Due to unforeseen circumstances, Marmozets had to cancel their Berlin and Hamburg shows. Marmozets: the story of how two sets of siblings battled against the odds to fully deserve their reputation as one of Britain’s brightest new hopes. “We’ve been together for years. We’ve sacrificed so much and we deserve this opportunity. We’re not taking it…

Red City Radio play melodic punk rock. Period. “We are werewolves,” the band says today, “and we can prove it.” This year, Red City Radio come to Europe with a bunch of new songs. They are joined by Pears from New Orleans. Their combination of hardcore riffs, pop-punk melodies and muddy Breaks comes directly from the French…

All We Are are a global gathering made up of Ireland’s Richard ‘O Flynn (drums, vocals), Norway’s Guro Gikling (bass, vocals) and Brazil’s Luis Santos (guitar, vocals), who met at university in Liverpool. Written initially in a cabin in the isolated Norwegian mountains, with follow-up sessions in a secluded cottage in North Wales, the album…

Ultraviolet light teases the shadowy songs on ENTITY, the debut album by Belgian band Oscar & The Wolf. Like a delicate push and pull. Like sunlight to vampires. Singer-songwriter Max Colombie taught himself how to be a full-blooded producer (with a little help from a certain mister Leo Abrahams, who has produced for Brian Eno,…

Like an off-label industrial process or cult ritual conducted in the dead of night, an artery flowing open in spurts or a complex society on the verge of collapse, ‘Neuroplasticity’ is both terrifying and morbidly enthralling to witness. Cold Specks has returned, two years and a world map of tours after 2012’s ‘I Predict a…

Formed in Brighton in 2004, The Kooks achieved mainstream commercial success almost immediately. Taking their name from the title of a David Bowie song, The Kooks signed to the Virgin Records label in 2005 and have not looked back since, enjoying Top 10 singles, No. 1 hit albums and a number of awards along the…

Andy Burrows, former drummer of Razorlight, released his latest album, Fall Together Again in October 2014. The album – incredibly Burrows’ tenth long player, between past solo albums and his recordings with Razorlight, We Are Scientists, Smith & Burrows, plus his BAFTA-nominated soundtrack for The Snowman and The Snowdog – will be preceded by the single…

Former emo veterans My Chemical Romance frontman Gerard Way has recently released his first solo record, Hesitant Alien. Working with producer Doug McKean, Way knew immediately what he wanted Hesitant Alien to sound like. “I wanted to make the small things sound big,” he says. “My intention was to make 100 percent uncompromised art, using…

One fairly average Madrid afternoon in March, pals Ana Garcia Perrote and Carlotta Cosials disappeared into their rehearsal studio, and stepped out clutching two of the most perfectly ramshackle pop songs you will ever hear. ‘Bamboo’ flies like an arrow to the heart: pure ’60’s pop sounds, cantering rhythm and guitars twanging with tremelo, feeling…

Flying a hardcore veteran from New York to Adelaide to produce a debut album seems like a big move. But that’s exactly what Paper Arms did. Impressed by their brand of impassioned punk rock, Gorilla Biscuits/Rivals Schools guitarist, Walter Schreifels, crossed the Pacific Ocean to mentor them through the recording of their 2010 full length,…