Even after time's arrow has twanged through 13 years and multiple Jack White projects, Fell in Love With a Girl is still a wonderful primordial stomp, its power and thrill undiminished.

In Reptilia, **Room on Fire** gets the best track of the first two albums by The Strokes thanks to its glorious sweeps in and out of bass, guitar, and the bridge into Julian Casablancas' distorted...

For all the comparisons with The Smiths, and the focus on lead singer Sonya Madan, what makes Great Things is nothing more complicated than the atypical optimism in the chorus lyric.

Like Madrid before it, Parasols is a ray of sunlight on an already sunny day, this time with the added pleasure-sensation that is the 80s power synth.

When Vampire Weekend sprung forth with their self-title debut album, they seemed to be doing all they could not to make themselves loved by millions. Sporting a polaroid from one of the band’s early gigs...

By my count Black River is the third offshoot from Doves, after Rebelski and Jimi Goodwin's solo releases in 2014. With Goodwin off doing his thing, brothers Jez and Andy Williams have not been sitting...

When it came to Britpop borrowings, no-one was quite as ballsy as Elastica's Justine Frischmann, who took the Wire back catalogue, melted it down, and reformed it using exactly the same jerky post-punk mould.

Less drug-addled than The Libertines, and in my experience (apparently) more memorable live performers, Supergrass took the spirit of Madness and ran very much amok with it.

It was the chaos at the heart of The Libertines that made them the musical embodiment of Harry Lime's speech about the Borgias and cuckoo clocks.

Superlative indie disco funkiness from Cornershop's first album after the incredible success of Brimful...

As The Rat is to The Walkmen, so Standing in the Way of Control is to Gossip. For both bands its a case of one brief, towering and instantly recognisable anthem amid a sea of...

Extreme arm-hurtiness is preventing me from typing much right now, so I’ll be brief (and no, that is not a good thing, thank you…). I don’t care if hardcore indie kids look at me funny...

Stevie Wonder's spacious drum beat might have you wondering if Superstition has enough gravitational pull to attract a room full of dancing satellites. Hang in there - all will be fine.

Coinciding with the 40th anniversary of his death, the first authorised biography of Nick Drake is to be released this November.

'Blister in the Sun has all the requisite parts: a skittish rhythm you can jerk along to, a lyric to yell, quiet bits, and even moments when the most precious air guitarists get to live...

20 more songs that wipe their feet but don't bother to take off their coat. "Won't be staying long, anyway", they say.

The 20 songs series has done long and dreamy, now it’s going to try its hand at short and spiky. All the tracks in this playlist are under two minutes long, give or take the...

'Erstwhile indie DJ favourites thanks to tracks like Morden, the question should be asked - whatever happened to Good Shoes?'

As Franz Ferdinand release an official video to Stand on the Horizon, the sleeper gem and Todd Terje collaboration from last year’s Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action, we’re heading back to their breakthrough hit....

I wasn’t that sold on Right Thoughts, Right Words, Right Action when I reviewed it last year, but along with the raw and aggressive Bullet, Stand on the Horizon was an undoubted highlight.