I Am In Love – Call Me An Animal
I Am In Love have had a busy year and they’re treating us to even more with their new EP, Call Me An Animal.
Monograph.TV Opens for Broadcast
The Monograph is excited to announce that Monograph.TV the online video platform for Leicester music television is now live! Working in partnership with Enter the Treehouse, Monograph.TV delivers rich media direct to you our readers! Full of interviews, documentaries, exclusive sessions and music videos all from Leicester and with an iPlayer style interface, Monograph.TV broadcasts unparalleled coverage of Leicester’s heaving music scene. Already online are interviews with Young Knives, Newton Faulkner and Blood Red Shoes. Alongside this Monograph.TV showcases local starlets in the shape of Charlie and the Martyrs, Joel Owen and the Antoine Band and SuperEvolver. Also available is a ...
Issue#03 Hits the Streets!
We can’t believe it’s already 2012 and time for a new issue, Issue#03! In the spirit of expansion, we have decided to add four more pages of Leicester music goodness for your reading pleasure. Our first issue of 2012 is more exciting and packed than ever, all possible by the support from our brilliant advertisers. This issue sees interviews with Uncle Frank, Bombay Bicycle Club, Professor Green, Free Control, Some May Run, and some treats such as rare photos of Radiohead in Leicester, Biker Pubs and a chance to win tickets to see Dog is Dead! We also have the extremely exciting ...
Bear Trap – Chalk Outline
Bear Trap have kindly given The Monograph a sneak-peek at their forthcoming EP, bringing together everything a fan of Post-Hardcore yearns for: cathartic screams, overzealous distortion & overblown riffs, together with a generous dollop of electrical effects.
Silent Devices – Verb
Reviewing Silent Devices, ‘Verb’ could possibly be one of the most rewarding challenges in my eyes (or ears I should say). I was lucky enough to be filming Josh, Scott, Charlie and Alex the evening that this track was produced by Jamie Ward…
Buenos Aires – Fair Winds
What hits home on a cursory first listen to this rough gem of an EP is that Leicester post-hardcore kids Buenos Aires can really, really play. Glitchy, tightly-wound guitar and off-kilter drums patterns escalate the tension hypnotically until that next impossibly heavy breakdown, that next dissonant scream… all the while never dropping a triumphant sense of melody, of pop appeal…
Junior Fencing Club – Carousel Capsized
Leicester has a certain individual charm when it comes to ‘spiky’ Pop/Math-Rock bands. With These Furrows’ career constantly gaining speed, Herra Hidro finally releasing new material and Buenos Aires continuing to test the rhythmic abilities of their listeners, Junior Fencing Club are in good company…
By The Rivers – One Word
It’s really exciting when local lads By The Rivers have news for us, whether it’s festival appearances, local shows, radio plays or tour dates, so when they announce that they are sharing a new single, it is particularly exciting…
We’re Not Worthy – No More Mr Nice Guy
Pop punk as a genre has always been a place of merriment and fun, a part of the music community that never fails to leave beaming smile on your face…
Charlie & the Martyrs – Fodder Fights/Waylaid
Listening to Charlie and the Martyrs on a Sunday afternoon makes me want to skip through a meadow accompanied by my daisy chain headband and a lack of shoes…
These Furrows: Clarity
These Furrows have always been a bit of engima in my eyes, with more tatoos than Oslo from Keeping up Appearances and guitar straps so tight they are in danger of strangulation, one might be forgiven that it may be a case of style over substance for, the now three-piece, band…
I Am In Love: Fool Am I
It’s no secret that staff at The Monograph are split in opinion about new Leicester electronic sensation I Am In Love, but either way, they have got people talking… a lot…
Herra Hidro – High Command
Herra Hidro are one of the latest of up and coming Leicester bands who’re on the Robot Needs Home roster, and their latest EP which is due for release April the 19th is a perfect example of Leicester’s ever growing music scene…
