Loitered Lens: The Lounge Kittens

Photos from a rousing 100 Club performance by The Lounge Kittens...

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Deplorable Lives Matter : Why Sneering at Proles Doesn’t Work Either

Angry alienated American whites are not a Trump invention, and patronising them won't make them go away...

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Somewhere to Go, and a Way to Get Back: Lynn Lu and Marija Milosevska

Artists Lynn Lu and Marija Milosevska discuss their current work at Krisis, Nottingham...

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Typical Metal Gig, But Better. (Battle of the Bays, Manchester)

Warm beer, loud metal. Manchester heats up for the Battle of the Bays...

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A Refined and Technical Stitch Up: Autopsy (Coroner)

Reanimating the corpse of a tech metal troupe who should have been HUGE...

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Peacocks Wandered Aimlessly: Pagan Science (The Well)

Cosmic folk to occult choir - bringing the rock ain't always easy, but where there's The Well, there's a way...

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Between the covers: I Could Be Happy (Nouvelle Vague)

Delightful subtlety and sumptuous variance - Nouvelle Vague...

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Staring into the Eye of the Soundscape (Riverside)

Forging on after the death of guitarist Piotr Grudziński, Riverside continue to intrigue...

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I wanted to actually capture some of the sky. (Interview: Nicola Anthony)

'As a species we adapt. Many suffering, and others denying. This is a classic reaction to trauma.' ...

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Loitered Lens: Augustines

Photos from Augustines last ever London gig at the Kentish Town Forum, October 2016...

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Trump: The Handy Hillaryite Denial Buddy

Donald Trump is the arch enabler of Hillaryites' addiction to political pettifoggery...

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Kargeras Returns From The Land of the Almost Ignored (Root)

Czech dark metal act Root are a band you haven’t heard of, but should have...

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We got to drive a car and smash into things. (Red Fang, Interview)

Red Fang’s guitarist, David Sullivan, insists it's not ALL debauched Valhalla hedonism...

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Krisis, Contribution, Conversation: Talking Photography (Interview with John Clang and Sama Alshaibi)

Art - asking the early and meaningful questions society is not ready to address...

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We Are Augustines for Another Few Weeks (Augustines at the Forum)

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”I/dropcapt was some time during 2011 when I first experienced Augustines. A brief affair; I was alone, miles from home and looking for a...

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Blackened Death, Beaten Skins: Akercocke at Manchester Academy

Untramelled aggression, windmill headbanging, expensive drinks. A Sunday night with Akercocke...

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Paisley Prints and Polyrhythms: Goat (Live at The Coronet)

Witchdoctors, Crusaders, Curses. Goat bring the hudu to the Coronet...

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Mastery in Sound: Swans (Live at Islington Assembly)

A resounding farewell to a visceral lineup, Swans configure an unparalleled sonic onslaught...

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Snare Drum Love: Interview (Le Spectre)

Le Spectre's Yann Levasseur talks about simply trying to be creative and dark ...

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Everything’s Fine in the Democrat Echochamber

A new politics under Hillary? Reform of Wall Street? About as likely as Mexico paying for the TrumpWall...

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Music For the Missus? The Pale (William Control)

Tortured delvings into the 80s synthpop palette for the first of a four EP collection...

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Fires Within Fires (Neurosis)

A perfect if less mindblowing record from post-rock doomfathers Neurosis...

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The Birthday Massacre (live at the Garage, Islington)

Oozing hot goth love to the faithful: The Birthday Massacre lived up to their name and killed it...

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Loitered Lens: The Mission

And when there's darkness all around, you shine bright.... Photos of The Mission live in London...

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Consumed By Cronenberg

For the Canadian master of body horror, novel-writing is a cut too far...

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Tower of Strength: The Mission live at Shepherd’s Bush

Jingle Jangle Scarecrows. Twelve Strings of Torment and Thunder...

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Feigned Swoons beat Locker Room Bravado Every Time (US Elections)

Ignore the neo-Victorian faux umbrage of the Clinton camp and instead contemplate the corporate bloodbath HRC will helm...

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Grinds ‘n’ Grudges: Only Ghosts (Red Fang)

Grunge, grind, riffs, aggression and beautifully stupid videos. Red Fang return....

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Loitered Lens: Sturla Atlas

More than wannabe posturing, Sturla Atlas impressed with heartfelt lyrics at the Jazz Cafe...

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Into The Lesser-Charted Waters of Jazz/Prog/Ambient: Duski

Prog rock, jazz and ambient sounscapes in an impressive debut album...

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