Glasgow alt-rockers The Wife Guys of Reddit are on the up and up, fuelled by musical experimentation and a keen sense of the absurd. Originally formed as a duo by Arion Xenos and Niamh MacPhail, The Wife Guys have since been joined by Angus Fernie on keyboards and synths and Elise Atkinson on drums. Their latest single, Pig Fat, is raucous and thoroughly enjoyable, all murky bass and scratchy riffs, with a nicely surreal, rough-edged DIY video to match.
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Meet Hembree - the sunniest, dreamiest sound to come from over The Atlantic in quite some time. The Kansas City-based indie rockers’ second album was released in February and finds the quintet pushing their established sound—first glimpsed on 2019’s debut House on Fire—to new, colourful zeniths.
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This April feels like a gateway to what (we hope) will be a long-missed summer of live music and events. Parks have been filled with more people than we remember lived in the city, and beer, football and barbecues are a thing again. Still, that doesn’t stop us wanting to cram into dark, sweaty venues to get our ears around the most exciting musical talent we could find!
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An audiophile; an individual that is deeply passionate, exacting, and even obsessed with high fidelity audio. These notoriously pedantic creatures can often be found snuffling for truffles in the darkest corners of record shops the world over, uttering phrases such as "oh that's a first pressing" and "Led Zeppelin 1! Oh, but it's not got the original purple label".
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If your room was covered wall to wall in pull out posters from the latest issue of Kerrang!, this one’s for you.
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London’s Nic Nell, better known as Casually Here, has been carving out experimental electronic soundscapes for over a decade. Described as a ‘multidisciplinary artist, composer, sound designer and record producer with a background in art and mathematics’, Casually Here has just released his second solo album, Possible Worlds, on his own Algebra label.
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Meet REX, a queer Bristol-based DJ taking the local underground dance scene and making it theirs. After completing Saffron’s Mix Nights course in late 2019, REX has not held back in quickly becoming one of Bristol's most exciting DJs, blending everything from Grime and Dubstep to UK Funky and breaks.
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Saturday, March 12 saw the inaugural CrossTalk event from Noods Levels. Created by and for young people, this full-day event at Bristol’s Arnolfini featured talks by three renowned professionals in the creative industries: musician, producer and Portishead member Geoff Barrow; photographer and videographer Ashleigh Jadee; and No Signal Radio producer Jojo Sonubi. The Everyday’s Music Section had the great pleasure of going along to hear them. Inclusive, dynamic and brimming with industry wisdom, all three talks left us inspired and enlightened.
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It’s no secret that Bristol has a buzzing arts and culture scene, whether you’re into all-night raves, contemporary art, ballet or mosh pits. So it’s fantastic news that the Gig Buddies scheme has come to Bristol via the Exchange. Gig Buddies is a program for adults with autism, learning disabilities or neurodivergences of any kind. The scheme matches volunteers and participants in a “buddy” scheme, allowing them to get out and enjoy gigs and live music at venues across the city, with the security of their buddy by their side.
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A thrum of excitement surrounding Salvation Jayne as a collective is necessary. The group create a boisterous and infectious sing-a-long racket evocative of pop-punk heavyweights Paramore, You Me At Six and even inflections of Fall Out Boy. With support from Kerrang! Radio and BBC introducing already under their belts, the five-piece are seeing their public profile set on a path to widespread acclaim.
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Lady of The House is a Bristol-based women-led collective with the mission to champion, celebrate, give voice and honour women and non-binary people in the dance music industry. Last week we joined the Lady of The House team for their inaugural Cultural Exhibition at Lost Horizon in Bristol - three days of inspiring talks, panels, masterclasses, and, of course, parties, from and for women who are passionate about the dance music industry.
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As live events start to pick up again, we’ve been getting ourselves out to gigs and enjoying the lighter evenings.
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In a world obsessed with stereotypes and genre pigeonholing, house & techno DJ, D&B DJ, broadcaster, presenter, writer and label head Charlie Tee’s no nonsense approach to music is that of any true aficionado; playing tracks that make her feel viscerally. From high energy house to gritty peak-time techno, or her more unhinged side rinsing some D&B and jungle, you’re always in for a ride.
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I’m sure we’ve all heard someone say “music saved my life” at some point, and whilst it might sound like something of a cliché it is actually true. Music has several positive effects on our mental wellbeing; helping to alleviate stress, enhance memory, stimulate emotion and soothe the soul.
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We know, it’s been a painfully slow start to the year. We also know that we’ve had to be boring and step away from shows for a short stretch (not our choice, blame the government). We are, however, BACK, and ready to contact you once again from the front lines of live music.
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If you haven’t come across Hen Ogledd yet but love the sound of wonky, folkloric, political, fluoro-pagan electro-pop you’re just going to love them, believe us. Following their latest release No Wood Accepted and their tour in December culture editor Kerry Mead caught up with them to talk about how they make music together, reclaiming the vocoder, and aural time-travelling.
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Soulful and intricate, yet aggressive and pulsating, Rarelyalways is an artist whose genre-straddling has seen him embark on a meteoric rise from the streets of Hackney to collaborating with renowned fusion musician Hanni El-Khatib. Music editor Emma Doyle was caught up to speed on most-recently released ‘Manic’ EP, and what’s in store for the future.
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When I fell in love with my spouse over ten years ago, despite already knowing I was polyamourous, I didn’t expect to fall in love that hard again.
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I won’t bore you with the gory details of my ‘un-love’ life, suffice it to say that the pattern of falling for boys, uniformed or otherwise, continued into my teens…I had unrequited love down like a pro and could have written a book or vlogged about it if the internet had been invented.
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