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Editors are no strangers to reinvention. Having initially burst onto the scene during the mid-00s wave of indie rock with their highly acclaimed and much-loved debut The Back Room, the Birmingham outfit didn’t take long to expand their…

I love it when an artist appears that’s so curious and “out-there” that you can’t help but feel intrigued. They lure you in, like a dumbass fish biting a hook like an idiot. That’s how I felt when Tallaght singer-songwriter Lyndsey…

What Greta Van Vleet is to Led Zeppelin, Jane in Space may be to Nine Inch Nails (NIN). Sure, both bands took a leaf (or five) from the books of their heroes, but it would be disingenuous to write them off as derivative and second-rate. In…

New Music Weekly is your one stop shop for new releases in the world of music every week. From the best of the best, to some of the rest, Mark Conroy is here to give you the lowdown on what you might have missed. This week: Taylor Swift,…

The Endless Shimmering isn’t messing about. Right from the off, Northern Irish noise-merchants And So I Watch You From Afar are determined to blast the heads off their listeners with a tougher wedge of sound than anything that appeared on…

Angelo Badalamenti’s score for Twin Peaks: The Return plays over the sound system as big clouds of fog take over the stage. The iconic NIN logo slowly fills the screens at the sides, but for those of us on the rail, we have no idea. Trent…

New Music Weekly is your one stop shop for new releases in the world of music each and every week. From the best of the best, to some of the rest, Mark Conroy is here to give you the low down on what you might have missed. This week;  …

Happyness Write In South London trio Happyness arrived onto the scene to warm reviews and critical acclaim in 2014 with their debut LP Weird Little Birthday, an album so in thrall to 90's US slacker and college rock that If you didn’t…