Becca has a strong, more booming voice than the punk singers, at times reminiscent of PJ Harvey or Empress of Fur. Perhaps a bit of gravel or drawl would have added to the tone, but generally it was a clear, unaffected and suitably varied vocal performance. (read more)
without the progression of a story, or identification with a protagonist, the sequence of juxtaposed imagery and sound can alienate an audience and reduce the performance to circus turns (read more)
Bringing some much-needed light to London’s Black Heart next week, Kelly will play songs from both of his most recent albums: Songs of Townes Van Zandt and The Forgiven Ghost in Me. (read more)
Piano/organ builds, picked guitar melodies, crunching riffs, and a lyrical approach that constructs vivid narratives using thematic language. It’s funny, and fun, as well as being an almost perfect example of an album that’s ‘a grower’. (read more)
A new UCLA psychology study shows that people often do not recall things they have seen — or at least walked by — hundreds of times. (read more)
Alexandra Ackerman: an LA transplant with a cache of romance novel covers, film, television and stage performances under her belt. When it comes to Hollywood substance is usually traded for beauty, but Alexandra is the exception to the rule. (read more)
‘Adverse effects include sudden death, acute kidney failure, respiratory failure, gastrointestinal bleeding, bone marrow suppression’ Headsup on grapefruit/prescription drug combinations. (read more)
‘Keeping the toxic new-age cliches at bay entails a danger of entirely immersing yourself in self-conscious gloom’, Sigha manages to avoid the pitfalls. (read more)
Alt-Fest will feature five live music stages, presenting crucial Goth, Metal and Industrial acts, plus the ‘best-of-the-next’ on a newcomers stage, and the absolute ‘best-of-the-best’ on a punter voted main stage line-up. (read more)
I’ve been slowly unraveling the mazes of subtle complexities in the art world here, and one of the first events to land on Singaporean soil as I did was the Affordable Art Fair. (read more)
Young girls can dance their way to better mental health. Symptoms like depression, stress, fatigue, and headaches are alleviated with regular dancing. (read more)
Two Gallants, who hail from sunny San Francisco but take their name from a short story in Dubliners by James Joyce, lack the laid-back attitude of the former but have an abundance of the intensity (read more)
Scotch tape, a versatile household staple and a mainstay of holiday gift-wrapping, may have a new scientific application as a shape-changing “smart material.” (read more)
Why should the neighbors of the Zionist state be forced to live on their knees and give perpetual penitence because of the crimes of the anti-Semites of Europe? (read more)
Sam Willis follows up his Winterval album with a remix of ‘Hello Wendy’ by Drums Off Chaos – a percussion project featuring Can’s Jaki Liebezeit and drummer Jens Uwe Beyer. (read more)
Genre-adjectives for the four-track will congregate around the word ‘folk’, mostly because there’s a violin in there. Or a fiddle. Call it what you will. (read more)
Constellation Records’ staunchest post-rock allies Do Make Say Think open the label’s 15th anniversary celebrations with a 27th November performance of their classic second album Goodbye Enemy Airship The Landlord is Dead. (read more)
The questions here are, is Burlesque exploitative? Does it reinforce cultural and sexual attitudes that are complicit in sexual harassment or is this just a great medium of feminist expression and a means of feminists taking control of their sexuality? (read more)
Well the holidays are indeed coming and as y’all know, a homemade baked ham is a southern holiday staple. (read more)
To be an activist is to suffer defeat after defeat after defeat. Without spirituality to recharge and revive us the danger is we fall into bitterness or despair or worse, self-righteousness. (read more)
These concerts will feature brand new songs from the forthcoming ‘SPLINTER album (due in 2013), plus new versions of tracks from 2011’s DEAD SON RISING album, which are currently being worked on by the likes of Alec Empire, The Duke Spirit, Alessandro Cortini (Nine Inch Nails), Tim Burgess (The Charlatans) and Gazelle Twin. (read more)
‘A single lane road etched through this land that’s not the north, or south, that’s forgotten by the east but far from the west. If you pointed a rifle at the vast nothing that encompasses the bottom of the mid-Atlantic, we would be the pinhole in the crosshairs.’ Tour Diary, Silent Old Mountains (read more)
The recruitment of the BBC’s next Director General must be a process in which the license-payer has influence (read more)
The album upon which ‘Red Rain’, Don’t Give Up’ and the ubiquitous ‘Sledgehammer’ featured will be played in its entirety, along with a showcase of tracks spanning the artist’s career (read more)
Ben Caplan would help me get over these prejudices, or at least not think about them too much. Partly because he has a beard you could catch a badger in, but most importantly, because he’s amazing. (read more)
Big fish that have grown up in marine reserves don’t seem to know enough to avoid fishers armed with spear guns waiting outside the reserve. (read more)
‘this gig was really about the new vocalist. Nightwish are the sort of band where the songs are bigger than the singer, but their material can be challenging regardless of who is singing it. Floor (read more)
A brilliant little festival. Lots going in on, all within a stone’s throw. (read more)
‘is there any research on how unemployable an English graduate is? As it happens, yes.’ (read more)
When I play music, and connect with other musicians, I want to be transported away from the tripe the world churns up. (read more)
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