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Read more: Exploring Benefits’ Evolution in ‘Constant Noise’
The incredible new album from Benefits out March 21st.
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Read more: Single Reviews 15/03/2025
Sooooo many good tracks this week. All on the playlist, no time to discuss them all here. Single of the Week: Mark Pritchard and Thom Yorke – This Conversation Hard choices for single of the week but this collab between Radiohead and The Smile’s Thom Yorke and Warp records stallwart…
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Read more: Alffa Review: Welsh Rockers Live at The Purple Turtle March 10th.
A fine evening of free rock at the Purple Turtle! Reading Indie Life are starting to get twitchy about all these amazing free gigs at the Purple Turtle. We get to see really good bands… and we don’t have to pay anything? There must be a catch, perhaps we have…
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Read more: Exclusive Interview with the Rising Welsh Rock Duo Alffa
With two great albums already under their belts, and a stunning live presence, this young Welsh band are ready for greater things. Despite a five-year gap between their first and second albums these young talents are still in their early twenties and are heirs apparent to great rock duos like…
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Read more: Courting: Lust for Life, Or: ‘How To Thread The Needle And Come Out The Other Side To Tell The Story’
Courting return with a short but lively album. With just eight tracks on this album, three of them already released as singles and the first track being a forty-eight second intro of off-kilter violin it doesn’t leave a whole lot left to actually review here. I can’t decide if this…
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Read more: Single Reviews 08/03/2025
Great new tracks from Reading Indie Life favourites The Certs and Baby Said this week along with locals The Dazed Minded. Single of the week: SOFIA ISELLA – Josephine Sofia Isella catches the eye and the ear more with every release. This gives full on early Nick Cave and the…
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Read more: Alffa at the Purple Turtle
Another great free gig! A quality line-up tomorrow, Monday the 10th of March, at The Purple Turtle in Reading. Pluto The Rich, Alphaline and headliners Alffa bringing some seriously good heavy rock. Reading Indie Life will see you there.
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Read more: Hotwax: Hot Shock
Visiting The Face Bar in Reading on the 31st of March, dropping their debut album today the 7th of March.
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Read more: Hamilton Leithauser: This Side of the Island
The lead Singer of The Walkmen continues to turn-out fascinating and layered solo-material. ‘The Rat’ was one of those genre defining moments back in 2004 that grabbed the heads of many, seemed to be all over the radio – yet only peaked at 45 on the UK charts, showing that…
