Brief band history: Bedfordshire-based Loose Thread formed in the summer of `97, not reaching a full line up until `99 Loose Thread quickly became one of the best live bands in the area. After many ...

Formed in 2005, Fight Fire With Water are a math rock/post rock/something rock bag of shenanigans. They're into Physics, apparently ...

How do you set about reviewing Christmas singles? Admittedly, it's easy enough to swat at the plague of novelty songs that this time of year annually spawns. But what happens when they're flanked by ...

The Field Mice, Another Sunny Day... the list of talented and influential bands who called Sarah Records home is long and distinguished ...

This month we’re running through the 10 best girl bands of all-time because someone needed to step up to the plate and decide whether TLC are bette ...

Glastonbury. It's not billed as the greatest festival in the world for nothing. It's steeped in a history and tradition dating back to September 1970 when just 1500 people paid £1 to watch T-Rex ...

Temples are one of the hottest new bands around at the minute. Endorsed by the likes of Brett Anderson who recently invited them on tour with Suede and cited by both Johnny Marr and Noel Gallagher as ...

"I mean, I suppose people are expecting me to say, Nick Cave’s a…" Mick Harvey, sipping sparkling mineral water in one of the Cumberland Hotel’s many lounges, mumbles a word that sounds an awful lot ...

I was watching Björk play the Other Stage at Glastonbury in 2007 when the dreadlocked man in front of me took a live snake out of his backpack. “Jesus!” I said, “Is that a live snake?” The serpent ...

In our semi-regular nose around the equipment that some of our favourite bands use, Planet Gear, Gregg Kowalsky talks us through the sonic arsenal he used for new album L'Orange L'Orange.

Young American and talented is how you'd best describe Caitlin Rose, whose debut record Own Side Now is released at the end of the month. Looking deeper into the record you'd have to ask the woman ...

Last week, Music Ally published a relatively small but nonetheless notable story: Daft Punk had surpassed 100m streams on Spotify - quite a milestone for both the band and the streaming music service.