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Rome Wasn’t Burned In A Day: Wall Street 2011

16/10/2011

Replacing Liberal Timidity With Leftist Passion Why is it that self-termed progressives are in full retreat (and have been for decades) from the witless army of angry clowns and hack illusionists of...

Mister Heavenly – Out Of Love

12/10/2011

Ah, the supergroup. A confluence of minds, talents and ideas, or a vanity project cobbled together by egotistical musos with too much spare time? Hmm… let’s see… Asia?...

Features and Speeches of Nigeria

08/10/2011

“The matriculation ceremony really isn’t about the students,” David said, and boy, was he right. The whole thing took around 3 hours and of that their part took about two and...

Fliers for Nigeria

29/09/2011

Last Saturday I was supposed to hand out fliers for my university to students taking their JAMB tests. This is the Nigerian equivalent of SATs, and you have to take it to get into college....

Sonisphere, UK 2011: Giant Slayer Or Fish Out Of Water?

26/08/2011

This years Sonisphere Festival at Knebworth House, Hertfordshire, boasted one of the greatest line-ups I have ever seen at any British music festival. With their highly anticipated first ever visit...

The Paper Doll Militia: Aerial Theatre

15/08/2011

No Strings Attached: Nomadic performers bring aerial theatre to new heights. Aerial theatre which blends mystery, childlike wonder, technical mastery and whimsical beauty The Paper Doll Militia work...

Dalston Riot: DELS (featuring Roots Manuva) – Capsize

08/08/2011

As this review is being written, Tweetdeck's pop-up window appears repeatedly to comment on the Tottenham, now Dalston, and seemingly soon-to-be Hackney riots. The tweets range in their tone from...

The Arts of Life They Changed Into the Arts of Death

05/08/2011

As of late, Pat Robertson has been waxing apocalyptic regarding mankind's imminent reckoning with wrathful divinity… …while liberals have been sharing scary bedtime stories by the...

Matriculation and the Turning of the Soil

04/08/2011

We are having a matriculation ceremony on Thursday, and suddenly the university is a hive of activity. I swear more has been done in the last week than in the previous two months. Most if it is...

The Antlers – Burst Apart

02/08/2011

Burst Apart is the musical equivalent of a fly hitting your car windscreen while you're driving the motorway en-route to what is sure to be a great party with good mates. For a very brief moment...

Sabi/Kiyo – 71:36

01/08/2011

Sabi and Kiyo add yet more megabytes to the IDM glut. Force Intel is a sublabel of Mille Plateaux, the latter's management choosing to found a new imprint as a release platform for the music they...

Lupen Crook – Waiting for the Post-Man

31/07/2011

Dark poetry is blended with Goth folk in an attempt to produce a subtle emotive sound. However this self-infatuated and fatuous musical narrative is really just a simple and desperate plea for your...

S.C.U.M. – Electrowerkz 13th July

29/07/2011

S.C.U.M weave noise and wonder. S.C.U.M. have built something that few bands ever manage, mystery. Dazzling the UK press isn’t as easy as one imagines and in many cases is dependant on winning...

Suicide Silence – The Black Crown, London.

23/07/2011

"I don’t want to sound like a fucking dinosaur or a pig for 45 minutes and no one know what the fuck I’m saying" Trebuchet magazine interviews Mitch Lucker...

Generation Genocide: John Sinclair (MC5)/ Bermondsey Joyriders

17/07/2011

Generation Genocide: Punk doesn’t nurture it preserves! The word ‘Punk’ must retire. Dispossessed from its ancient zeitgeist it bitterly refuses to die, refuses to compromise, and continues to...

Self-image is the beginning and the end of living [Henry ‘Fonzie’ Winkler]

30/06/2011

Known to many around the globe as The Fonz from the US TV Sitcom Happy Days, Henry Winkler has struggled with dyslexia his whole life and was recently in London supporting the First News education...

Wiley – 100% Publishing

21/06/2011

'East London grime credibility or West Coast glamour, who cares? Just PICK ONE and get on with it!' ...

Plant Plants – Plant Plants EP

19/06/2011

First growth bears sweet fruit… Skimming through titles, you might suspect that ‘Plant Plants’ indicated gardening instructions for absolute beginners. Though their name is...

King Creosote and Jon Hopkins – Union Chapel

18/06/2011

Acoustic unions in an electric chapel, I beheld the evolution of folk music and it was divine. Rocking it was not. Communion. A series of flashbacks occurred as I walked down an aisle of the Highbury...

Savage Nomads, Don’t Wait Animate, White Powder Gold – Live

15/06/2011

The constant hybridisation of music is the fuel that drives innovation. The problem is that decontextualising sounds and themes from other genres can make them meaningless or seem weakly pastiche,...

Amon Tobin – Surge EP

13/06/2011

Amon Tobin simultaneously alienates and intrigues....

Ukkonen – Erriapo (EP)

10/06/2011

Erriapo's icy but intimate techno-chillout is understated, elegant, but never simple. Unhurried development: the tightrope walk of the electronic musician's art. How many bars can you...

SubMachena – Sta Luego Dub

07/06/2011

Dub maybe a niche concern but SubMachena give us enough to warrant a fresh look at the genre. Robin Taylor-Firth and Rawle Bruce may be better known as Olive (See You’re Not Alone) when they...

René, Can We Begin A Dream Collaboration Project?

03/06/2011

Human language is like a cracked kettle drum on which we beat out tunes for bears to dance to, when what we long to do is make music that will move the stars to pity. -Gustave Flaubert Descartes,...

Mental D-struction – Extrapolation of Human Perspectives

01/06/2011

Swapping guitars and drums for VSTs and sequencers, Mental D-Struction makes the tricky jump to electronica and almost pulls it off. Having high artistic ideals, and creating material which follows...

Latitude Festival – Update! New Acts and Events

31/05/2011

the welcoming daisy-adorned gates will open for the 6th edition of the magical and fantastical Latitude Festival....

Inevitable End – The Oculus

23/05/2011

One of the first words one might use to describe the second album from Sweden’s Inevitable End is schizophrenic. However this is the wrong word. For something to be called schizophrenic...

Roger Waters Revives The Wall

20/05/2011

Roger Waters’ 2011 production of The Wall takes a classic of anomie and updates it with startling and necessary results. Roger Water’s transmutation of The Wall, a personal investigation...

Supersonic Festival Announced! Oct 21-23

17/05/2011

21st – 23rd October 2011 http://www.supersonicfestival.com Limited number of early bird tickets on sale now via www.theticketsellers.co.uk Supersonic Festival, now in it's...

Caretaker of the Curious: Leyland Kirby

12/05/2011

"I think everyone should take more risks constantly, not just musicians" James Leyland Kirby (latterly known as The Caretaker) is a mysterious figure in electronic music. Respected but...

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