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Yee Loi on their debut album: “It’s the best punk rock & roll album of the last twenty-thirty years”
Are you missing good old-fashioned punk rock and roll, the kind that gets you remorselessly, hypnotically bopping your head to the sound of a killer riff? Well, look no further than riotously cool Liverpool rockers Yee Loi, powered by two sisters, Rose and Matilda.
Gogol Bordello’s Eugene Hütz: “We’re spear headers of our own trajectory”
“Music is the meaning of life for me, and for other people, they just may not know it,” said Eugene Hütz, whose multinational band Gogol Bordello has been going for almost 30 years, and with We Mean It, Man! released earlier this year, they are showing no signs of slowing down.
Interview: Alex Spencer chats Reading & Leeds, touring with Louis Tomlinson, and his biggest year so far
For rising Manchester-based singer-songwriter Alex Spencer, Reading & Leeds weekend was more than just another festival on an increasingly packed touring schedule.
Interview: Overpass chat ahead of their Reading Festival return
Speaking backstage ahead of their Friday performance on The Ballroom stage, Indie Armstrong and Elliot Rawlings were preparing to return to a festival that already holds plenty of personal memories for the band.
Interview: Man/Woman/Chainsaw on their new album ‘Cannonball’, life on tour, and ‘Indie Poo’.
Erazer Mag caught up with Billy Doyle and Emmie-May Avery from Man/Woman/Chainsaw ahead of their UK & Ireland tour this month.
Daytime TV – Showcase at Third Man Records
If you thought that Daytime TV were a super group comprising of Alison Hammond, Bradley Walsh and two of the frequently reoccurring auctioneers from ‘Homes Under the Hammer’ then I’m afraid to say that you are sadly mistaken. They are in fact a very talented band of lovely people who I had a quick chat with and listen to at Jack White’s very own Third Man Records Store in Soho. What the actual icky-thump? I hear you say. Yes, a very cushy day at the office was had by me and long may that continue.
Interview: Marshall Gilmour Webbs
From Tom Petty to Jools Holland, Marshall Gilmour Webbs have worked with artists that span rock and roll history, and after meeting each other as backing singers on David Gilmour’s Luck and Strange tour, the quartet are carving their own path in the folk music world.
Interview: Daisy Peacock on her Truck Festival debut: “It was amazing!”
For singer-songwriter Daisy Peacock, her first-ever Truck Festival could hardly have gone better.
Interview: Prog rock legends Soft Machine on touring 60 years since their formation
Despite forming in 1966, prog rock-turned-jazz rock heroes Soft Machine only performed at Fairport’s Cropredy Convention for the first time this year, bringing an hour of classics to thousands of music fans braving the heatwave.
Interview: Circa Waves on T-Shirt Weather, festival crowds, and what comes next
“Songs will always win, and maybe one day you’ll catch fire and get lucky.” There is a mixture…