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Single Review: Polar - Create

"I NEVER SWEAR ON LIVES," Polar vocalist Woody screams out at the onset. Polar leave you with no questions as to why...

Album Review: Cayucas - Big Foot

Cayucas are totally from California. Less than a minute into their first album and they’re already mythologising...

Single Review: Ligers - 'Break You' and...

London-based 4-piece Ligers drop a honey-soaked offering next month that will suit anyone who desires something breezy yet...

Album Review: The Knife - Shaking the...

Somewhere between the birth of reality TV and the cult of ‘celebrity’ twitter, culture got hijacked by stupid. Pop...

Live Review: Meat Loaf at The O2, London

In Meat Loaf's second song 'Life Is A Lemon And I Want My Money Back' he is already keeling over and struggling to...

Album Review: Major Lazer - Free the...

In the space of a couple of years, Major Lazer mastermind Diplo has leapt from being a hipster DJ with a canny line in...

Single Review: Dials - Exodus (Miracle)

South-East Rock band Dials released their début single on Monday. Given that most bands on the planet send us their...

Single Review: Bobbie Gordon - Skin

Bobbie Gordon releases her first slice of new material in a fair while. As an in-demand vocalist, who has performed with Adele,...

Live Review: Ellie Goulding, Bush Hall

On a damp spring evening, I took to the concealed four walls of Bush Hall to discover HP Connected’s secret show...

Album Review: Diamond Rugs - Diamond Rugs

Can you call a band made up of moonlighting indie musicians a Super Group? I’m not sure the terminology fits with the...

Album Review: Peace - In Love

A variety of music journalists – who should possibly know better - have led me to believe that Peace are IT....

Live Review: Berlin Unhinged Festival in...

Unhinged is an independent institution from Berlin that has tirelessly worked on the principle of binding late-night clubbing...

Single Review: Har Mar Superstar - Lady,...

Here's something different for your Friday afternoon. It sounds more like Leo Sayer than Har Mar Superstar but that's...

Album Review: James Blake - Overgrown -...

*This was selected as one of Supajam's best bits of 2013, either by being the most read, specially chosen by our staff, or...

Album Review: Hadouken: Every Weekend

Hadouken!: Every Weekend Oh for goodness sake. I was really trying to like this one, as I remembered first...

Single Review: Mikill Pane - Good Feeling

Mikill Pane has been lurking in the background for a while now. His collaborations with Ed Sheeran, Rizzle Kicks, Example,...

Album Review: David Bowie - The Next Day

Bowie is as good a cultural barometer as we’ve got. His endless permutations have been driven from without as much as...

Single Review: Parquet Courts - Smart...

First of all, this is currently an exclusive for the Guardian so follow that link for the track... Here's the 'B'...

Single Review: Passion Pit - Constant...

Passion Pit have today released a remix of their single 'Constant Conversations' by strange choice of Three 6...

Single Review: Vondelpark -California...

Vondelpark started life as one the many 'UK Garage plus shoegaze guitars' outfits that sprung up a couple of years...

Single Review: Don Broco - Whole Truth

All round the land A&R men know that the shiny production line pop gig is up. Pretty much everyone has come to their senses...

Single Review: Rush Midnight - Don't Give...

Well this is quite the sleazy late night groover. I can't be certain that Rush Midnight plays his keyboards whilst wearing...

Album Review: Heavy on the Strawberries

If Heavy on the Strawberries were releasing their eponymous debut album a few years ago reviews would have started with a...

Album Review: Nick Cave The Bad Seeds -...

Push the Sky Away is a triumphant return. Nick Cave’s 15th album with the Bad Seeds eschews the noise rock of his recent...

Single Review: Damian Marley - Dem Neva...

Damian Marley proves that, despite what all good sense might suggest, Wild West honky tonk piano and ruffneck dancehall are a...

Single Review: Tribes - How the Other...

When you write about indie bands daily, you end up cynical. It's impossible not to. Every year a new bunch of chancers roll...

Single Review: Black Manila - Shake That...

Black Manila have been holed up in Toe Rag Studios, infamous alchemist lair responsible for the White Stripes Elephant as well...

Album Review: Mmoths - Diaries

By the 90s my Mum’s radical 80’s feminism had evolved into a vague, kindly spiritualism that took in positive...

Album Review: Thenewno2: Beautiful...

Well then. The soundtrack to a supernatural teenish romdram, brought to us by a band fronted by George Harrison’s son....

Single Review: They Might Be Giants -...

Debuted today on Stereogum, this new track from eighties' veteran's They Might Be Giants is a peach. With a...

Single Review: I Used To Be A Sparrow -...

Swedish act I Used To Be A Sparrow have produced something genuinely fresh sounding. Warpaint on Invisible Children stops...

Single Review: Rhye - Open (Ryan...

Ryan Hemsworth has become the go to guy for emotive post dubstep-ery, so it's no surprise that he's been enlisted to...

Single Review: The Family Rain - Carnival

Apparently The Family Rain come from Bath. They sound, however, more like they were found spitting and drunk, swinging bloodied...

Single Review: Charlie Brown - On My Way

Charlie Brown is 'on his way'. Cheers for the warning Charlie, it's given us just enough time to double lock the...

Single Review: Parquet Courts - Borrowed...

"It seems these days I'm captive in this borrowed time." This is an unbelievable track from a New York band whose...

Single Review: Theme Park - Tonight

Theme Park take a crack at rustling up some 80s yacht rock and don't do too bad a job at all. Tonight is as polished as a...

Single Review: Petite Noir - Disappear

Is there some irony in a young black South African tethering afrobeat guitar to coldwave indie in the style of every chancer...

Album Review: Atoms for Peace - Amok

Atom’s for Peace come with all the advance publicity- and attendant weight of expectation- your jobbing supergroup...

Single Review: Thom Yorke's Atoms For...

The trickling' build-up to the release of the Thom Yorke/Nigel Godrich/Flea/Joey Waronker/Maouro Refosco project Atoms for...

Album Review: Doldrums - Lesser Evil

Doldrums is a great word. That double ‘D’ makes an abstract emotional state onomatopoeic, the feeling of being...

Live Review: Modestep Thekla Bristol -...

Modestep @ Thekla, Bristol 7th Feb Jesus Christ. I am deep in the belly of an old boat, And I want to cut my fucking...

Live Review: The Pictish Trail feat....

South Street in Reading is an arts centre that I really hope is frequented often by the locals. It's the sort of small...

Single Review: DJ Koze ft Caribou- Track...

We don't know if this is coming out as a single, or if it's just a teaser for DJ Koze's forthcoming longplayer, and...

Album Review: Veronica Falls - Waiting...

Round about this time last year Veronica Falls released a debut of unashamedly retro indie pop. There wasn’t a sample,...

Single Review: Frightened Rabbit - The...

I doubt it's the Scottish accent that makes Frightened Rabbit frontman Scott Hutchinson sing like he forgot all words last...

Album Review: Cosmo Jarvis - Think Bigger...

Stream the album in full under the review You could never accuse Cosmo Jarvis of a lack of ambition. Think Bigger he says, then...

Album Review: C2C - Tetra

Turntablism, like pagers, Baywatch and Johnny Depp being in good films, belongs in the 90s. Grandmaster Flash (debatably)...

Album Review: Eels - Wonderful, Glorious

With Wonderful, Glorious Mark Everett has jacked in his stints moonlighting as a film maker and author, and returned to his...

Single Review: Moon Duo - Ich Werde Sehen

Taking their Krautrock ambitions to a logical (if slightly predictable) conclusion, Moon Duo have resung I Can See auf Deutsche...

Single Review: Jagwa Ma - The Throw

Christ knows what they've been slipping in the water in Sydney these last couple of years, but there's a lot of kids...

Album Review: Julian Cope - Saint Julian...

Julian Cope has spent the last 3 decades worked his way up to legendary status, partially through his superbly curated...

Live Review: Trojan Sound System

Jungle versus Reggae was brought to Blue Mountain Club on Stokes Croft by Trojan Sounds and stellar ethical clothing company...

Single Review: Nite Jewel - Memory, Man

Romana Gonzalez's latest offering speeds up her synthetic funk to a skipping quick step, the jerking rhythm twitching oddly...

Album Review: Modestep - Evolution Theory

Modestep live in a world of big dumb statements. I’d say they don’t write music; they write sounds to accompany...

Single Review: San Cisco - Wild Things

Wild Things sounds like San Cisco went down the market, picked up a pop hit, then swapped it for a sack of magic beans on the...

Single Review: Evil Alien - Higher Than...

WARNING - The video below has boobs and bum and fanny. Do not scroll down if you are not willing to see that sort of filth....

Single Review: Eaux - Too Dark To Tell

It's a surprise that The xx's success hasn't seen bands and labels rushing to cash in on their uniquely sparse...

Single Review: Declan Zapala - Broken...

We first saw Declan Zapala busking at Hop Farm Festival back in July. We've kept an eye on him since then and were very...

Single Review: Teleman - Cristina

New on Moshi Moshi, Teleman's debut is admirably sparse, a slightly wonky 50's ballad reimagined with warm keys and...

Single Review: Example - Perfect Replacement

One of the convenient things about 2013 only being a couple of weeks old is that it allows for definites - in this case, that...

Single Review: Foxygen - San Francisco

As a rule, I'm against the lazy use of the term 'hipster' applied to anything with a hint of artiness about it. I...

Album Review: Dead Sons - The Hollers and...

Dead Sons exist in a yowling alternate universe where the Arctic Monkeys have been remade as a gore filled B movie splatter...

Single Review: Bombers - Drawing Buddy's...

Imagine if The Horrors were still The Horrors, but their singer was a bit crap. Hello Bombers! For some reason this Birmingham...

Album Review: Mice Parade - Candela

“Never mind what you know// It’s only what you believe in// As the grey hairs start to show” opens...

Single Review: Chapel Club - Good Together

Ummmm ... huh...? What the hell just happened? This has got, like, a drum machine. And then there's all these synthy...

Single Review: Jesse Ware - If You're...

Although the title may have you thinking different, this new single from Jesse Ware was featured on her album as 110%. One...

Single Review: Active Child - His Eye Is...

Now winter has truly drawn in we can't think of anything finer than gathering up the blankets, whipping together a hot...

Single Review: Local Natives - Breaker

With an opening riff lifted wholesale from The Four Tops Motown classic Reach Out, I'll Be There, I was expecting...

Album Review: Dizzee Rascal - Dirtee TV 2

As with last year’s Dirtee TV 1, Dizzee’s latest free mixtape is a return to the ruffneck, all aggy lyrics spat and...

Single Review: Thumpers - Dancing's Done

Newly signed to Transgeressive offshoot ParadYse Records, childhood friends Marcus Pepperell and John Hamson Jr make up the...

Single Review: Dido ft Kendrick Lamar -...

Dido? You remermber Dido right? Ohmygodgreatnews! She's back and as far as I can tell this is the same song she was singing...

Single Review: Toy - Make It Mine

TOY round off a great year with a wistful new single, Make It Mine. As ever the band deliver 80s tinged psychedelia, swirling...

Album Review: Ruff Sqwad - White Label...

Grime was birthed in one the UK’s sporadic inner city spasms, the regular bursts of crazy creative magic that swell up...

Album Review: Green Day - Tre

If you were a band running short on ideas, at the end of a long career mining pretty much the same three chords album after...

Single Review: Snoop Lion - Here Comes...

Snoop struggles to make a crap tune doesn't he? Even the grubby fingers of Guetta couldn't make him sound totally...

Single Review: Ships - Places

Be warned, I spilt ball scalding hot tea down my crisply pressed strides when the second half of Places kicked in. Just letting...

Album Review: Sinkane - Mars

SInkane is the musical guise of Sudanese New Yorker Ahmad Gallad. Gallad is known in muso circles as an excellent live player,...

Single Review: Wheatus - Lemonade

Yup, them. That band who did that song (and that awsome cover) in the early 2000s that you probably haven't heard from...

Single Review: Nick Cave and the Bad...

The first single from the forthcoming Bad Seeds album is the kind of hushed hell ballad that Nick Cave probably sings his kids...

Live Review: Temples at Shacklewell Arms

Friday night in the Shacklewell Arms is usually busy but tonight it is rammed. Getting into the evenings free Temples show is a...

Album Review: Rihanna - Unapologetic

It’s hard not to come to Unapologetic without preconceptions, and for its part, the album scarcely bothers trying to...

Live Review: Skip and Die at Cargo

The lone sitar and precussive onslaught of ‘Jungle Riot’ opens up Dutch / South African band Skip & Die’s...

Album Review: Pinch: MIA 2006-2010

Pinch: MIA 2006-2010 So. I was asked to review something called ‘MIA 2006-2010’ by someone called...

Live Review: Crystal Castles Brixton...

Tonight’s Crystal Castles show ends with Alice Glass sobbing into the microphone. It’s a weird end to an intense...

Single Review: Solange - Lovers In The...

Hi hipsters! I see you've all taken Solange Knowles deep within your bosom. You lurve her, right? Shame you weren't...

Single Review: The Vaccines - I Always Knew

An understated single from The Vaccines, I Always Knew shows that everyone has to slow it down once in a while. This is...

Single Review: Haim - Don't Save Me

The buzz around Haim has been bubbling under for most of 2012. The three sisters are on the brink of a tour supporting Florence...

Album Review: Deftones - Koi No Yokan

Deftones never really seemed like the sort of band to stray from their trademark sonic attack, did they? And...

Album Review: Joe Driscoll Sekou Kouyate...

Faya is a meeting of musicians; New Yorker Joe Driscoll and Guinean kora maestro Sekou Kouyate. Driscoll speaks no French and...

Album Review: Action Bronson - Rare...

Bronson inhabits the tiny niche of fat, bald, ginger, Albanian descendent rappers with their own cooking show, who happen to be...

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