t was during a cross-country drive from Nashville to his home city of Los Angeles that singer-songwriter Robert Francis began crafting the anthemic songs that comprise ‘The End Times, Vol. 1’
Berlin’s Pabst today release their brand-new album Deuce Ex Machina, a record packing a punch of emotionally charged, fuzzed out punk.
Dublin band Milk. have set about forging a path through which to create music for a rapidly evolving world, one in which they pride themselves on freeing the band from the confines of genre.
Today, enigmatic South London band Tiña have announced details of their much-anticipated debut album ‘Positive Mental Health Music’. Following their two standalone critically acclaimed singles ‘I Feel Fine’ and ‘Dip’, their new album will be the first ever LP to be released on tastemaker label Speedy Wunderground.
As you may know, some of us are NHS key workers and as a result we know health and well-being is so incredibly important.
Following the release of never see last month, which among other accolades saw her making Pitchfork for the first time and further radio play across 6 Music, British-Finnish artist otta returns today with the restless soul and skewed melancholy of ‘sick inside’.
On September 25th, IDLES will release their anticipated third album – ‘Ultra Mono’ – via Partisan Records.
Earlier this year Toronto’s Hannah Georgas shared a pair of singles That Emotion” and “Same Mistakes”
This song is about androgynous and transgender people who surpass conventional binary paradigms of sex.
My Beauty is a solo album from Dexys/Dexys Midnight Runners’ lead singer Kevin Rowland. Originally released in 1999 the album was mostly unfairly received by critics at the time, but in the years since has come to enjoy cult status. This reissue is the first time the album has been available on vinyl and CD with its originally intended […]
Following a breakthrough 2019 for the band, Brighton’s FUR have been studiously working since the turn of the year on a host of new material, and made the decision to record pre-pandemic with James Skelly who, as well as his own work with The Coral, has recently produced two no.1 albums for Manchester’s Blossoms.
Australian-born, London-based songwriter, producer and composer Jackson Mico Milas, who rose to prominence with indie pop outfit the HIGH HIGHS and as a composer of numerous TV and film scores including Tim Minchin’s acclaimed Sky Atlantic drama Upright, will release his debut solo EP on 7th August.
Rather than simply rolling up to the fabled crossroads of Blues lore, the Chicago-born, Nashville-based singer, songwriter, guitarist and producer JD Simo connects the missing link between Motown and Woodstock as he fuses fluid and fiery fretwork with vital and vulnerable vocals.
When Pillow Queens announced themselves in late 2019 with the soaring single Brothers, their bruising interpretation of mourning for a lost loved one immediately caught widespread attention.
Following the recent release of their BBC 6 Music playlisted single ‘Switching On’, today, Hull’s LIFE have shared a new remix of the same single by UK Top 10, Mercury Prize nominated Bristol band IDLES. The remix was premiered yesterday by NME.
Overflowing with cosmic melodies and psychedelic warmth, ‘Run’ perfectly exemplifies Chiminyo’s unique playing style.
Hifi Pig writer Ian Ringstead gives his views on the recent Copenhagen High-End Show 2019.
iFi Audio say they are pleased to announce that Miles Roberts is joining the team as Business Development Manager EMEA on 1 July 2019.
Welcome to the first of my reports from this year’s High End Munich show which took place from 9th to 12th of May at the brilliant MOC venue in Munich and featuring: TAD (Technical Audio Devices) Laboratories, Kii Audio, Technics, Octave, ATC, GATO and Emotiva, Audio Reference, Dan D’agostino, Absolute Sounds, Canton, DALI, AVM, Primare […]
Made in Italy and with an unusual aesthetic, the Mya speakers from Nime Audio certainly look the high-end part, but what do they sound like. Stuart Smith cocks an ear to these €12500 beauties.
Axpona 2019 took place at the Renaissance Schaumburg Hotel & Convention Center Schaumburg last weekend and Hifi Pig’s Ron Gruber was there for one of the days. Here we see a selection of photographs from the “biggest audio show in North America”.
Hifi Pig have been going to the High-End show in Munich now for six years. The first couple of years we attended was a bit of an adventure as we took the overnight train from Paris – even getting to Gare l’Est Paris from rural Brittany is a bit of a hike and if you […]
I was really pleased to receive a call from Italian brand Monrio a few months ago asking if we’d be interested in reviewing one of their amplifiers as I’d owned one of their preamplifiers many years ago and thoroughly enjoyed it. Here we take a listen to the company’s MC 201 integrated amp with onboard […]
John Scott is introduced to the DIMD PP10 and falls a little in love with a Latvian beauty.
At a penny shy of £1000 the Airpulse A300 are an active loudspeaker with onboard amps and DAC. Alan McIntosh puts them through their paces.
We announced this on our newsletter a couple of weeks ago but now the winner of the Nord amplifier we had to give away at the recent Bristol Hifi Show has taken a snap for us.
Costing £1000 the Blackwoods are the latest loudspeaker from Electricbeach and use an interesting driver layout. Ian Ringstead takes a listen.
Coming from a land down-under (depending on where in the world you reside), Burson makes a wide range of relatively affordable products. Here Janine Elliot takes a listen to their tiny Bang amplifier. Does it offer good bang for its $499 (£599) bucks?