Japanese Voyeurs play loud and have toured with Slash, but don’t write them off as formulaic, chick-fronted hard rockers, oh no. Charlotte Richardson Andrews meets frontwoman Romily Alice to talk sex, Jung, Twitter and Swamp Thing

Japanese Voyeurs play loud and have toured with Slash, but don’t write them off as formulaic, chick-fronted hard rockers, oh no. Charlotte Richardson Andrews meets frontwoman Romily Alice to talk sex, Jung, Twitter and Swamp Thing

Active Child has taken a background in church music, a love of hip-hop and a fascination with the harp to produce an album that is mighty hard to categorise, writes Charlotte Richardson Andrews

The Jim Jones Revue have brought the soul of ‘50s rock to a new audience, and even the Americans are falling for East London’s favourite bad-asses. Alison B fires-up her Harley

Van Susans are going to be prime movers in the re-emergence of proper British guitar-based indie. Amy Lewis is expecting big things...

The Drums have avoided that ‘difficult second album’ syndrome by the simple expedient of making a second album that is much better than their first. Michael Wylie-Harris is properly impressed

The Heartbreakers were the New York band that had a better view that any other of the late ‘70s punk explosion. Now former members are touring the UK in two seperate shows that aim to pay tribute to their late bandmate Johnny Thunders. Alison B digs out her tartan bondage trousers...

Bombay Bicycle Club started young and haven’t slowed down since. Now their great third album promises to establish the north London quartet as more than just young pretenders to the indie crown, writes Michael Wylie-Harris