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Read more: Exclusive Interview: The Certs
Mad about ‘The Certs’ boys? You soon will be. Reading Indie Life heads to The Purple Turtle to find out more.
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Read more: Single Reviews: 18/01/2025
Many releases this week, Reading Indie Life sifts through for the good stuff on your behalf. Single of the Week: Mumford and Sons – ‘Rushmere’ Like Coldplay, Mumford and Sons seem to generate an unnecessary amount of hate to counteract the devoted love they also receive. This initial taste of…
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Read more: The Weather Station: Humanhood
The Canadian Indie outfit led by Tamara Lindeman are back with their seventh album and a mini-UK tour in March.
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Read more: Single Reviews 11/01/2025
This week’s round up features new tracks from Heartworms, Wallows and Reading favourites The Amazons. Single of the Week: The Amazons – ‘My Blood’ There is something refreshingly old-school rock about this new release from Reading’s finest band. I can definitely see it soundtracking a series of Summer sporting events…
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Read more: Lambrini Girls: Who Let The Dogs Out
It has felt a longtime coming but Brighton’s punk-rock heroes finally release their debut album.
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Read more: Ethel Cain: Perverts
‘Preacher’s Daughter’ was a stunning release in 2022. It left Ethel Cain placed as an artist you could imagine moving in a variety of different ways with equal brilliance. The possibility of mainstream pop success, rock or indie… maybe an introspective singer-songwriter. At the time ‘Ptolemaea’ and ‘August Underground’ felt…
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Read more: New Singles 03/01/2025
This week’s round up features new tracks from Little Simz and Ekkstacy. Single of the Week – Celeste: Everyday No, not one half of Daphne and Celeste gone solo (For those of you old enough to remmeber the infamous Reading Main Stage bottling of 2000!). This Celeste is fast turning…
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Read more: Reading and Leeds First Wave
The 2025 line-up is a bold statement of direction that suggests a festival looking to set trends rather than follow them. A few weeks have passed since the first wave of names dropped. There were plenty more than got a mention on Jack Saunder’s Radio One show, and, overall, this…
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Read more: My Albums of the Year 2024: Numbers 5 to 1
Here we go with the final 5, the greatest albums from an absolutely golden year of great albums.
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Read more: The Best Indie Christmas Cover Versions
Because you didn’t realise your life was missing an emo-rock version of ‘Little Drummer Boy.’
