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Indie

November 2024

  • Royel Otis

    Guardian Australia's headline act
    ‘Sometimes it can get tiring’: how Royel Otis became indie’s next big thing

  • Faintly liturgical … Khruangbin’s Laura Lee Ochoa at Glasgow’s OVO Hydro.

    Khruangbin review – exquisite dreamy grooves get lost in the ether

  • Shed Seven, Sheffield Octagon, 2024

    Shed Seven review – enduring Britpoppers are still going for gold

  • Black Star Riders on stage at Sheffield Academy 02 in 2017

    ‘We can’t all retire because someone died’: the new bands honouring the spirit of old ones, from Talk Talk to Thin Lizzy

  • Magdalena Bay review – alien electro-pop adventure could go further

  • ‘Grief is giving me this beautiful, deepening understanding’: Phil Elverum on loss, new love and his landmarks of US indie

  • Orchestre Tout Puissant Marcel Duchamp: Ventre unique review – artful mischief

  • Du Blonde: Sniff More Gritty review – a gleefully self-sufficient affair

  • ‘You got it or you didn’t’: the sweat, smoke and sonic excess of the indie scene pre-Britpop

October 2024

  • Zach Phillips and Ma Clément of Fievel is Glauque.

    Fievel Is Glauque: Rong Weicknes review – teetering song-towers that never quite topple

  • ‘I left something of myself on the stage every time we played’ … Tom Fleming of One True Pairing.

    ‘I was playing with fire’: One True Pairing’s Tom Fleming on Wild Beasts, breakdown – and his brilliant comeback

  • Cocteau Twins Portrait Session<br>NEW YORK - JUNE 1996: Scottish alternative/ambient music band Cocteau Twins (L - R) bassist Simon Raymonde, lead vocalist Elizabeth Fraser and guitarist Robin Guthrie pose for a June 1996 potrait in New York City, New York. (Photo by Bob Berg/Getty Images)

    Book of the day
    In One Ear by Simon Raymonde review – life with the magical, mysterious Cocteau Twins

  • Tom Ogden of Blossoms at Newcastle City Hall

    Blossoms review – funky indie-pop singalongs (and a 6ft gorilla) send the crowd wild

  • Porridge Radio: Clouds in the Sky They Will Always Be There for Me review – exquisite euphoria through repetition

  • Japandroids: Fate & Alcohol review – Canadian duo’s bittersweet breakup record

  • How we made
    ‘A five-year-old could play this!’ How Razorlight made Golden Touch

  • ‘Being alive is kind of painful’: the bleak vision of noise rockers Chat Pile

  • Godspeeed You! Black Emperor: No Title As of 13 February 2024, 28,340 Dead review – powerfully brilliant

  • The Hard Quartet review – cosmically trippy joy from Stephen Malkmus supergroup

  • In 2017, Cardiff’s music scene was collapsing. What’s the secret of its amazing revival?

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