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Jay Plent

Jay Plent


Interview: Husky Loops

Interview: Husky Loops

Jay Plent grills Husky Loops on music, art, life, and where the three coalesce
Live review: Franz Ferdinand

Live review: Franz Ferdinand

Franz Ferdinand show no signs of slowing down in a career-spanning, electrifying live show says contributor, Jay Plent
Live Review: Mogwai at Albert Hall

Live Review: Mogwai at Albert Hall

Jay Plent recounts this fiery performance from post-rock giants Mogwai

The Voidz announce new album for 2018

Why now is the perfect time for Casablancas’ ‘other’ band to return

Record Reappraisal: Radiohead – In Rainbows

10 years on and this Radiohead album remains impressive

Album: Foo Fighters – Concrete And Gold

The world’s biggest rock band returns with a mixed bag of over-the-top material

Live: The Pigeon Detectives

The Pigeon Detectives show they can still kick ass in a sweaty, brilliant show in Manchester, writes Jay Plent

Album: Elbow – Little Fictions

Elbow dig into new, soulful territory, with mixed results, writes Jay Plent

Live: Tom Odell

Tom Odell delivered a characteristically moody, yet entertaining performance at the Apollo, writes Jay Plent

Live: Pangaea Festival – Down The Rabbit Hole

Jay Plent reports back from this year’s Pangaea Festival

EP: The Strokes – Future Present Past

The Strokes’ musical return is packed with everything fans came to love about the band

Festival Preview: Cambridge Folk Festival

As part of our Festival Preview season, we present an enchanting festival situated in one of Britain’s most famous cities

Live: Cigarettes After Sex

An intimate and captivating performance from the New York gloom-rockers

With A Little Help From My Friends: A Tribute To George Martin (1926-2016)

A reflection on the legacy of Beatles producer George Martin

Album: The 1975 – I Like It When You Sleep, For You Are So Beautiful Yet So Unaware Of It

The 1975 deliver a gluttonously self-indulgent new album

Campus Confidential: NUDE

Fun, feisty and downright funky. Student band NUDE are making ripples in Manchester’s Northern Quarter

Live: Flesh & together PANGEA

Flesh & Together Pangea give a lesson in tedium

Top 5 Anti-Valentine’s Day Songs

Alone this February 14th? Cheer yourself up with these anti-Valentine anthems

Spectre & Speculation: Where will Radiohead go next?

Jay Plent muses on what Britain’s most influential band will do next

Album: Foals – What Went Down

Having been developing their sound for a few years, nothing on this album delivers the punch that many had hoped Foals would have achieved by now