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Describing Desperate Journalist with just one genre label like post punk or indie doesn’t really do them justice. The four-piece from London keeps carving out their own niche with third album “In Search of the Miraculous”, combining different musical influences into their own blend. And it seems that singer Jo Bevan, guitarist Rob Hardy, bassist Simon Drowner and drummer Caz …

Just after the world entered the 2010s, the British music press declared the death of indie rock music. Dirty Projectors’ David Longstreth meant that the scene was now largely a “musically underwhelming” xerox of groups that came before, “an amorphous genre of music primarily defined by its frequent public agonizing over what it is and isn’t”, and he didn’t even …

Meeting Charly Bliss was pretty much love at first sight. The love they have for each other is equally worthy of adoration and endearment. Sitting down with Eva and Spencer six days ahead of their big album release for their second LP “Young Enough“, we had plenty to talk about. Starting on the very important fact that it is not only record …

Malmö four-piece FEWS, an American/British/Swedish kraut-inspired post-punk story, signed a record deal after sending a demo link to their Soundcloud page to a “random person” at record label PIAS, ending up in the release of their first album “Means” in 2016 – with that random person as their manager. They also tried to reach out to Swedish international superstar football …

Demons of Ruby Mae can’t help but appear a tad annoyed, whenever people try to define their music. I guess you can’t really blame them: after years of hearing definitions as disparate as “indie pop”, “acoustic”, “electronica” and at one time even “folk”, it must get annoying. Multi-instrumentalists Adam Rowley and Jonny Gavin have played in bands since their teenage …

We’re off to UK’s spiritual home of heavy rock on the festival scene in June! And we already have a huge problem: There’s so much metal, so little time!  Download Festival is one of the UK’s and arguably the world’s greatest rock and metal music festivals, showcasing a lineup of the scene’s biggest names and breakthrough stars in Donington Park …