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4 days ago | 
theguardian.com | Huw Baines
Lana Del Rey is standing in a blue-on-white summer dress in front of a wood-panelled house, crying real tears next to plastic weeping willows, momentarily overcome by the size of the audience staring back at her. This sort of tension, the push-pull between genuine vulnerability and an exploration of aesthetics, has always been there in her music, and her wonderfully ambitious first stadium tour runs on it.
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2 weeks ago | 
guitar.com | Huw Baines
Mark Speer and Laura Lee of Khruangbin with their signature Fenders. Image: FenderJune 12, 2025 June 12, 2025 When you purchase through affiliate links on Guitar.com, you may contribute to our site through commissions. Learn moreThere has always been an element of belief behind Khruangbin’s music, but it’s perhaps become more important than ever in the here and now.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Huw Baines
From the smirking spoonerism behind their name to their unruly brand of mathcore, a slashing mess of panic chords and hairpin melodic turns that sounds like Botch performing Faith No More’s Angel Dust, the Callous Daoboys are a lot to take in. But on their third album, the Atlanta sextet display newfound poise, even refinement, in songs that are at turns heavier, more ambitious and more straightforwardly pop than anything they’ve put out before.
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1 month ago | 
stereoboard.com | Huw Baines
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Where did you see your first show?
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1 month ago | 
stereoboard.com | Huw Baines |Maddy Howell
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It seems to come around sooner every year, but festival season almost upon us.
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1 month ago | 
theguardian.com | Huw Baines
A few feet above Steven Wilson’s head, the universe expands and contracts. His attention, though, is on a bank of equipment, from which he’s attempting to pull sounds that match the interstellar scope of the visuals spread across the gargantuan screen that hangs over him. Across the course of almost threehours, he does so with remarkable regularity. Cosmic … Steven Wilson at the Bristol Beacon.
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1 month ago | 
nme.com | Huw Baines
Jesse Welles looks into his phone, fiddling with it for a moment as blue skies and early spring sunshine fight to be seen over his shoulder. Once he’s settled, a green expanse comes into view behind him, the light clipping the surface of a body of water. Anyone who’s kept track of his rise to viral fame as a folk firebrand for the TikTok crowd might expect his guitar to swoop into the frame next, followed by a short, sharp song that dissects the grim realities of modern America.
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1 month ago | 
guitar.com | Huw Baines
PUP. Image: Vanessa HeinsMay 01, 2025 May 01, 2025 When you purchase through affiliate links on Guitar.com, you may contribute to our site through commissions. Learn morePUP’s music inhabits a weird space. Their songs are fun – as evidenced by shows that are famously fun, all sweat and shouting and chaos – but their songs are not about having fun.
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2 months ago | 
stereoboard.com | Huw Baines
Home > News & Reviews > Five In 2025, few would have said that the original line-up of Five would be one of the biggest arena draws around but that’s just what’s happened with the news that Abz Love, J Brown, Ritchie Neville, Scott Robinson and Sean Conlon have regrouped for their first tour together since 2001. Between October 31 and November 28 their Keep on Movin’ Tour will hit arenas in Brighton, Bournemouth, Cardiff, Nottingham, Liverpool, Manchester, Leeds, Birmingham, London,...
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2 months ago | 
guitar.com | Huw Baines
IDLES’ Lee Kiernan with a Fender Player II Modified guitar. Image: PressApril 17, 2025 April 17, 2025 When you purchase through affiliate links on Guitar.com, you may contribute to our site through commissions. Learn moreYou have probably thought about IDLES songs in a few different ways – as shoutalong anthems, certainly, and also of late as furiously loud declarations of love. But have you ever thought of them as detective stories?
