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  • Secret Set News!!!!!

    Reading 2025 Secret sets!
  • A surprise release from Fontaines DC headlines this week’s new singles. Single of the Week: Fontaines DC – It’s Amazing To Be Young Tonally this sounds like material from Romance so was probably recorded at the same time. Either way,…

    Single Reviews 22/02/2025
  • It is like all the best bits of 80s and 90s guitar music rolled up into one album. Two former members of Welsh band Joanna Gruesome formed Ex-Vöid in 2018 and a debut album followed in 2022. ‘Bigger than Before’…

    Ex-Vöid: In Love Again
  • Brighton based post-punks return with their third album. This album races out of the gates strongly with two top quality tracks. ‘Crispy Skin’ builds cleverly out of twinkly synths, piano, vocals and bass before halfway through switching gears and bringing…

    Squid: Cowards
  • These are the tracks that have been on heavy rotation on the Reading Indie Life bluetooth speaker in January.

    This Is My Jam January 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…

    Single Reviews 11/01/2025
  • The 2023 ones that got away: Honourable mentions to two 2023 albums I didn’t pick up on at the time.  I came across Lankum’s ‘False Lankum’ after it featured in a number of end of year critic picks.  I stuck…

    My Albums of the Year 2024: Numbers 35 to 31