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Photo by Tatiana Pozuelo Formed from the remnants of Brighton’s thriving DIY music scene, alphabet are a London-based shoegaze and indie rock band built on friendship, collaboration and a shared desire to create something new. Comprised of Lena Pilshofer (vocals, bass), George Miles (drums), Tom Sullivan (guitar) and Milo Mcnulty (vocals, guitar), the four-piece first crossed paths while playing in separate bands in Brighton before eventually relocating to London, where alpha

Photo by Sadie Martin For more than three decades, Starflyer 59 has built one of the most enduring catalogues in American alternative music. Founded in Riverside, California by singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist Jason Martin, the project began in the early 1990s as a hazy outgrowth of the shoegaze movement before gradually transforming into something far broader and harder to categorise. The band’s beginnings came almost by chance. In 1993, Martin handed a demo to

Photo, and all others in this article, by Maggie Zhu On 13 February, American indie rock band Beach Fossils came down to Electric...