The 2021 Hercury Prize Shortlist
Clearly there was frenzied artistic activity between strictly-observed lockdowns this year, with the dozens of albums below as aural evidence.…
Classic LOUD WOMEN Album: Mambo Taxi – In Love With (1994)
‘In Love With’ – a few slow-burning songs aside - is an album of wall-to-wall tuneful punk bangers. I’d be…
Classic LOUD WOMEN LP: The Passions – Thirty Thousand Feet Over China
Just one of several squat-based post-punk groups to remake/remodel themselves as 80s popstars (see also Scritti Politti, Thompson Twins), The…
Classic LOUD WOMEN LP: Kate Bush – The Dreaming
In a new series, Team LOUD WOMEN revisits classic albums by British female artists/female-led bands since punk. 'British' because the…
LOUD WOMEN Hercury Music Award Nominations revealed
After pretty much the only election guaranteed to produce a good result, the democratically-decided winner of the 2020 Hercury Music…
Typical Girls Volume 5 – album review
Released right in time for lockdown, Typical Girls Volume 5 has proved – along with the Slum Of Legs album…
Belle Phoenix: interview
I don't plan what the songs will sound like, they kind of lead the way as well as the chosen…
Slum of Legs: album review and interview
Slum of Legs have just released their debut eponymous album on the Spurge Recordings label. The Brighton sextet formed and…
Kate Stapley: interview
Kris Smith catches up with Bristol singer-songwriter Kate Stapley ahead of shows in London (20 Feb) and Bristol (27 Feb).
Introducing… Kate Stapley
Kate Stapley releases her new single, a digital double ‘A’ side, today - featuring the tracks 'Hermit' and 'Hours'.