Interview: Will Young

There’s ever the stigma surrounding ‘manufactured’ artists with mainstream success: most of your hardcore indie kids would sell their souls to Johnny Borrel before they’d be seen dead in Woolworths clutching a chart CD. Read more

This Town Needs Guns: Interview

Slaving away (in one form or another) since 2004 creating such emo-pop genius as 26 is Dancier Than 4 and If I Sit Still… This Town Needs Guns have gone through various line-up changes before starting studio work on an album of entirely new songs with animal-themed titles in April.

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Interview: Loqui

A band of theives? Leeds based fun-time rockers Loqui just may well be. Not content with hosting auditions, the ‘borrowed’ members from other bands, and conveniently ‘forgot’ to give them back. But why not? Here is a band that know what they want - and that’s a good thing, right? They recently played triumphant, if slightly sticky-throated sets at the Leeds and Reading festivals. Confused? Read on..

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Interview: Olympus Mons

Olympus Mons is a band name you’re going to be seeing a lot of in the near future. The London spawned three piece have a perchant for mixing up jazz, indie, roots and rock, to create a sound vitally different to today’s lanscape of guitar bands. Read more

Interview: Kingsize

Kingsize are a London-based, loveable quartet of young talented hit-makers in the making. Having plunderd the archives of 60 years of the best rock ‘n’ roll music, from Elvis, The Kinks, The Clash, The Cure, to more recent acts such as the Kings Of Leon and The Strokes Read more

Interview: The Laurel Collective

The Laurel Collective are a genre-trashing 6 piece who marry the soulful vocals of Martin Sakutu with some percussion driven, rhythmic indie, wistful melodies and co-singer Bob Tollast’s skewed, darkly humorous lyrics. The band signed to Double Six Records, an offshoot of Domino, and released their single ‘Vuitton Blues’ earlier this year. Read more

Interview: [In: Audium]

As swarms of identikit faux-cockney guitar bands crop up in Hull, their members eagerly strumming away the same sub-Paddingtons-esque chord progressions, other bands from the recently premier league-inducted city are shunned the limelight. Read more

Interview: Blue Sky Project

Blue Sky Project are four young lads with a couple of instruments each and a pocket full of dreams. They’re under no delusions of Grandeu - “Fuck doing a Coldplay’ - we’re told by the band’s frontman Lewis Denby. Their 2007 ‘Fenestrae’ EP garnered praise from publications like No-Title magazine as well as Leeds Music Scene, and their forthcoming EP is, say the band themselves, a ’sharper, crisper and more streamlined’ Blue Sky Project. Read more

Interview: Wintermute

Dan Howard, David Hemmings, Chris Newbould and Ben Johnson, collectively known as Wintermute, aren’t your average indie-by-numbers guitar act. The Leeds band are swiftly becoming known for their hectic live shows, which are, in their own words, taken to a higher level of intensity Read more

Interview: The Raveonettes

Make Music Pasadena surprised us all with its impressive lineup of indie acts. Autolux, The Little Ones, and surprise guest Switches took the stage on the stiflingly hot first day of summer, but most impressive were, of course, The Raveonettes. Read more

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