Howler – review

Green Door Store, BrightonIt says something about alt-rock's current commercial fortunes that Howler are playing in a tiny club round the back of Brighton station. Five years ago, the hotly tipped US indie band du jour might have reasonably expected to arrive in Britain and find daytime Radio 1 and 1,000-capacity venues their playground. And yet here are the Minneapolis quintet – labouring beneath the label of "the grunge Strokes", gifted to them by Q magazine, which presumably isn't intended ...

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