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"Cut me down, into little pieces before I could stand up," pines Gavin James in the sweet but soulful '22'. "So I build a wall out of all my secrets and now its opened up. And I remember the cold, ...
New York blues-rock duo, The London Souls, are a band you should definitely be watching. Not only because they're fast on the rise, but because they have one of the more interesting and tumultuous ...
It's a pretty bold for any band to have an album that's self-titled. It tends to mean that this one very record has captured the true essence of the artist. For The Ordinary Boys, it's especially b...
The end of the 2015 is drawing near, and with the coming of the new year comes the act of looking ahead to a new great bright hope. Lists upon lists of 'ones to watch' will be thrust upon you, but ...
They wormed their way into our hearts with 'Dreaming Of Another Girl', and if you flip it over to the other half of the double A-side, 'Long Way Down' further proves why Hidden Charms are set for h...
Ryder-Jones' third solo album, West Kirby County Primary, is out right now. A record that captures the melancholic but does so with a wry smile. The album artwork shows a smirking Bill in the batht...
Freddie Dickson's singing voice was once described by a music publication as "like someone has jabbed a blade into his vena cava." Intrigued and a little bit frightened, we invited him to perform '...
Love, life, warmth, pain and romance - all can be found in the wide and embracing spectrum of Say Lou Lou's heart-melting sound. Want proof? How about a stripped-back and gorgeous rendition of new ...
Ahead of their headline gig at London's Cargo, Phoria allowed Gigwise exclusive access to their soundcheck for an atmospheric performance of 'Red'. Watch it above.
"I think that Bowie will be thought of in the same terms that we think of Miles Davies and John Coltrane," Chic disco legend Nile Rodgers tells Gigwise, reflecting on the recent and tragic death of...
"People think I'm cool - and I don't understand it," Jack Garratt humbly tells Gigwise. Well, get used to it. The hype just stepped up a gear in not only winning the BRIT's Critics Choice Award, bu...
"I get people tweeting me saying 'oh, you've ruined the fucking band'," Bring Me The Horizon's Jordan Fish tells Gigwise. "Then I look back and two tweets ago they're going 'oh, this song's so sick...
"It's kind of like I feel like I'm Alice in Wonderland," Aurora tells Gigwise as we sit in Hoxton Square, musing over her ever-rising fame at just 19-years-old. "It's very wonderful, a bit scary an...
It's probably fair to say that Ho99o9's live show was the biggest talking point of The Great Escape. The duo's onstage presence exudes a disturbing, wide-eyed intensity as they thrash, as if posses...
"I feel like I need to shake this idea that I'm just really arrogant," Brandon Flowers tells Gigwise, utterly affable and self-deprecating as he smiles into the sunshine pouring through his London ...
"Oof - NAUGHTY!" bellows Spector's Fred MacPherson, as the bass kicks in on Latvia's 2015 Eurovision entry, 'Love Injected'. "This should defintely be on Radio One, that's the best one - even with ...
"It was weird for us, having a year out with throat surgery," While She Sleeps frontman Loz Taylor tells Gigwise of their recent drama. "At the click of a button, people can log on the internet and...
"I've heard people say that 'The Vaccines are good' or 'The Vaccines are bad', but I've never really ever heard anyone say we're important," frontman Justin Young tells Gigwise, "and I think that w...
"In all my years of playing, which have been many, I don't remember such a reaction to new stuff and stuff people have never heard before," Paul Weller tells Gigwise of his fans' response to playin...
"I would hope that both of our sets of fans would expect to be surprised," says Franz Ferdinand frontman Alex Kapranos of his band's ambitious collaboration his pop tearaway icons, Sparks. "Most pe...
Taking on a classic is a challenge like no other. These are the songs so ingrained in the public consciousness and weaved into the tapestry of music history, that everyone feels an ownership and co...
Mercury nominee and one of the most prolific artists that you could ever hope to hear, King Creosote is a singer-songwriter like no other. Unsurprisingly, his cover of dance classic 'Believe' by Ch...
This week saw the release of Hozier's self-titled debut album, the pay off for months and months of hard graft. It's a great piece of work, heavily infused with soul, an infuence that Andrew "Hozie...
Currently gearing up for the release of their aptly titled The Weird and Wonderful album on 29 September, Marmozets have been hitting the road hard this summer. Watch their exclusive live session a...
As far as mash-ups go, Royal Blood and Whitney Houston isn't the first one that springs to mind. But that's exactly what rising star Saint Raymond did when he performed 'Little Monster', seamlessly...
The Great Escape is a little overwhelming when it comes to checking out all the bands on the roster, but one of the bands that were on everyone's lips were Drowners, a New York band with a talent f...
5 April 2014 marked the 20th anniversary of Kurt Cobain's tragic suicide, with tributes having poured in from the music world, including covers from the likes of St. Vincent and Muse to mark the lo...
Hudson Taylor found fame on Youtube and busking on the streets of Dublin, they recently released their debut single 'Weapons' recently and are hard at work on their debut album.
Kate Bush today (21 March 2014) announced a string of live shows in London - her first in 35 years. Bush is a musical legend of the highest order she has numerous fans within the world of music, on...
'Why'd You Only Call Me When You're High' by the Arctic Monkeys has been covered by the good, the bad and the ugly of music, with Queens Of The Stone Age, Miley Cyrus and The Vamps all having a cra...
Throwing Muses frontwoman Kristin Hersh is an iconic figure of the 80s formulation of iconic label 4AD and the shape of indie music as we know it. Her upbringing had a huge part in moulding her as ...
San Cisco are one of the brightest new bands to surface in the past year, showcasing astonishing amounts of professionalism alongside a tendency to write incredibly catchy songs. Their self titled ...
After his double-win of Best Album and Best British Male at the 2015 BRIT Awards, Ed Sheeran took the time to honour Royal Blood, Sam Smith and George Ezra backstage.
Taylor Swift has spoken of her journey from obscurity to superstardom and paid tribute to her fans and Ed Sheeran after winning the BRIT Award for Best International female.
It was a huge night for Royal Blood at the 2015 BRIT Awards - taking home the Best British Group award as well as delivering a blistering performance of 'Figure It Out'. However, they seemed pretty...
Paloma Faith won big at the BRIT Awards last night, taking home a Tracie Emmin statue for Best Female Solo Artist. Backstage at the winners conference she took the time to thank her fans.
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Whilst the charts are dominated by the blandest form of electronic music, the horizons of the genre are opening up to some truly forward thinking music. Throwing Snow, (real name Ross Tones), is an...
Drum and bass producer Wilkinson has seemingly come out of nowhere with new single 'Afterglow' which has propelled the genre back onto the Radio 1 playlist - and into the UK Top Ten. Akin to the li...
After producing Emeli Sande's multi-million selling debut album, Our Version Of Events, London producer Naughty Boy has gone on to find fame of his own, taking the helm on singles 'La La La' and 'W...