The biggest videogame release of 2012’s first six months is, surely, Max Payne 3.Developer Rockstar Games (Red Dead Redemption, Grand Theft Auto, etc) is rarely an outfit to do things by halves – and ...

For once, Tom Barman is apprehensive. Not about tonight’s dEUS show, but the two-hour DJ set he’s been booked to play at the official after party. “What has happened in the past is this ...

Further Reading: Bedhead – Transaction de Novo When people call slowcore sleepy or boring, they are referring to the aptly named Bedhead, a band who sound like they just woke up and can’t be bothered ...

The following year, 1989, as the genre began in earnest, an underground Shibuya-kei arms race began. Starting with the release of Pizzicato’s best album to date, On Her Majesty’s Request, which melded ...

Like so many aspects of popular culture, radio has been labelled as ‘dead’ by many commentators, usually old hacks struggling with the changing dynamics between audience and media, trying to denounce ...

Teenage Fanclub are something of an institution in indie rock circles. Formed in the Glasgow suburb of Bellshill some twenty-nine years ago, the core of the band - Norman Blake (vocals, guitar), ...

Urban Hymns, The Verve's legendary breakthrough album, turns 20 next month.Released on 29 September 1997, Urban Hymns was the band's third long player, and was recorded amidst band tensions between ...

This year, to save you from an overwhelming wall of names, we’ve refined our list. With just 16 albums this year, we hope you will find at least one album to fall in love with that you missed, plus a ...

As I write this, it’s five years to the day that R.E.M split and a terrifying 25 years since my cousin first played me Out Of Time on her in-car cassette player. I was too young to understand it, but ...

From one bunch of music lovers to another: Help us resuscitate our site and rebuild our infamous forums. Due to old code and a lack of investment over the years, it currently costs us over £700 per ...

Not everything on By Default is misogynistic, mind, it’s just that when the lyrics aren’t threatening or creepy, they make fuck all sense. It shouldn’t come as a huge surprise, I suppose that a band ...

In London for an almost literal ‘flying visit’, a two-day press junket to promote the upcoming release of new album Stranger to Stranger (his first since 2011’s So Beautiful or So What), it takes a ...