With Leefest over for another year, Canary Magazine reflects on its experience of the young, grassroots festival. Perhaps the first thing you notice on entering the Highams Hill Farm site, Leefest’s home for one weekend each year, is just how small the event is. Critics of the vast and unfathomable scale of such festivals as [...]

Canary looks ahead to this weekend where they will be busy getting merry at Leefest, now in its seventh installment and bigger and better than ever. The festival is the brainchild of one Lee Denny who, back in 2006 whilst his parents were away on holiday, decided to have a party in his back garden [...]

Turning the spotlight on up-and-coming musical talent in South London. The ever-enigmatic producer, South London Ordnance is due to release a debut record next month on 2nd Drop Records. Not a great deal seems to be known about this south London-based (surprise surprise) electronic artist beyond a fleeting collection of tracks on his SoundCloud page [...]

If you do anything in the next couple of days you should pop into Peckham Space and see their current exhibition The South London Black Music Archive before it finishes this weekend. South-Londoner Barby Asante’s show aims to celebrate south London black music history whilst simultaneously preserving our thoughts and experiences of the area. The [...]

Say hello to Breton – south-east London’s mysterious and hard-to-pin-down purveyors of sight and sound. Formed in 2010, Breton are, in their own words, ‘a band that makes film and music’. From the ‘BretonLABS’ headquarters in a disused bank building in south-east London, the collective – and collective really seems the most appropriate word – [...]

The husband-wife surf-pop duo Tennis was certainly one of 2011’s more unlikely success stories. Their debut record Cape Dory, released early last year, became the focus of much critical intrigue and was recorded following an eight-month sea voyage along the east coast of the States. Upon returning home, they wrote songs reflecting on their time [...]

Returning once again to the chaotic and infinitely nuanced world of pop, Frederick Botham turns his critical eye to Madonna’s latest single, the first offering from her new album MDNA. In her latest single Madonna brazenly takes aim at the current players of mainstream music, who have crept, weed-like, up to her once unchallenged throne [...]

Relaying glimpses of the unruly fervency of recent artists such as Los Campesinos and Times New Viking, and the lo-fi sincerity of indie heavyweights like Beat Happening and even Casiotone For The Painfully Alone, Internet Forever herald a kind of British post-punk-tinged pop resurgence. The three-piece, consisting of Laura Wolf, Heartbeeps and Christopher Alcxxk, specialise [...]