The 1990s are back! Here's
GAY DAD
Joy!
Leisure Noise (1999)
Cliff Jones, a journalist with 'Mojo' and 'The Face', started the much-hyped band in 1996. The band finally died in 2002, but Jones continues to write about music. This was their first album (of two)
IMAGINE DRAGONS
Whatever It Takes
Evolve (2017)
And we just played these...
SKYFEVER
Americana Fame
Is This The End Of The World (2020)
The Irish alt-rockers are led by Tyson, who says of this song 'was written on the first anniversary of the death of Chris Cornell and arrived as one conscious flow of music'
CLOVERHILL
The Noise In Your Head
Catharsis (2025)
The Nelson band's Paul Laskey tells us: 'with a bit of 'The Who meets Prog' vibe, the song is about the 'would'a, could'a, should'a' that lives in all of our heads'
FEEDER
The Knock
Black / Red (2024)
The Newport (South Wales) indie-rockers roll on with their first double album. Band leader, Grant Nicholas, says the decision to release the record as a double CD was to make it 'almost like a musical production with an interval'. He also says this song is 'about a highway... of life and the journey... it can take us on'
MOTHER MOTHER
Get Up
Dance And Cry (2019)
The five-piece Vancouver-based indie-rockers are Ryan Guldemond (gtr, vcls), his sister Molly (vcls, kybds), Jasmin Parkin (vcls, kybds), Ali Siadat (drms), and Mike Young (bass). This is their seventh album