Reviews
Heritage Music (2013)
Fantastic old school electronica on second album from College, the project of Nantes-based musician David Grellier
Secret Diary (2013)
Comfortingly predictable but brilliant debut album from College, the alias of French electro musician David Grellier
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Interviews
Rapid Results College
Interview
John Clarkson speaks to Rob Boyd, the front man with C-86 /Dunedin Sound-inspired indie pop trio Rapid Results College, about their debut album, 'In City Light'
Profiles
Is This Your Year?
Profile
Owen Peters profiles our new series 'Is This Your Year?', in which we will be following the fortunes of five different acts over the course of a year
Profile
Todd Rundgren 1
Todd Rundgren recently spent a week at Columbia College in Chicago working with its music students both at a recording session and also on preparing for a show. In the first part of a two part profile Lisa Torem sits in on the recording session...
Live
Happyness
Think Tank, Newcastle, 24/4/2017
Adrian Huggins sees London-based purveyors of college rock Happyness bring their sunshine to a rainy Newcastle
Yeasayer
King's College, London, 20/8/2008
Chris O' Toole is enthralled by Brooklyn-based experimentalists' Yeasayer's mercurial take on modern pop at a show at King's College in London
Tiny Dancers
King's College, London, 5/1/2006
Sarah Maynard at the Kings College in London watches acoustic pop act Tiny Dancers make an early claim towards being a potential stadium act of the future
Stuffy/The Fuses
King's College, London, 5/12/2006
At a show at King's College in London, Sarah Maybank enjoys the all-out assault of fuzzed-up gunfire riffs and impossible to dance to rhythms of art rockers and end of the pier humourists, Stuffy/The Fuses
Tapes 'n' Tapes
Kings College, London, 8/11/2006
Minneapolis band Tapes 'n' Tapes have drawn frequent comparisions with the the Arcade Fire, but Anthony Dhanendran finds their rowdy blues-influenced sound has more in common with the Black Keys in an impressive show at London's King College
Albums
Re : View-Thrice
The Artist in the Ambulance
In his first article for us new Pennyblackmusic writer Andy Vincent writes about the impact hardcore/punk band Thrice's album 'The Artist in the Ambulance' had on him after he unexpectedly discovered them at the start of his college's summer holidays
Features
Soundtrack of Our Lives
GodWeenSatan
In the latest in our 'Soundtrack of Our Lives' column, in which our writers reflect on the personal impact of music on their lives, Jeff Thiessen writes about discovering Ween's anarchic 'GodWeenSatan' as a college student
Photography
Photoscapes
Andrew Twambley photographs 10cc's Graham Gouldman with his acoustic Heart Full of Songs four-piece at a the Royal Northern College of Music.