Warpaint return from a six-year lay-off with the same line-up but a glitchy, claustrophobic new sound on Champion. (more…)

In many ways Bodega seem like a computer-generated hipster band from Brooklyn, if not the most pretentious band in the world. But I like ’em. (more…)

About 25 years ago I wrote a big exposé about one of the first New Age ambient albums, called Sacred Spirit. (more…)

Steady Habits sound like an old-timey country music band from somewhere in the American South – but actually come from Oxford. (more…)

Music with a message doesn’t come much more infectious than Charlotte Adigéry’s anti-racist dance banger, Blenda. (more…)

A second new tune by Sharon Van Etten in as many months suggests a new solo album must be on the horizon. (more…)

Gary Brooker was the Hackney-born pianist and singer with Britain’s originators of progressive rock, Procol Harum. (more…)

L.A.Witch are a kind of psychedelic surfer stoner trio who sound like the Jesus & Mary Chain might have done if they’d come from the Valley instead of a high-rise council estate outside Glasgow. (more…)

An evening of avant-garde music involving found objects, sampled voices, electronic noises, drums, trombones… and bubblewrap. (more…)

Michael Chapman

Another Fish

Today would have been the 81st birthday of the great Yorkshire guitarist Michael Chapman, who died last September.  (more…)