Vicky Greer

Innovator. Visionary. Modern-day guitar hero. St. Vincent has earned these accolades time and time again throughout her career. Emerging in the mid-Noughties, initially as a member The Polyphonic Spree and as a touring guitarist with Sufjan Stevens, Annie Clark struck out on her own in 2006 when she started writing music as St. Vincent and released her debut album Marry Me the following year.

Since then, her musical journey has been as thrilling as it is unpredictable. Each record gives no cl...

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Of all the noisy post-punk bands to emerge from Dublin in the past five years – and there are plenty of them – Sprints quickly established themselves as the best of a fantastic bunch with a run of showstopping singles from when they emerged in 2020. Their first full-length ...

As featured on the cover of Gigwise 3: the Misfits Issue

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Let me introduce you to Bob Vylan. No, not Dylan. Vylan. The very best of grime-punk. Don’t get confused. You’ve probably seen them live already, since they spent the last year working their way up and down the country. Bobby Vylan on vocal duty, Bobbie Vylan on drums. Again, don’t get confused.

If you haven’t had the pleasure of seeing one of their game-changing live performances yet, th...

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Everyone has had a different experience of the last year and a half. While some of us sat at home, endlessly scrolling through Twitter, others were releasing a near-constant stream of new music. And by ‘others’, I mean Will Gould. After the critical acclaim and soaring success of last summer’s Sex, Death & The Infinite Void, the Creeper frontman gave some time to his latest goth-punk project Salem, with whom ...

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Few people in this world could make a song out of a packing list without coming across as a pretentious try-hard. In fact, Kim Gordon might be the only person cool enough to combine a power cord, medications and a button-down into a great lyric.
On her second solo album The...

It's not as simple as you think

On a shelf in my bedroom, I have a stack of concert tickets, now repurposed as bookmarks. The oldest is from 2016 when I saw Biffy Clyro play the SSE Arena in Belfast, formerly known as The Odyssey. It was my first ever standing gig, and according to the price printed on the bottom of the ticket, it cost me £34.50.
I haven’t actually been back to the venue since; the sound quality there is average at best. But when blink-182 announced...

Words: Vicky Greer. Pictures: Opus Kink by Callum Linklater.
For Southampton gig-goers, brand new festival Wanderlust is a dream. A whole day of hopping between our favourite grassroots venues to see the best up-and-coming names in indie and post-punk on a sunny bank holiday weekend? Nothing could be better. The inaugural festival saw 30 bands playing on stages across Heartbreakers, The 1865 and The Joiners, culminating in a riotous headline set from Shame.
The day begins at The Joiners, wher...

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Not many bands commit to a concept for more than an album campaign. Rarely do they spend a decade crafting characters, settings and interconnected narratives. But Twenty One Pilots have always been dedicated to their lore, and the story they began to tell on 2015’s Blurryfa...

In the summer of 1995, the UK's weekly music press obsessed over 'The Battle of Britpop', stoking the rivalry between Blur and Oasis as they competed for the UK's number one single spot with Country House versus Roll With It. This was deemed very important at the time, with the release date for both singles, August 14, 1995, seen as a red letter day for The British Identity.
Just one week later, however, came the emergence of a band who would present a very different take on British music, cu...

Fresh from the release of their self-produced debut album For Your Sins, Dea Matrona are in a back room upstairs at The Joiners, getting ready to play their first headline show in Southampton. Tomorrow will be their first day off in 10 days amidst a hectic tour, but tonight they’ll be bringing their old-school rock and roll to the city. I caught up with the duo, Orláith Forsythe and Mollie McGinn to talk about Ireland’s booming music scene and their journey so far, from busking on the streets...

The technical skill and musical talent of ĠENN – on show across new album unum – is indisputable, far exceeding guitar band expectations
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ĠENN – unum
Album title: unum
Artist: ĠENN
Label: Liminal Collective
Release date: 6 Oct
With their debut album unum, ĠENN have shaken off all comparisons to their post-punk and noise-rock contemporaries and established themselves as a wholly unique act with their tantalising blend of psychedelic rock, Maltese folk and jazz, all bound together by the ba...

If reading the title of this article has you ready to start a fight, then this list is not for you. This one’s for those of us who are driven mad every year by the inevitable, and utterly relentless, barrage of Mariah Carey, Wham!, Slade, Wizzard, etc, those 'feel-good' standards that end up draining every last drop of festive cheer from our souls. If you’re more than ready to retire the traditional Chrimbo classics, here are 10 modern tunes to get you in the spirit of the season – each with ...

Summer in the UK is a limbo period for local venues. Punters are off in muddy fields drinking warm beer and getting drenched, while artists are locked into exclusivity contracts with festivals that keep them from touring their regular haunts. That’s why you’ll often see a drop-off in the local listings throughout July and August.
Luckily, it looks like Southampton didn’t get the memo this year, with some huge shows set to take place this summer.
From rock legends to up-and-comers, check out w...

Release date: 19 January 2024
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Green Day have been a divisive band for the best part of their career.
From accusations of selling out in 1994 when they signed to a major label to release Dookie, to swapping it all for high-concept stadium rock in the 00s and their last decade of pop-punk offerings, they’ve had both critics and adoring fans every step of the way. On their fourteenth studio album Saviors, however, they’ve got something for everyone. Over the course of a...

From the moment they emerged into the spotlight with their incredible debut single Nothing Matters, The Last Dinner Party were clearly unlike any other band in the UK. Their songs feel more like a work of art than a piece of music, their gigs often come with dress codes lik...