Today at Urbanista we caught up with musical artist Wilroy, a local Liverpool based talent originating from Canada to talk about his new remix’s on Stephen Emmers “Home Ground”, coming out 22nd November. E: Hey Wilroy, great to catch up- let’s start by me asking where your name came about since I know that’s not […]
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How has it been recording with Iron & Wine again? Joey: It went really well. There were a few tunes that Sam Beam had written and one I had penned. Without any pre production we got together for five days just to have fun and pick up where we last left off. John Convertino suggested […]
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The Urbanista Writer’s Ledger (TUWL) is back to see out the end of 2019 with another fantastic collection of original writing. To kick start the new series we have a couple of poems from the enfants terribles of Liverpool’s literary scene, Casserole of Nonsense – the brainchild of Jack Turner and Lewy Dohren. Today we […]
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With the new greatest hits album Black Gold out now! Sarah Anderson sat down with Editors drummer Ed Lay to talk about their career, the album and the future. S: Hi Ed, How are you doing? Ed: I’m alright, you know cold, that time of year, all my kids are suffering with colds so just […]
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Pick Me Up The new single from Liverpool 7 piece Psycho Comedy kicks and rears up from the get go, galloping away towards heady echo’s of Arcade Fire evoking americana. Driving relentlessly through barnshaking pockets of 2004 amid undertones of post punk waterboys, what could be deemed repetitive ends up a strangely satisfying mini banger. […]
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A performance as magical as an actual night under the stars. I felt like I was every where that the characters were transporting us to in the story. Especially in the first sequence when they first interact in a camping trip. I actually felt like I was under the stars with them. There was something […]
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As some of the crowd started to trickle out of the Concorde 2 early, Bradford Cox called after them.“Hey you guys leaving, thanks for coming but you are about to miss the most bombastic 30 minutes of tunes weve ever played” before conferring with the band and correcting himself. “Err ok sorry actually theres about […]
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I’m used to seeing Rob Galloway fronting The Yalla Yallas. A band that delivers an incendiary live performance with Galloway spending half the set leaping around delivering his passionate, furious vocals from somewhere in the crowd. Tonight he’s solo, playing an acoustic set, tied to his guitar, standing behind a mike stand playing songs I’ve […]
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It’s 1999. Cool Britannia isn’t so cool anymore, lukewarm at best. The UK is fast running out of white male indie guitar bands to feed the Britpop machine. Creation Records, Alan McGee’s label notorious for the movement’s worst ridiculousness along with the best bits is months away from its own big sleep. And we won’t […]
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Urbanista Magazine are thrilled to bring you the premier of Liverpool alternative rock band The Jackobins brand new single Tomorrowland. Listen here: Song bio: After a two year hiatus they’re back with their NEW single “Tomorrowland” which is about all about moving past bad relationships and leaving negativity behind to push forward and show the […]
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