Joe Goggins

4 days ago | louderthanwar.com | Joe Goggins

The HotelierAcademy 3, Manchester28th May 2025The emo favourites’ return gathers pace as they lead a night of singalongs in Manchester. Reports of The Hotelier’s demise appear to have been greatly exaggerated. The Massachusetts outfit placed themselves at the vanguard of a scintillating new wave of emo bands during the 2010s, putting out three records that blended elements of indie rock and post-hardcore and played around with the parameters of what a modern emo band should sound like.

1 week ago | diymag.com | Joe Goggins

4 Stars Excitingly, there’s the sense that this first four-track salvo is a mere tune-up. Released: 30th May 2025 Label: Domino Daniel Avery claims that Demise of Love went into the studio for the first time “armed only with a love for each other’s work,” and it shows. This is quite the opening statement from the trio, completed by Syd Minsky-Sargeant of Working Men’s Club and James Greenwood of Ghost Culture, all singular electronic firebrands.

1 week ago | diymag.com | Joe Goggins

4 Stars The sound of him really beginning to stretch his legs as a solo artist. Released: 30th May 2025 Label: Book / Concord Of all the peculiar spectacles the pandemic provided us with, the lead singer of arguably America’s most beloved indie rock band making his solo debut at the Brudenell Social Club in Leeds last month is right up there with the strangest.

2 weeks ago | nme.com | Joe Goggins

Jack and George Barnett are proof positive that progress is a slow process – the Southend twins’ fifth record, ‘Crooked Wing’, is only their second since 2013. Their glacial rate of return becomes more understandable, though, when you consider that every record they’ve made as These New Puritans has involved a daring and wholesale reinvention.

3 weeks ago | inews.co.uk | Joe Goggins

Bruce Springsteen made his name writing torch songs that roared in support of the blue-collar American. His most revered records, from Darkness on the Edge of Town to Nebraska, are fraught with the tension of balancing his deep love for his homeland with his indignation at its inequalities.