Mia Smith

South London post-punk pop collective Blue Bendy creates a mind-expanding sound that twists and turns at every corner.

Somehow finding time to piece together ‘Aperture’ between graduating high school in Texas and moving to college in New York, Hannah Jadagu’s debut shows her as an artist in flux, intricately joining the dots between moving spaces and growing up.

As the sun sets on the Friday of Forwards Festival, Confidence Man are singing C.O.O.L Party. “Do you wanna come to the party of the year?” frontwoman Janet Planet croons breezily. But she doesn’t need to ask – we’re already here. Forwards truly is the party of the year.

...forget festivities, the real Christmas present come early is of course list season - a chance to reflect on all the truly great music you’ve heard this year, and perhaps catch up on some gems you missed along the way too.

‘i’ve seen a way’ is Mandy, Indiana on their most adventurous sonic rampage yet.

Warming up for Self Esteem, it’s impossible for Lynks to ignore that it’s also the final night of Glastonbury. “F*ck Glastonbury!” they yell, and we cheer in agreement that we’d rather be on the harbour’s cobbles than the muddy Worthy Farm.

In our greatest feat yet, Epigram Music brings you our top 100 songs of 2021, as chosen and reviewed by our writers. We humbly present the soundtrack to another strange year (in no particular order as we don't believe in pitting great artists against each other):

Epigram catches up with theatremaker Linus Karp as he prepares to take his insanely genius 'How to Live a Jellicle Life; life lessons from the 2019 hit movie musical Cats' back on the road. We chat about making theatre in a pandemic and the queer joy of Cats.

Epigram catches up with the coolest band around in anticipation of their debut album.

One of my favourite games is guessing who’s playing a venue by their fans queuing outside. Outside SWX on Saturday night, following a sea of Cowboy boots, hats, neckerchiefs, and cowprint everything, there’s no doubt that we’re here for CMAT.

Following their triumphant sold-out show at Rough Trade, Mia Smith revisits when she met the Bristol-based trio back in September.

It’s only the beginning of February, but I already know I won’t see a better gig this year.

Sundara Karma’s third could well act as a rallying cry for 2010s indie kids; a call to fish out those checked trousers and Dr Martens.

Here, queer and overwhelmingly pink, epigram catches up with GIRLI ahead of her headline tour that kicks off at The Lanes this Sunday.