Hyperbole doesn't quite do Laura Marling justice. She is, record by record, cementing and reaffirming her place as the greatest female singer-songwriter of a generation.
 
Once I Was An Eagle, the trademark literary tipped name to her fourth studio album, shares and builds upon the Marling tropes that...

Match Of The Day, much like it's many contributors, is fast growing old, tired and increasingly outdated. Whilst still perhaps continuing to service the needs of the BBC defined 'everyman', the staple highlights package's decent in to the vernacular and focus on the often-dull lowest common denominator has long started...

Long overdue on the 3rd of June, Queens Of The Stone Age will finally release their sarcastically titled sixth studio album, '...Like Clockwork'. In time...

The Cloud

Apple have been pouring resources in to their 'iCloud' storage facility at a rate of knots over the past 18months; adapting both recently released hardware and software in order to fully incorporate the idea, therefore creating another limb of their much loved ecosystem. For those unfamiliar with the...

Winter isn’t all about Christmas Music; they’re a plethora of other season appropriate songs to settle down to should Wizzard and Noddy Holder be proving too much. Here’s a small selection of my favourite songs and artist that can help soundtrack winter just as well as anything with sleigh bells...

There’s that old saying that goes, “you’ve got to take the rough with the smooth” - and it couldn’t be anymore fitting than when applied to Christmas music. For every classic; there’s ten terrible records to boot. Here’s a list of ten that are best avoided, for everyone’s sakes. 

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Everybody has their own personal preferences when it comes to Christmas music; one man’s idea of a classic is another’s nails down a chalkboard. With December not far away; here’s my countdown of ten essential Christmas songs to soundtrack the perfect holiday season.

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It wasn’t easy whittling down my top 5 records of the year by any stretch of the imagination. With pragmatic approaches failing me, I took a more scientific approach; I had to listen to tracks again, check my iTunes ‘played’ counter and make mental...

Determination is something rarely discussed within the music industry; artists that possess it are often labelled as either 'hard working' or 'prolific' instead, but throughout my conversation with Lucy Rose it was her sheer determination that continually shone through. We spoke a few days before her debut...

I was told just recently that it wasn't a writer's job to be liked, but to challenge the way people think. That said, it seems that while the majority of our club's fan base have spent the best part of the start of the season pointing fingers at one another,...

I spent this mornings commute to work in the steady Yorkshire rain in a similar way that I often do; dead to the world, barely awake, and listening to the Arctic Monkeys at a tinnitus inspiring volume. Hardly an earth shattering revelation I'll grant you, but the man sat to...