Tracklist: Lifers Too ft. The Wonder Years  Cocaine and Lexapro ft. Kevin Devine  Berlin ft. Tiger’s Jaw  Heavenhead ft. Illuminati Hotties   Californian Indie Punk Rock Band, Spanish Love Songs, released their latest EP last month; I’ve finally had the chance to catch up on it, listen to it multiple time and I’m so glad I did. The EP, released on Pure Noise Records in November, consists of 4 songs. All four of the songs are collaborations, with The Wonder Years, Kevin Devine

There are times when I begin to realise I might be getting quite old, those mornings when it’s a struggle to put on my socks, when I make a cultural reference and no-one under the age of 40 gets it, when I realise many of the people I work with weren’t born when I finished Uni but I have now realised I am getting really old because Peter Hook, one of my musical heroes, is going to perform at Manchester Academy next year to celebrate 50 years in music, how on earth did that ha

So it’s that time of year again and, after resisting it for many years, Ash have finally succumbed to the Christmas single mania, Tim Wheeler himself is no stranger to Christmas music but this is the first time Ash as a band have dipped their toes in the water. For some reason lots of brilliant artists over the years have felt the need to release Christmas singles with various degree of success and some abject failures I’ve never fully understood the appeal myself but I am a

Tracklist: Porcelain Warrior     Major Threat     Pretty Things     Secrets     Goldmine     Part Of You     You Love It When     Oblivion  February Ripe Fruit Rots and Falls Californian duo, Izzie Clark and E Scarlett Levinson, better known as chokecherry, released their debut album on the 14 th  of November via Fearless Records, 3 Songs found out about it being out and I gave it a listen, I’m really glad I did. There is no better feeling in music than discovering a great

Ash Coach Party This wasn’t my first time seeing Ash live but it was my first time at this venue and the first time I was going to get to see Ash play their new album, 'Ad Astra', which I reviewed for this site and was very impressed with. It does feel like Ash are in danger of turning into Bod Dylan from a touring perspective, this was one of multiple dates this year (including supporting the Darkness)  finishing in mid-December in Belfast, they take a brief break, then are

James have long been one of the best bands the UK have produced, their live performances are a joy to behold and they’ve had something of a renaissance over the last few years in term of the quality of their new output so it’s interesting timing that they have decided to release their definitive best of now, I hope this doesn’t mean no more new music! The problem with definitive best of records is that it always gives the die hard fans something to argue about, why isn’t thei