As the old proverb goes, ‘it never rains, but it pours’. It refers to the tendency for difficult situations to follow each other in rapid succession or to arrive all at the same time, which can feel relentless and unjust.…
Darla Jade is one of the busiest people I know. Week on week, the 24-year-old travels up and down the country, spending her days in and out of sessions, networking, as well as showing her support for other artists, all…
Sitting down to listen to a Don’t Call Me Ishmael single feels like going out for a coffee with an old friend. Cosy and familiar is their heart-on-the-sleeve romanticism and energetic alt-pop sound as the band tease their fourth studio…
“Which one are you sleeping with?” – it’s a question that blazing Kira Mac frontwoman, Rhiannon Hill, is frankly tired of hearing. “Maybe I just sing and happen to have tits,” she shoots back. The band’s brand-new single, Scorned, takes…
When having been creating and performing music for a number of years, it’s only natural for artists to reinvent themselves to keep things interesting not just for their fans, but for themselves, too. Take Taylor Swift for example, who has…
As regular listeners have come to expect from the Stoke four-piece, Camens’ latest release ‘On the Walk from the Picturehouse’ brings narrative lyrics that immerse you into the world of cinema, with a huge hooky chorus which lends itself to…
Still on a high from a landslide victory in their Metal 2 The Masses heat, Era’s End have released their sophomore single Plead Insanity, which maintains the horror roots they established with debut Phobia last year. A bouncy riff paired…
In the film Bohemian Rhapsody, Ray Foster exclaims of the title track: “It goes on forever, six bloody minutes!” To which Freddie Mercury responds: “I pity your wife if you think six minutes is forever.” And at six minutes and…
“Lyrically, it is quite a personal song,” says Rick Hewitt, half of the indie folk duo, Johnny Nice Painter. “But I imagine a lot of people can relate to the fundamental sentiment.” The Stoke-on-Trent outfit released their third single, Demons,…
Guest review by The Underground venue manager Lee Barber The chilling, andante chords of Feverfew’s opening instantly set the scene. We are to be given a dark and powerful experience, taken on a journey through a night filled with remeniscence…
Staffordshire indie-punk outfit The Dregs have released their debut single, Dancing in The Streets of Raith, today (Friday, April 14) along with B-side The Programme. An energetic tune with plenty of drive, the quartet revel in the chaos and their…
Deep fuzzy basslines and powerful drum fills are the foundation on which Stoke-on-Trent trio Smithpools have built their latest single, In My Head. The propulsive track is heavily inspired by American rock artists – bands like Queens of the Stone…
