Kamasi Washington debuts ‘Heaven and Earth’ in Manchester and slaps the malaise of 2018 in its stupid faceshort8 May 2018
If you don’t mind the walk via PC World, Test Pressing is London’s most impressive new DIY punk festivalshort2 May 2018
Charlotte Gainsbourg plays so rarely that some people were happy to listen to her while staring at a wall last nightshort30 Mar 2018
Rejjie Snow, Wiki and slowthai on the same bill was three different approaches to the art of hip-hopshort19 Mar 2018
On his 76th birthday John Cale’s ‘Futurespective’ was a celebration, jam session and experimental rock operashort12 Mar 2018
Castlemania was an evening with Thee Oh Sees and the cream of the Castle Face label familyshort5 Mar 2018
There's a certain edge lacking to Kelela's visually stunning but ultimately quite cold live showshort23 Feb 2018
Nils Frahm’s latest show features bog brushes and an organ so big it has its own dressing roomshort23 Feb 2018
Wild Beasts are the band that refused to get older and shitter – their exit was a celebration of dignityshort20 Feb 2018
While we all cashed in 2-4-1 Pizza Express vouchers, Jen Cloher played a Valentines show with wife Courtney Barnett in her backing bandshort16 Feb 2018
To absolutely no-one’s surprise the Kendrick Lamar arena tour is totally fucking brilliantshort12 Feb 2018
Iceland Airwaves festival 2017: 5 days of discovery in the home of the world’s only penis museumshort14 Dec 2017
‘Les Trans’ was among the first festivals to book Nirvana and Björk, almost 40 years in it’s still managing to get the best new music firstshort12 Dec 2017
Last night was the UK live debut of James Holden’s latest mutation – his Animal Spirits projectshort7 Dec 2017
An Alex Cameron live review – “I’ve been playing in London for years, where the fuck have you all been?”short7 Dec 2017
Turns out that Sorry aren’t the kind of DIY bedroom band that sit around doing nothing all dayshort6 Dec 2017
A King Krule live show unites the indie, metal and rap kids – where they mosh together to saxophone solosshort23 Nov 2017
With paper plates on their faces, Pussy Riot Theatre is of course humorous as well as menacing and totally defiantshort20 Nov 2017
It’s been forever since Fleet Foxes toured properly in Europe – they returned with a female choir in Icelandshort8 Nov 2017
Swimsuits, fem-rap and Butlers in the Buff delivering shots – a night at the museum with Reykjavíkurdæturshort3 Nov 2017
Last night we watched Benjamin Clementine skate around a stage on a bit of scaffolding, singing to mannequinsshort3 Nov 2017
