This sophomore album from Manchester alt-rock outfit False Advertising is their first full-length release in six years and sees the band play with a more expansive sound, while still keeping in touch with their grungy roots. The Sorry Window is reminiscen…

Apparently it’s true – this Teesside rock band really did play the iconic Whisky a Go Go venue on the Sunset Strip, and this stonking album is the absolute proof. It features eight songs of feel-good Rock (Rock with a capital Rrrr) and it barrels along wi…

The rumours are that white male writers are becoming extinct, but the reality is that rumours of their extinction have been greatly exaggerated. Take David Szalay. White and male and privately educated and Oxbridge and, phew, a Booker Prize winner! The fu…