LIVE: The Hotelier @ The Dome, London

There was such intrusive emotiveness to The Hotelier’s second album ‘Home, Like Noplace Is There’, that when the band began playing songs from it live, they took an absolute hold of their audience in a way that only happen with a certain kind of band. ‘Goodness’ was more positively a slow burner. It was

The Hotelier: “We couldn’t really get any darker”

LIVE: Owen @ St Pancras Old Church, London

It’s strange to think that Mike Kinsella has so much to offer one of the oldest sites of Christian worship in dusty old England. Tonight, the first of two insanely intimate performances inside St Pancras Old Church, a building in existence since the start of the 9th Century, promises

Busted – ‘Night Driver’

Anyone shuddering at the thought of Charlie, James, and Matt, now in their 30s, adhering to nostalgia and thrashing out twelve mindless pop songs about teenage teacher fantasies and an underwater future, will be relieved that ‘Night Driver’ couldn’t be further from anything the band managed over a decade

Dancehall channel the best of garage punk in new ‘V’s & G’s’ video

Dancehall showcase their brilliant, engaging brand of garage punk in new video for debut single ‘V’s and G’s’. With driving basslines and stabbing guitar lines, the tightly produced track manages to tread a reverb heavy path somewhere between garage-punk and shoegaze. There’s an uptight, frenetic energy to Dancehall that somehow feels rooted in the 80’s post-punk and Krautrock

Six Time Champion – ‘More Than Me’

Since The Hotelier’s ‘Home Like Noplace Is There’ in 2014, it’s been hard not to hold every other release in the alternative, emo, and pop-punk scenes against that of the Massachusetts quartet. This resurgence in excellence in the alternative genre is something that’s been missing for a while

Interview: Middle Distance

Buckinghamshire definitely isn’t renowned for its emo scene, but Middle Distance have started making waves from their hometown of Chesham with their superb debut EP ‘Losing Colour’, produced by Sam Winfield (Amber Run, Fickle Friends). With pull from bands like Braid and American Football, their string of demos have seen