Month: December 2016

Documents of the Disturbed. Alva Bernadine, New Photography

A very suburban sort of smut permeates Bernadine's latest series ...

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Loitered Lens: Sleaford Mods @ The Roundhouse

Gathering momentum, Sleaford Mods roll into Camden's Roundhouse. Photos ...

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Loitered Lens: Nova Neon

Heavy alt-pop stylings at the launch of Nova Neon's debut album...

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Love in a Time of Algae: Play the Devil (Extract)

Like the ancients before us, let’s drink the wine. Smoke the stash. Paint the caves....

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Loitered Lens: The Mission, Kentish Town Forum

Wayne Hussey and the last standing Goth's Goth at the Kentish Town Forum. Photos...

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Have An Imaginative Christmas

Famine, War, Greed. We can fix this. Just add a more rigorous imagination....

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Loitered Lens: Elvana @ The Forum

The ghosts of Christmas Past (specifically, those of Elvis and Kurt) take the stage at the Forum...

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Loitered Lens: Lazuli

French medieval blacksmiths from the future Lazuli peer round the pillar at the Borderline...

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Black Swan, White Swan: Bloom Twins, Nambucca

Skinnycandy gets a dose of stream of consciousness at the appropriately Joycean Bloom Twins...

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Choose Your Ally Carefully. Why Trust the CIA?

Just because the CIA is saying what we want to hear doesn't make them credible...

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Loitered Lens: Tax the Heat

Humbuckers to warp 11 - Tax the Heat onstage at Koko...

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The riffs still come from my fingers (Tommi Holappa, Greenleaf)

Swedish semantics, Horror Lizards, and the eternal churn of stoner rock bands. Greenleaf speak....

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Two Faces, One Evil: The Bi-Party Sham of US Democracy

Clinton, Trump, Putin - Put any one of them in the White House, the rich still get richer...

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Seasonal Songwriting: I Am Snow (Heather Findlay Band)

Folky reworks from the Heather Findlay band, and a brace of new songs to add a flourish...

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Loitered Lens: Robert Glasper

Images of a bona fide musical genius at London's Koko...

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A Wedding Without a Bagpipe is Like a Funeral

Bagpiping provides a route straight to the heart of another culture....

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A Bought-Out Police State? Plus Ca Change.

The foundations of a Trump-era corporation-enabling police state were laid by Barack Obama...

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The dissonant tritone thing is very particular: Vovoid (Interview)

Vovoid's Denis 'Snake' Bélanger shares some nuggets (of wisdom) at Camden's Underworld...

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Entombed A.D. and Vovoid at Camden Underworld

Stagediving without nets. Blood and floorslime mingle at the Underworld...

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The Beauty of the In-Between: String of Subsequence

Discovering the intricate beauty of the in-between...

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Our New Smartphone Culture

Mobile music, movies and casino games will mean that the 20th century technologies must surely begin to appear more and more archaic...

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Loitered Lens: Terrorvision

Photos of Terrorvision onstage at Koko, London, November 2016...

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Clever, Inventive, Versatile… and Dull: Vozrozhdeniye (Arkona)

Accomplished and precise, Arkona's rework of Vozrozhdeniye nevertheless fails to ignite...

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RIP Micky Fitz (The Business)

A fond farewell to Micky Fitz, singer with London punk outfit The Business...

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We Are Infinite Song: Consolations of the Soul

As 2016 enters its final phase, remember: we are as much infinite song as we are earthen flesh...

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We just count on four and yell. Nico Elgstrand interview (Entombed A.D.)

Catching up with Entombed A.D.'s Nico Elgstrand for Grieg, Mozart and some yelling....

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