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SONS had released their debut album Family Dinner and popped by Hamburg for two shows at Molotow’s 29th birthday bash in November and we had a chat with a band that had huge plans for the future and their goal set for America. It was the end of 2019 and what happened just a few months later made a massive …

There’s a new household name in the indie discopop scene! Put Dutch seven-piece Son Mieux on your mind because something big is about to happen. After their successful debut EP Vices Versa in 2016, the band worked their way up the ladder in the Dutch scene gaining a reputation for being a wild and energetic live act, and their 2019 …

In 2002, four young lads that met at Stafford University during their music technology studies relocated to Birmingham after graduation and decided to put together a band in the massive post-punk era that swept the UK in the early 2000s. A series of well-received club dates and demo recordings earned the band some attention and they ended up signing with …

Last year, We Were Promised Jetpacks returned with their fifth album Enjoy the View but the pandemic stopped the band from doing a full album tour and tome parts it had to be postponed until now. Just as on the previous album tours, I was in for another album tour experience – been to them all – and my seventh …

An early evening in Hamburg and the doors opened to a very special event. For most people lining up in front of Strandkorb Open Air this was for sure their first concert in a very long time and a somewhat unusual one. The audience at the Cruise Center Finkenwerder was allowed to sit in pairs in beach chairs, overviewing a …

Weedy-thin gambolling guitar lines pitched against hi-hat-spanking splashy indie pop beats – few movements in music were built on narrower tropes than late-noughties indie. To hear Giant Rooks launch into “Wild Stare“, one of their stock-in-trade breakout singles, and watch a fairly crowded Cruise Inn venue go bananas for it, is to appreciate how thoroughly music has changed in the …