Before they shared stages with blues royalty and opened for rock legends, Jive Mother Mary were just kids with instruments, a dream, and a will strong enough to survive broken-down vans and beer-soaked bar room gigs.

The Vil Veins are the kind of power trio who exemplify the need for those three kinds of musician.

The Honeyclub make rock and roll, and they do so with a level of self-awareness that makes their sound strangely comforting.

I found talking to Lila March relaxing. thinking back on it I feel like I ought to have had psychic whiplash from it.