Author: Sounds From Nowhere

The burgeoning psychedelic rock scene from Japan continues to make huge waves throughout the world, seemingly on the verge of breaking out as many of the key figures of the subgenre have become cult stars within the Anglosphere. Kikagaku Moyo are psychedelia in one of the more traditional terms, an east-meets-west mesh of fuzzy acid…

In the current sense, Father John Misty is an artist like no other. The songwriter with narcism, witt, romanticism and that slight hint of optamism, surely knows how to write an album or two, or four. Tonight, he’s returned to Liverpool in support of his fourth album God’s Favourite Customer, and he’s definitely on his…

The local madcap heroes Salt The Snail return to support their latest single “Lazer Quest”, in the best way possible, at an actual game of lazer quest. Pip Johnson reports. A gig in a Lazer Quest, as mental as it sounds and full of questions like “Will it sound good?” and “Where will the bands…

Eavesdropping in on the comments of just about everyone in earshot tonight exiting the Academy, leaves no doubt of the impact The Vryll Society are having on the city right now. With an album that will surely be showing up repeatedly in end of year mag reviews sporting the most iconic sleeve of the year…

While tribute acts aren’t a regular here on Sounds From Nowhere, at the request of writer Liam Moody, we had to have him hit the Ritz on a Saturday night to witness one of the wildest tributes out there. Elvana is a Nirvana tribute band, fronted by Elvis Presley. They formed following an incident involving…

Wandering past the extensive and impressive merch stand I have to check my watch as it sounds like the seven-piece Coral have already started. Heading to the stage I see two solitary figures creating a sound not heard since a duo since I saw The Black Keys way back in the day. A flashing mobile…

The Wedding Present have, over the space of 30-plus years, become the very definition of cult icons. Always the bridesmaids but never the brides, they emerged in the immediate aftermath of The Smiths‘ tumultuous breakup as the new frontrunners of indiepop, combining heavy-handed jangling guitars with sardonic, matter-of-fact lyrics about love and loss, all perfectly…

While Festival No. 6‘s current chapter comes to a close and the future at Portmeirion uncertain, Rebecca Worthington heads up to No. 6‘s wonderful world for one last time. For the seventh and final year, the peculiar, pastel-coloured village of Portmeirion, home of the 1967 TV Series The Prisoner, transformed into the bijou beauty that…