Festival Review: Knoxville’s Big Ears Festival offers a trip through a parallel reality
Big Ears Festival is a bubble – a cloistered series of moments dedicated to creation and exploration. It’s wondrous...
Live Reviews
Live Review: Jason Isbell at Cadogan Hall, London – January 26, 2024
Introducing his song “If We Were Vampires” – a love song both enhanced and weighted down by the...
We Can All Be Free: Le Guess Who? 2023 Reviewed
Beats Per Minute stumble deliriously across Utrecht's foremost experimental festival for hidden and familiar musical wonders.
10 Artists To Discover at Le Guess Who? 2023
Utrecht's Le Guess Who? Festival miraculously keeps two very particular plates spinning: its status as one of the world's most revered indoor music festivals, and its inclination to look beyond names that are oversaturated within your average lineup.
Weird On The Avenue: Left Of The Dial 2023 Reviewed
Beats Per Minute’s Jasper Willems wanders Rotterdam’s rising showcase event Left Of The Dial, which has taken a growth spurt, but still wears its grassroots sensibility proudly on its sleeve.
Live Review: Christine and the Queens at Usher Hall, Edinburgh – September 8, 2023
On a balmy Friday night at the start of September, Edinburgh has a strange presence – or rather...
Festival Review: End Of The Road – August 31 – September 3, 2023
Most if not everyone attending this year’s edition of End Of The Road festival at Larmer Tree Gardens...
Live Review: Deafheaven at Islington Assembly Hall, London – August 25, 2023
Two years on from the release of their ‘lighter’ album Infinite Granite, California black metal masters Deafheaven remain...
Live Review: Chat Pile at Tufnell Park Dome, London – August 14, 2023
Chat Pile, everyone’s favourite noise rock/sludge band from Oklahoma City, do not jump to anyone else’s beat but...
Festival Review: Lollapalooza Friday and Saturday, Chicago – August 4-5, 2023
Lollapalooza took place this past weekend at Grant Park in Chicago for its annual four days of celebration....
