Call Upon The Author

I hadn’t heard anything from The Pigeon Detectives in ages, I was never a huge fan of these guys when they were releasing chart toppers, so I really wasn’t sure what was going through my head when I took up the chance to go see them. I managed to find a copy of their first album [...]

Portsmouth favourites Bemis recently released a new album… it’d be rude not to have a listen, wouldn’t it?

We’ve never been great at maths, so when we were asked to Minus The Bear, we decided Graham Rice was the man for the job.

The Title Sequence are two English lads who have been friends since they were kids, and who now make idiosyncratic music together… We tasked Ally Morris to find out just how pleasant that music is!

Matt Merritt’s love of The B OF The Bang predates this site, so who else could we pick to review their latest release?

Axel is back with a new release for Record Store Day. We loved the album, so this was a must listen!

We sent our own Matt Merritt to check out highly touted Irish youngsters Kodaline

When we were sent a copy of Joe Black’s album we realised only one man could do it justice… our own bowler hat-toting polka-punk, Jack Wiseman! Beware, there are naughty words used here, but they’re used so very well!

We’ve heard lots about Valerie June and, frankly, we think she’s a bit good! We sent Justin Parry to check her out and along the way he came across a lad called Jake…

Matt Merritt checks out the recent release from Icons of Elegance, two Finnish brothers who fuse pop, folk and a whole lot more into a catchy whole!