Rock & Pop
Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Valerie June, Angel Haze: new live music this week
I'll Be Your Mirror: Yeah Yeah Yeahs | Valerie June | Angel Haze | Ravi Coltrane | Avishai Cohen With Strings | A Scream And An Outrage I'll Be Your Mirror: Yeah Yeah Yeahs, London The Yeah Yeah Yeahs emerged in that wave of New York creativity that bro
Savages, Silence Yourself, album review
What makes post-punk, London-based four-piece Savages so compelling is their fierce focus, says Helen Brown.Savages: 'It's about trying not to treat the audience like idiots'
Influenced by arthouse cinema and visceral post-punk, Savages are a band who take their music very seriously. So seriously, in fact, that it's hard to tell if they even enjoy being in a band together
Shovels and Rope: O' Be Joyful - review
(Decca) A sassy country woman and indie dude playing pop steeped in country and Americana, Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst are inevitably comparable to the Civil Wars , who clocked up the Grammy awards with a similar sound a year ago. However, you wShovels and Rope: O' Be Joyful - review
(Decca) A sassy country woman and indie dude playing pop steeped in country and Americana, Michael Trent and Cary Ann Hearst are inevitably comparable to the Civil Wars , who clocked up the Grammy awards with a similar sound a year ago. However, you wSavages: Silence Yourself - review
(Matador) Thus far, this year's hotly tipped alt-rockers have sounded weirdly flaccid and aimless: listening to the albums behind the hype, you find yourself wondering how the bands could be bothered to make them. That is not a problem with the debut froSavages: Silence Yourself - review
(Matador) Thus far, this year's hotly tipped alt-rockers have sounded weirdly flaccid and aimless: listening to the albums behind the hype, you find yourself wondering how the bands could be bothered to make them. That is not a problem with the debut fro
Noah and the Whale: Heart of Nowhere - review
(Mercury) Under Charlie Fink's leadership, Twickenham's N&TW have evolved from T-shirted indie-folksters to preppy, drivetime rock band, going platinum with their last album, 2011's Last Night on Earth . That record saw Fink's Lou Reed-lite vocals frontNoah and the Whale: Heart of Nowhere - review
(Mercury) Under Charlie Fink's leadership, Twickenham's N&TW have evolved from T-shirted indie-folksters to preppy, drivetime rock band, going platinum with their last album, 2011's Last Night on Earth . That record saw Fink's Lou Reed-lite vocals front