The first time I encountered the full might of Chrome Hoof live was at the Medieval-themed Tapestry Festival. With the lights of the Welsh steelworks off to the south, their towers belching flame into ...

On Saturday, March 21st there takes place in East London a unique meeting of musical minds. In the roof space of the Rich Mix cinema and arts centre in Bethnal Green, silver caped sonic crusaders ...

Legendary percussionist Chris Corsano and Singer/steel pedal guitarist Heather Leigh were a dizzying start to my day as Jailbreak. Without any respect for conventional time signatures or song ...

Many hours have been squandered down the decades in a largely fruitless effort to tuck every band into a tidy box, a place where it can happily gambol around with all its musically similar chums – as ...

The Elizabeth Hall is a short hop next door to the Royal Festival Hall and on this balmy Thursday evening, Ether festival 2010 sees cheerful indie rockers Zun Zun Egui play alongside 25th Century ...

It’s difficult know what to make of Chrome Hoof, in the same way that it’s difficult to know what to make of Quantum Physics, the moon, or the enduring success of Scouting For Girls. So much of what ...

Marmite and cucumber, denim and denim, Hoddle and Waddle, Liam Gallagher’s eyebrows – life is full of things that really shouldn’t go together, and yet, somehow it works. Well it’s time to add ...

They might be four bearded hipsters from Austin, Texas, but White Denim are a band who’ll appeal to the Jeremy Clarksons of this world. It’s because their music – all bluesy vocals and intricately ...

Chrome Hoof have released a few juicy snippets of information regarding their newest album, which is to be called Crush Depth. That's the first snippet, FYI. We don't know the exact release date yet, ...

It’s perhaps not a surprise to discover that Klaxons’ favourite new band are a 10-strong tribe of psychotropic monks in silver-sequinned cowls, usually accompanied onstage by a 12-foot steel ram ...

Chrome Hoof's intergalactic jazz funk (if you indeed can call it that) is something else altogether. Live, it's up another few levels again, with the band members dressed in elaborate tin-foil get-ups ...