Matt Barnes

Thursday Announce Split

Post-hardcore titans confirm the news via their website.

23rd November 2011, 9:51am

The Prodigy, Metallica, Black Sabbath Set To Headline Download 2012

It’s a trio of huge names for the rock festival next year at Donington.

17th November 2011, 6:52pm

Islands - Arm’s Way

For all the snippets of brilliance you’ll find in this record, it struggles to leave much of a lasting impression.

19th May 2008, 6:49pm

Lykke Li - Little Bit EP

She’s more in common with the earthy Camille or Feist than anyone from her motherland.

6th May 2008, 7:39pm

MGMT - Oracular Spectacular

One of the best and most unexpectedly accomplished records Brooklyn has produced in ages.

22nd January 2008, 8:28pm

LCD Soundsystem - Sound Of Silver

From the man who made guitar-fused dance music cool again in the 2000s comes a record that not only builds on 2005’s superb debut but blows it out of the water.

12th March 2007, 5:20pm

!!! (Chk Chk Chk) - Myth Takes

‘Myth Takes’ shuffles and twists like the coolest dad at the coolest wedding in the world, keeping their frenetic, funky boom-bass but slicing off any unnecessary bits.

5th March 2007, 6:14pm

It looked like it was never going to happen. A raft of underperforming singles, serial comparisons to That Other Band From Leeds, line-up problems, music industry mis-steps, and finally Duels’ album manages to wriggle free into the world.

31st July 2006, 8:31pm

Feature

To My Boy

They proudly proclaim ‘Down with miserable retroism, hurray for the beautiful machine’, which made DIY want to pump our fist in the air and shout ‘YEAHHH!’ really loudly in people’s faces.

30th May 2006, 11:25pm

Hot Chip - The Warning

While ‘Over And Over’s crunchy electro might be tearing up indie discos up and down the land, there’s a warmer, more relaxed heart to the rest of their sophomore album.

22nd May 2006, 7:36pm

Yeah Yeah Yeahs - Show Your Bones

‘Show Your Bones’ is an exhausting ride through the trials and tribulations of Second Album Syndrome, and cements their place as one of the noughties’ most exciting bands.

27th March 2006, 7:21pm

Interview

You Say Party! We Say Die!

Now it’s time for another hot Canadian band, this time from Vancouver: the fantastic punk-rockin’ dance-pop girl/boy troupe You Say Party! We Say Die!.

2nd March 2006, 8:13pm