The Great Escape: The Island Club Interview
Modest as they are talented, Brighton’s The Island Club are turning heads with their intricate brand of melodic pop-rock. The…
URF to give away 40 years’ worth of indie records to students
University Radio Falmer (URF) will be giving away its gargantuan collection of LPs and CDs, amassed over four decades, in…
Music: What do Sussex students actually listen to?
Joe Wilson Early Monday morning, feeling lightly toasted, I took myself around campus, with my trusty Dictaphone, to try and…
The culture of computer music
By Justin Sealey September has come to an end, and with it a month in which I was exposed to…
Lacuna Coil Interview
With a promise to come back to the Brighton, Lacuna Coil’s Cristiano Mozzati sat down and talked to the Badger…
Music preview 2012
2012 has arrived and The Badger has been keeping its ear close to the ground over the past few months…
Alabama 3 interview
The Badger caught up with the Welsh charismatic frontman of Alabama 3, Rob Spragg for a quick chat following their…
They are the resurrection
The week beginning October 17th 2011 saw two new chapters appear in the bible of Mancunian music. The first –…
King of new music shines
King Charles adorned the stage at the Green Door Store on Tuesday night with what I can only describe as…
Vive La France
You’re at the University of Sussex. You’re staying in Brighton, the pop-culture capital of Europe (if not the world), the…
Sussex band makes top ten
A band from the University of Sussex have made the final ten of the Student Beans Battle of the Bands,…
Album review: Tinie Tempah – Disc-Overy (Parlophone)
Just a week after Tinie Tempah’s fourth single – ‘Written in the Stars’ – was released to the masses, devotees…
Freshers Week 2010 announced
The Students’ Union has announced a fun packed week for 2010 Freshers including Seafront Festivals, Welcome Weekend Parties, Live Music,…
Music (Brighton arts this year…)
Now that the ‘Christmas Hits’ CD has been packed safely away to gather dust for another year, it’s that time…
Getting explicit with XX Teens
If nothing else, XX Teens certainly possess an impressive knack to make one feel as though they’re single-handedly leading music…
Riotous sounds at The Prince Albert
Catapult, Cha Cha & Riot Riot @ The Prince Albert, 11th November The Prince Albert pub is one of the…
Alice Russell – Pot of Gold (Pinnacle)
As a big fan of Quantic, the Columbia based DJ and producer with whom Alice Russell has worked, I had…
Haunts – Haunts (Black)
Hailing from north London and Hertfordshire, Haunts prove that indie can grow and throw up new strands of music.
Neon Neon: electro saviours
Neon Neon’s MySpace advertises their genre as “Electro / Pop”. Accordingly, I hoped that this band were going to do…
The View are on fire
I admit it: I was a little nervous about chatting to The View. OK, maybe more than a little. After…