Josh Holliday
Writer
Josh Holliday: passionate, deluded, fragile - and that's just scratching the surface of a relentless adoration for Manic Street Preachers. He is a sucker for slight pseudo-Socialist leanings (see The Chapman Family) juxtaposed primarily with psychedelic tendencies within Wayne Coyne's vein of stars. The great Asher Roth once stated that time isn't wasted when you're wasted so let music be the poison and the tinted specs are forever rosier.
Foals - Total Life Forever
May 2010
'Total Life Forever is their Aretha & Annie moment, their statement of intent: “Sisters are doin’ it for themselves".'
Love Is All - Two Thousand And Ten Injuries
April 2010
Josh Holliday looks at Gothenburg's latest rising superstars
Interview: Matthew and The Atlas
April 2010
Josh chats to the part-time landscape gardener from Aldershot, who also happens to make folk music and will soon be playing Green Man festival alongside The Flaming Lips and Joanna Newsom.
Laura Marling - I Speak Because I Can
April 2010
Shuffling subtly to stardom, Laura Marling moves one step closer fulfilling her potential as an indie folk goddess
The Knife - Tomorrow, In A Year
March 2010
An analysis of The Knife's latest forays into the weird, and not so wonderful, with an album loosely based on the evolutionary theories of Charles Darwin
Efterklang - Magic Chairs
March 2010
Danish pop princes Efterklang will have you spellbound after listening to Magic Chairs
Track by Track: Joanna Newsom - Have One On Me
March 2010
Josh Holliday provides a play-by-play review of the latest three-disc opus by everyone's favourite seahorse-loving harpist
New Noise: March
March 2010
This month's New Noise sees Josh Holliday introduce you to the hottest new bands including Polar Bear, Esben & The Witch, Freelance Whales, & more...
These New Puritans - Hidden
February 2010
Josh Holliday finds hidden treasure amidst the smoke and smog of the latest effort by These New Puritans
Yeasayer - Odd Blood
February 2010
'Oddly, bloody brilliant extraterrestrial tribal pop' from Brooklyn's experimental experts
Biffy Clyro - Only Revolutions
December 2009
'More puzzling than Puzzle, equally as blissful as the convoluted chaos of Vertigo of Bliss yet far brighter from the darkness of a Blackened Sky, there’s not a whole load of Revolution here.'
Interview: The Chapman Family
December 2009
A hilarious interview with Kingsley Chapman who speaks his mind about La Roux, X Factor, Robbie Williams (and more...), pulling no punches in the process.
Around Reading Festival 2009 in 20 Bands (or there abouts)
September 2009
Festival fanatic and cultured music connoisseur Josh Holliday gives us his insight and unique rating system to this year's Reading Festival.