“It was exciting, illegal and very idealistic”: DiY Sound System on 35 years of making noise

Ahead of the pioneering free party crew’s 35th anniversary celebration, two of its founders reflect on the group’s origins, Castlemorton, and their enduring anarchic spirit.

Make Yourself Heard: How a DIY spirit opened doors for PoC in the UK music industry

Yemi Abiade reflects on how, in 2017, people of colour have shifted the momentum from the establishment and inspired change through self-created platforms

Menace Beach – Lemon Memory

Menace Beach – Lemon Memory

Jon Clark reviews the latest from Leeds DIY stalwarts, Menace Beach

New 5,000 capacity venue to open in Canada Water, London

Opening in January of 2017, a new 5,000-capacity multipurpose venue has been announced for London….

Stream Boiler Room’s documentary about Awful Records

Boiler Room have shared an in-depth documentary about Atlanta creative collective Awful Records. Directed by…

Hot Topic

Social media madness, mental health, and our environment in crisis all get shouted about in this month’s Hot Topic

Hot Topic

Saving the fjords, 90210, and female bombing squadrons – it can only be another edition of Sammy Jones talking about stuff

Soul Structure – True Love

Soul Structure slow down to explore whatever ‘true love’ is meant to be, anyway

Hot Topic

Aaaaand we did it. It’s the end of this month, and this is the third edition of this column.

Hot Topic

Begone 2015! 2016’s here now. This is the future. Weird.

Power Lunches to close

The much-loved Dalston venue will be saying goodbye with a final party next week Another…

Hot Topic

A monthly peer into the murky world of the outspoken, the sidelined, and the hard-hitting

  • 15.10.15

Bruising – Emo Friends

Sometimes it’s easier to glaze over the bad in your life with just sheer, silly fun

Trust Fund share video for Football, announce new album

Bristol band Trust Fund are back with a brand new video On 30 October Trust…

Sony force Optimo to destroy compilation sleeves

Sony served a cease and desist to the record label to protect their Now That’s What I Call Music! copyright

Joanna Gruesome

Singer Alanna McArdle has left Joanna Gruesome

The band will tour Peanut Butter with new vocalists from July Joanna Gruesome’s lead singer Alanna McArdle…

Rough Trade: British indie’s saving grace

It’s 1978 and the collective running West London’s Rough Trade record shop have launched a…

Trust Fund

Saturday night and we’ve found ourselves in a packed out (and we mean PACKED OUT)…

Trust Fund

Bristol’s Trust Fund make impossibly great DIY pop

Alex G is sharing his hidden talents

School’s out for the young bedroom artist

The name of the band is Ought

The name of the song is Today More Than Any Other Day

Hookworms conjure up mind-imploding intensity

The Leeds psych merchants are doing it on their own terms, regardless of who’s listening