High Voltage

It's been a good few months since the last HV zine hit the shelves, so we're delighted to present the Sept/Oct issue. The mag is packed full of features of Everything Everything, who's debut LP is out now, as well as Sky Larkin, HV all-time faves !!!, Hurts, Gold Panda and Fenech Soler.

Check out the album reviews page for coverage of impending, and essential, releases from...

Good things come to those who wait. This is certainly the case with Manchester rock trio I Am Kloot who have always been quietly gaining momentum with each release but never reaping reward for their efforts. With the combination of John Bramwell’s raw but tender vocal combining with minimal acoustic indie backing, their music is instantly timeless.

With a Mercury Prize...

Ok, I want you to stay calm, but I have to tell you something. See, I went out into the woods and there were these puppets… and they were so upset about something. They sang a bunch of really pretty, melancholy songs to try and articulate the way they were feeling, and somehow I could tell that the experience had been cathartic for them.

When I left and went home to my...

21-year-old Florrie is a multi-talented British and box-fresh new artist ready to make her own indelible impression on 2010’s wonderfully varied musical landscape. A drummer, singer, songwriter and guitarist, Florrie is the former Xenomania house-band drummer, and has now fought her way out from behind the band to take centre stage with her own music.

July 19th marked the...

Sometimes I’m reminded of why I came to Manchester. Not for the weather, but for the fucking great bands that this city occasionally produces. Here, right here, we could have the makings of another Manchester legend. Like Delphic run through a dark ambient wringer, or Johnny Greenwood playing session on a Portishead record comes the Narrows’ debut, and it is fucking ESSENTIAL. Read More +

At 19 years old Clare Maguire was whisked off to Malibu by Rick Rubin, apparently offered a million pound contract with Universal and had Jarvis Cocker, Plan B and Mike Skinner all writing songs for her. That’s how good her voice is.

After Universal landed her, it was three years of silence from Maguire but she’s back now and here to stay.

There are only two...

"Am I miserable because I listen to pop music?" Introducing: Meursault.

Anybody with their ear to the ground at the moment knows that exciting things are afoot in Edinburgh, no more so than in alternative- folksters Meursault, whose recent slot at Glastonbury was a masterclass in punching above your weight as a band. Radio regulars will have probably heard the fantastic ‘Crank...