Laura Marling brings beauty to the Roundhouse
Tonight is the most settled and confident the singer has ever seemed.
21st March 2017
Reviews
Dream Wife, Partybaby and more close SXSW 2017 in style at DIY’s Maggie Mae’s showcase
Sløtface, Her’s, Weaves and QTY were also on hand to wave b’bye to Austin.
19th March 2017
Spoon - Hot Thoughts
3 Stars
A well-thought rush of blood, a planned frisson. It’s a turn on with limits.
17th March 2017
Sorority Noise - You’re Not As _____ As You Think
4 Stars
Where Sorority Noise really shine is through the songs that evolve to embody their every dynamic.
17th March 2017
Real Estate - In Mind
3 Stars
This is classic laid-back Real Estate, and while there is comfort in the familiar, at times it can feel a little lax.
17th March 2017
Conor Oberst - Salutations
4 Stars
Rich, nuanced, and steeped in major key melodies.
17th March 2017
Frances - Things I’ve Never Said
3 Stars
17th March 2017
Pulled Apart By Horses - The Haze
4 Stars
Gritty and unmistakably British.
17th March 2017
Noname shines in the sun at SXSW 2017
Stars this bright don’t come along very often; get on board before she’s selling out thousand-strong arenas in a heartbeat.
17th March 2017
Glass Animals bring a carnival to Brixton Academy
The confidence they exude makes it clear that tonight’s simply a step on the way to complete domination.
17th March 2017
Feist – Pleasure
Six years after ‘Metals,’ Leslie Feist is back, rawer and more vital than ever before.
17th March 2017
Lydia Ainsworth – Into The Blue
The Toronto singer and producer’s latest dark electropop single is one of her most confident efforts to date.
16th March 2017
H.Grimace – Call It Out
The London band’s latest is a driving, sometimes chaotic post-punk thrill-ride.
16th March 2017
The xx spend an extremely special week at Brixton Academy
It’s a week that will live long in the memory of London from a band that provide its most universal soundtrack.
14th March 2017
The best things we saw at SXSW 2017, day one
Our first round-up of the buzziest and most bizarre sights from Austin, Texas this year.
14th March 2017
Muncie Girls, Forth Wanderers and Doe kick off SXSW with DIY x TicketWeb party
Jamie Isaac and SuperGlu also played a British Music Embassy takeover.
14th March 2017
Calvin Harris - Slide (ft. Frank Ocean + Migos)
This lot might’ve just written the first entry for Pop Bop Banger of the Summer 2017™.
14th March 2017
Embers - Unbound
Even from its acoustic guitar-based beginning, the sense that a storm is coming is unavoidable.
13th March 2017
Laura Marling - Semper Femina
4 Stars
Yet another hard-to-pin, experimental statement.
10th March 2017
Circa Waves - Different Creatures
4 Stars
Loud and swaggering, the defiance of youth compressed into song format.
10th March 2017
IDLES - Brutalism
4 Stars
As vital as it is volatile.
10th March 2017
Jay Som - Everybody Works
4 Stars
Simultaneously aloft with cloud-like serenity and anchored in real world anxieties.
10th March 2017
The Shins - Heartworms
3 Stars
Five years after the big, bright ‘Port Of Morrow’, James Mercer is more contemplative.
10th March 2017
Cameron Avery - Ripe Dreams, Pipe Dreams
3 Stars
It’s hard not to fall head over heels for his honest charms.
10th March 2017
Featuring Yard Act, Death Cab For Cutie, Graham Coxon, Maisie Peters and more.