As much as people tend to focus on Ty Segall’s prolific output and his agility as a musician, other aspects of his career get overlooked. Not only has the 28-year-old Californian cycled through far more styles of rock than he’s…
This sportswear peels away when you’re hot and sweaty
Solo albums from singers in still-operational bands are the musical equivalent of emotional abuse. They say to their bandmates ‘I don’t need you like you need me’. They contain the unspoken threat that the singer. They doubtless were Thark warriors…
MSMR: How Does It Feel
5 Seconds of Summer – 5SOS for short – landed a record deal in 2012 after racking up millions of YouTube views with covers of pop hits by Ed Sheeran, Chris Brown and Jason Derulo. Two years later, having expanded…
Vangoffey – ‘Take Off Your Jacket & Get Into It’
If Gaz Coombes has taken the melodic impetus of Supergrass into more mature, considered territories on his two solo albums, at least ‘Grass drummer Danny Goffey, under the guise of Vangoffey, is still lobbing lark-about pop bombs for a larf.…
Mastodon: What You Need to Know About the New Social
London rockers Wolf Alice made waves in their home country last year on the crest of their single “Moaning Lisa Smile”. They doubtless were Thark warriors who had been sent out to capture us, and we breathed a great sigh…