Genre: shoegaze For those who don’t know, My Bloody Valentine formed in the 80s and have been the go-to band for shoegaze fans ever since. …

Genre: math-rock/alt Now I know I may be becoming a little Foals obsessed, but the fact is I already was. I went to see Foals …

Genre: alt-pop So if it wasn’t already apparent, I am a massive Foals fan. I’ve had this album, their new one, on pre-order for three …

Genre: grunge/punk/alt Dinosaur Jr. are a well defined band having established themselves more than sufficiently over the past two decades and definitely brought that back …

Genre: math rock/heavy Marmozets are a band on the circuit being marketing as the new guys in math rock, a genre previously dominated by the …

Genre: folk/alt While the simple, harmonised and melodic Peter and Kerry do have an album out now (La Trimouille), I decided against reviewing that in …

Genre: prog-rock-jazz fusion TNT is an album I got out the music library, on a whim, from their very diminished prog-rock section (sitting next to …

I’ve thought about this a fair bit, and the first thing that came to my mind as quintessentially local was definitely hardcore and its development …

Genre: pop-punk Ok so I totally went to see Blink-182 on wednesday, and they were TOTALLY amazing. I know this band, in the 90s, were …

Almost disturbingly home-made, yet unsurprisingly catchy. Check out this cool tune, Beg from Bombay Cycle Club: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6TYpvtMWQKU1 C x