a hundred years would I go to the moon” (9th December 2015, Features)
INHEAVEN: “We’ll hit the ground running in the new year” (9th December 2015, Features)
Battles get the wheels turning at London comeback (6th November 2015, Reviews)
Don’t Stop B’lieveing: Kurt Vile (24th September 2015, Features)
Chaos theory - Girl Band: “I threw a spoon” (21st September 2015, Features)
Hooton and Howling: A day in the life with Hooton Tennis Club (27th August 2015, Features)
Spector: “We had to go away and ask, ‘Who are we?’” (15th August 2015, Features)
The determined, do-it-yourself route of Demob Happy (5th August 2015, Features)
Jamie T strips it back at intimate Hackney Empire show (15th June 2015, Reviews)
Palma Violets: “There’s no producer in the world who could ever make us sound professional” (5th June 2015, Features)
Rat Boy: “I wanna try and find Frank Ocean and put him on a song” (29th April 2015, Features)
Passion Pit: “I could never pull off a true pop record” (20th April 2015, Features)
Formation: “It can’t be anything but pop” (31st March 2015, Features)
FIDLAR: “Just do whatever you want. If you wanna try it, fucking try it” (9th March 2015, Features)
Coming Home: Meet Leon Bridges (4th March 2015, Features)
The “everything for everyone” attitude of Shamir (29th January 2015, Features)
TĀLĀ: “Our house was a big cultural source” (27th October 2014, Features)
Palace: “We thought we might be the shittest band in the world” (14th October 2014, Features)
Kwabs: “Through a darkness I want to achieve a sense of hope” (6th October 2014, Features)
Real Lies: “The London scene has been a disgrace for the past fifteen years” (26th August 2014, Features)
Green Man 2014 (21st August 2014, Reviews)
Slint, Brixton Electric, London (14th August 2014, Reviews)
Chvrches, Somerset House, London (19th July 2014, Reviews)
Sonisphere 2014 (14th July 2014, Features)
Teleman: “It’s a lot about mixing business and pleasure.” (29th May 2014, Features)
Lower Than Atlantis: “We felt free to do whatever the fuck we wanted” (10th April 2014, Features)
Jamie Woon: ‘We’ve Got A Few Things Lined Up…’ (24th August 2011, Features)
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