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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 …

This UK band have been shaking up the indie scene in a big way for around a year now – Sports Team are one of the most intriguing and characteristic bands on the rock horizon who are deniably doing their own thing – even if I can’t quite put my finger on what makes them so unique and fascinating. They’ve seen an overwhelming response …

In the US, skateboarding culture has long been intertwined with popular music. As early as 1964, Californian duo Jan & Dean recorded “Sidewalk Surfin”, an adaptation of The Beach Boys’ “Catch a Wave” with new lyrics associated with skateboarding. In the early-to-mid-80s, however, skateboard-riding punk/hardcore acts such as JFA, Hogan’s Heroes, Suicidal Tendencies, Agression, The Offspring and NOFX built sizeable …

Northampton singer Billy Lockett has been making waves in the pop scene since 2016 after the debut of his EP “Burn it Down”. Before that, he was known for his guitar performances and for supporting Lana Del Rey and Birdy on their tour in 2014. Shortly after the tour, his father passed away, leading to Lockett sitting in the cellar …

“Despite the fact that electronic music is the outcome of decades of technical development, it is only in most recent times that it has reached a stage at which it may be considered as part of the legitimate musical sphere”, one of the founding fathers of electronic music, Herbert Eimert, wrote in 1955 just four years after he established the …

Roots music or American traditional folk music include many categories of music as bluegrass, gospel, blues and Cajun to bring up a few examples, and have a special place in the history of music especially in the American South where it partly was intertwined in the process that brought forward The Emancipation Proclamation – black slaves became free people. Thus …