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Cockroaches, Clubs and Clocks: An Academic in Africa

04/01/2012

I have missed being here, and it is good to be back. I think I have missed the life and the people rather than the place itself though. The familiarity which has made it so easy to settle...

Trace Elements: Screamer

03/01/2012

Back in the sixties, teenage girls in their thousands would cram into concerts given by The Beatles and scream hysterically from first note to last. The songs were seldom heard. Those teens could...

Loitered Lens: Intense [Pics]

01/01/2012

UK Metal's Ronseal Band… Intense struggle against adversity and finally give the audience what they want: Drama and penicillin. Reading through the history of the band it becomes...

Idiot Wind: The Eternal Politics of the 1970s

31/12/2011

Unpopular wars drag on, gas prices erratically rise and inexplicably fall, as clouds of cynicism, dark as Richard Nixon’s perpetual five o’clock shadow, brood over the length of the U.S....

Trailer Trash Tracys: Ester

30/12/2011

Painful though it may be to recall, it was summer once. Cool drinks were sipped at pavement cafes, flesh was bared and balding scalps reddened and peeled in the light of the now-forgotten sun....

The Tyranny of Novelty

28/12/2011

We hear it over and over again (even though it is not yet precisely true): people don’t want to pay for recorded music. And what is recorded music? Music that has been thoughtfully written and...

Trace Elements: Workaholic

27/12/2011

During a party thrown to celebrate my 2nd birthday, apparently, my Grandma asked me the big question “Where’s Daddy?” I’m told my response was to point over to a framed photo...

Loitered Lens: Inmoria [Pics]

25/12/2011

Inmoria bring a new level of power and confidence to power metal. It's all in the wrist and the jaw. There is a metal tendon that joins both appendages (and in true metal the jaw is not...

“By Imbeciles Who Really Mean It”: Lost Verities and Dirty Hippies

24/12/2011

Regardless of the dissembling of corporate state propagandists, free market capitalism has always been a government subsidized, bubble-inflating, swindlers’ game, in which, psychopathic...

Candytree have consistently released album for what seems like decades. They exist as something emblematic of persistence. The Cathode Rain is startling is so far as they sound completely rejuvenated...

Astral Projection and Ableton: Mono/Poly Interview

22/12/2011

Paramatma is about the supersoul.., I got it from a Vedic scripture and it talks (about) having the omnipresent god-spirit inside of you, that it’s (Paramatma) the observer and you’re the doer. -...

Fight! An Academic in Africa

21/12/2011

I did not really understand about how he owed N20,000 to some sort of workers’ co-op on campus. ...

Trace Elements: Taboo

20/12/2011

So it’s Tuesday morning and I’m writing copy from home for a tobacco firm. What makes it worse ethically and karmically is they’re global. Plus I’ve just noticed the words...

DJ Food: The Search Engine

19/12/2011

This is the land, where nothing changes, the land of red buses & blue blooded babies, This is the place, where pensioners are raped, And the hearts are being cut, from the welfare state, Let the...

Loitered Lens: If [Pics]

18/12/2011

Who are these men? Where do they come from? How do they keep going? Shut up and pass the gasoline. A band comes together for so many reasons and after a while the purpose becomes unimportant....

Dying Empire Bebop

17/12/2011

Outside my apartment window, across a wind-blown courtyard, the crimson leaves of a white oak are falling into a swirling breeze, revealing the gnarled limbs and stark branches of the time-battered...

Peter Wyeth: Humming New Time

16/12/2011

Found sounds, field recordings, loops. Grabbing them, bringing them together and making music is only one part of the process. Creating a compelling musical narrative from the components is the...

American Classics UK [Pics]

15/12/2011

The genius of the United States is not best or most in its executives or legislatures, nor in its ambassadors or authors or colleges, or churches, or parlors, nor even in its newspapers or inventors,...

fiN: Live

15/12/2011

After touring arenas with Incubus, fiN are back 'on the circuit', in this case the intimate surroundings upstairs at north London's Garage. Energised and ferocious, they're beginning...

Riots and Rods of Iron: An Academic in Africa

14/12/2011

It is both a curse and a blessing that we don’t know what other people think of us. I am much better than I used to be, but I know that I still spend much of my time in conversation with an...

Trace Elements: Twister

13/12/2011

I’ve never been to Mumbai, but if their train journeys into work are less overcrowded than London’s, I may outsource myself soon. Plus a mutant insect flew into my mouth I guess I’d...

Islet: Illuminated People

12/12/2011

Islet's Illumiminated People is awash with the self-indulgence of a band who have little to fear from the ignominy of failure. That's the official line at any rate. Famous now for not being...

Loitered Lens: The Castells [Pics]

11/12/2011

The Castells are cool. "Wearing daft shirts and playing effortlessly, The Castells become one, effortlessly. Baby belle wax figurines, A penguin becomes a tangerine. If time...

The Degree To Which You Resist Is The Degree To Which You Are Free

10/12/2011

I've noticed a meme beginning to fester among liberal insiders who are positing that the Occupy Wall Street movement is starting to "distract" the citizenry from the wicked machinations...

Oliveray: Wonders

09/12/2011

Geezer Alert! This review contains nostalgic revisionism. The under-thirties – oh ye of predictive texting and sleepful nights unbroken by groggy visits to the loo – will be baffled by...

Panic Room: Live Review

08/12/2011

Panic Room have come a long way since their first live appearances back in 2008. The band emerged from the ashes of the first incarnation of celtic proggers Karnataka, with that band's...

Into the Unknown: Death in Vegas

07/12/2011

Death in Vegas – Your Loft my Acid After listening to a regularly reliable machine based radio show The Electronic Tonic there it was: The return of Death in Vegas. We all know what happens to...

It’s Called Viral for a Reason

06/12/2011

In the relative blink of an eye, we have culturally swallowed a crazy idea: that the capacity to grab people’s attention is more important than what is being done to grab their attention. We...

Sly and Reggie: Middle Class Dub (Vol.2)

05/12/2011

Pity the middle classes. Despised and reviled most vehemently by themselves, condemned by popular opinion to the dull political and personal flabbiness of the middle – in class, in attitude, in...

Loitered Lens: Glasvegas [Pics]

04/12/2011

Glasvegas demanded that the NME stop printing lies about them. Or did they? It’s doubtful. The soulful Scottish band have moved from heights to heights with their uplifting music and critical...

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