BOSS are the haphazardly charming coalescence of ‘word-of-mouth’, brimming out from within the crevassed-chaos of a gap-toothed smile. An attention seeking bridge between the alternative-abyss of ‘6 Feet Below The Moon’ and a number of fully grounded self-releases, their latest…
Like all great artists, Adam Jones finds beauty in the mundane. And growing up in Welsh community centres and dodgy pubs there was no shortage of dreariness around for him to romanticise and collage within his subconscious. One man’s trash…
Look, it’s just a fact that some songs are decidedly pedestrian and to make up for it the artist will overcompensate when it comes to the video. Like the sad, brylcreemed strands of hair that obediently cling to the leathery…
In the eighth edition of our Artist Series, we’re delighted to collaborate with Chrissie Hynde. Having been waylaid by touring in a rock band for 40 years, Chrissie is now focused on painting. We particularly love her monogram works, one…
We’d have expected this issue to be looking back on festival highlights and waxing lyrical over new finds but no, the pandemic continues and bands are having to adapt to a new world. The write, record and tour cycle is…
The initial loss of live music hit us all hard. This huge gaping hole in our lives, an unquenchable thirst for mosh pits and pints and oh! the nationwide mourning for the festival-less summer… The weeks without gigs turned into…
Somewhere in a not-so-alternate universe, a ‘white vest and tasselled-belt’ kinda woman sits in the corner of her favoured Bodega and soaks up the New York City prospects. Passing her time offering folk newspaper cuttings instead of eyes in a…
So all you bloody rapscallions that descended upon Bournemouth beach in your hordes in the height of lockdown, was it worth it? Of course it was, we’re England! If you can’t go to Benidorm and tear it a new one…
Swans, for all their worth, are symbolically worth much more. Combining the elemental virtues of air and water, they embody beauty and sanctity despite having attitudinal issues and ugly babies. The Danes value their metaphorical inspirations, the Queen of England…