Local songwriters returned for the second incarnation of our monthly Live event, with another six stirring performances illuminating the evening...
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Thursday 13 February 2014: Birmingham’s Hare & Hounds plays host to a Cardiff C86-grunge act and an Massachusetts indie-rock foursome...
The legendary producer who reputedly ‘invented the Eighties’ reveals he’s an “awful engineer” and often didn’t take any songwriting credits...
C86 and grunge argue over who loves each other more in this superb example of the current revivalist noise-pop zeitgeist...
Album four sees Bombay Bicycle Club enhancing the electronic tinge that made ‘A Different Kind Of Fix’ such a treat...
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The Britpop band frontman turned solo singer-songwriter reveals a penchant for cryptic crosswords and an unremitting struggle with song titles...
Southend’s finest psychedelic drone merchants unveil a debut that wears its influences on its sleeve but impresses all the same...
Her fourth album shows that Annie Clark has learnt to trust her instincts, with an exceptional palette of art-rock songs...
Hillary Barleaux recalls a time when ‘Dawson’s Creek’ dominated TV screens and the world’s airwaves were thick with piano-led alt-rock...
Barbara Trentalange returns with her first album in five years, and doesn’t disappoint with the soulful blues-grunge of ‘Same Illusion’...
On their self-titled EP, US teen four-piece The District pay tribute to Mississippi legends of yore with some superb blues-rock merican...
‘Real Hair’ is a brilliant slab of 90s indie-rock that’s not a revivalist’s heaven but a rival for heaven itself...
How I wrote 'Luka' by Suzanne Vega
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How I wrote 'Iris' by Goo Goo Dolls' John Rzeznik
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How I wrote 'Hey There Delilah' by Plain White T's' Tom Higgenson
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How I wrote 'Zombie' by The Cranberries' Dolores O'Riordan
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How I wrote 'Mad World' by Tears For Fears' Roland Orzabal
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How I wrote ''74-'75' by The Connells
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How we wrote 'Gran Torino' by Jamie Cullum
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How I wrote 'Turning Japanese' by The Vapors' David Fenton
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How we wrote ‘Big In Japan’ by Alphaville
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How I wrote 'The Living Years' by Mike + The Mechanics' Mike Rutherford
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