A new Mariachi El Bronx album can’t have been on many bingo cards for 2026, right? The sincere mariachi alter-egos of The Bronx have taken over a decade away from the spotlight, and the announcement ...

Joyce Manor have distilled the sound of watching gentrification happen to your favourite grimy neighbourhood into Californian punk gold. Their sixth album, ‘I Used To Go To This Bar’ drips with ...

Diving straight in with ‘Leader of the Free World’, which is by far the most mellow intro to a Kid Kapichi show I’ve ever experienced, they then follow it up with ‘Intervention’, which harks back to ...

Delayed mourning hangs in the atmosphere at O2 Forum Kentish Town. The Wonder Years are at the end of their four date run of the UK to celebrate the re-issue of ‘No Closer To Heaven’, and after their ...

Jagged City is an ideal name for this project. Not just because its collaborators are based in different locations, but because there is a spiky, slightly unfriendly feel to their music, the kind of ...

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So, when Sick Joy announced their first album in three years, it would make sense not to be excited. It would be a bad idea to listen to their incredible ‘Them Days’ EP – or to their debut album ...

Shields are not a new band. They folded back in 2018 after the tragic loss of their founding guitarist George Christie. This means that ‘Death & Connection’ is more than a comeback record. After seven ...

Whatever Taylor’s going through, he’s certain that he’s going to win, and the impending victory drives ‘The Fallout’. “Those kings will fall,” he crows on ‘Kings’, another impending live favourite, ...

Joyce Manor have distilled the sound of watching gentrification happen to your favourite grimy neighbourhood into Californian punk gold. Their sixth album, ‘I Used To Go To This Bar’ drips with ...

Downcast’s ‘Nothing Left To Give’ is a confident and compelling four-track statement from the Bristol emo up-and-comers, showcasing not only their growth as songwriters but also their willingness to ...

Saturday morning arrives with all the grace of a brick through a window. The campsite looks like a bomb’s gone off – there are at least three gazebos in trees that definitely weren’t there yesterday, ...