Lily Allen Blasts Sexist Pop Culture With New Music Video

Lily Allen is no stranger to controversy and her latest video is nothing short of provocative.

The video for her new comeback single ‘Hard out here’ opens with Lily laid on a surgical bed with a conservative looking man in a suit, peering over and telling her she’s “let herself go” after having two kids.

The Mutineers: Interview with the Manchester Based Guitar Band

Manchester band, Mutineers, paid a visit to Glasgow's Pivo Pivo on Saturday 2 November as part of the UK tour for their new single, Tell Me Why.

The highly popular band played a storming set, including hits from their first album, Friends, Lover, Rivals.

New Single - 'The Occupant' by Chris Simmons

Chris Simmons is a Brighton based song writer who is quickly emerging as breakthrough artist. 

With support slots for likes of Passenger, Seth Lakeman, Jackson Browne and The Maccabees Chris is starting to turn heads wherever he plays.

Chase and Status on their 1990's inspired new album

“It's inspired by 1998 with the raves and all that shit,” says Saul Milton AKA ‘Chase’. “It's all those memories from when we were DJ's. It's why I'm sitting here now, talking to you; it's why we're doing this shit. With everything we do on the record, we've really gone back in time and remembered all of why we're here. The whole spectrum of the album is very 1990s - the album is a big step back in time.”

Saul talked candidly about the inspiration for the duo’s new record, Brand New Machine, in an interview with our journalist, Jessica Dawson. The album, which reached number 2 in the charts, features contributions from such artists as Major Lazer, Nile Rodgers and Pusha T.

Interview with Liverpool band Outfit

Liverpool band Outfit’s acclaimed album ‘Performance’ is a brooding contemplation on the subject of transformation and their experimental sound that has earned them comparisons with Portishead. We caught up with singer Andrew Hunt:

Five New Bands You Need to Know About

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Review: Haim - Days Are Gone

You can picture it now, retro enthused youths hanging around basketball courts with their flannel shirts tied firmly around their high-waisted, bleached denim shorts, feeling cool because the dramatic change in their look can only be attainable if they stand in different heighted positions, ghetto blaster placed firmly on one’s shoulder, blasting album Days are Gone from the speakers and into the airwaves. 

Top Less - The Band With the Best Album Name Ever

Top Less are a Canadian sort of pop, sort if electro band that are about to release the best named album ever “Gay Love Tekno Party”.

The Red Paintings - Wasps Video

Trash McSweeney sees colour in music. Ever since suffering a near-fatal seizure, Trash set out to share with the world a lifetime's worth of ideas about what he has seen and felt.

Through Colour to Release Double EP Series

Through Colour originally formed in Holyhead a decade ago, as the years passed by, the four friends grew tired of a lack of local opportunity and the creative confines of small town life, finally opting to up sticks and start afresh in the bustling rock scene of Manchester. Shacking up together to ensure an environment of creative focus, the band soon found that inspiration for a new direction came easier and more naturally than ever before, the big city lights acting like a proverbial ‘Eureka!’ bulb.

“When we moved up to Manchester, we all lived together, so being able to demo new ideas and sounds became much easier for us,” recalls vocalist Steve White;