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Jim Stapley – 100 Club

09/10/2011

It's great to be straight, oh yeah. Leftfield journalist experiences musical ennui in the face of lauded talent. Peter Parker R&R Club are the loosest bunch of garage rock acolytes...

Oil: Edward Burtynsky’s Narrative of Society’s Fuel Source

28/09/2011

That one substance which is at once both everywhere and yet nowhere to be seen is the subject of Canadian photographer Edward Burtynsky’s most recent exhibition, entitled Oil. Through over 50...

Into the Unknown: Radiohead – Good Evening Mrs Magpie

25/09/2011

There’s one thing about dance music and that is it tends to divide people. Dance music is seen by some as a lesser ‘Techno Techno’ form of music, devoid of intellect and not up to...

Hevy festival 2011 – review

24/09/2011

Starring Dillinger Escape Plan, Architects, Funeral for a Friend, and Bouncing Souls, the third year of Hevy proves that festivals are an astounding musical democracy. Set near the Folkestone...

The Deer Tracks – The Brevity Interview

19/09/2011

Sweden’s Deer Tracks are one of those bands that are nigh-on impossible to pin down. The dynamic duo of Elin Lindfors and David Lehnberg are purveyors a magical, colourful swirl of melodies,...

Pure X – Pleasure

14/09/2011

Summer echoes… Don’t you just loathe the term shoegaze? As far as categorisations go, you can’t get much lazier than trying to sum up a band’s entire raison d’etre by...

Summon the Crows – One More For the Gallows

09/09/2011

Growling through concrete Norsk pounders test the rope. 'One More For the Gallows' is the second full-length album by the Norwegian band Summon the Crows. The album contains 10...

Winter – Into Darkness

08/09/2011

A fingernail through the cellophane, Winter lets out the night. Originally released in 1990 and widely considered to be a cult classic, Into Darkness from New York outfit Winter is now being...

Talvihorros – Descent Into Delta

07/09/2011

Hypnotic? Delta guitar driven purges by ascending maestro. The term 'hypnotic' is one that is bandied about far too often in music reviews, a kind of catch-all term for any number of...

Bong – Beyond Ancient Space

06/09/2011

Beyond Ancient Space is the most recent release from Psychedelic Minimalist Doom band Bong. Many people believe a bands name should be a reflection on their music and with Bong, you can pretty...

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 Deer Tracks- The Archer Trilogy Part 2

23/08/2011

When is Pop not pop? Swedish duo The Deer Tracks are an unusual proposition, blending hook-laden, high-gloss pop with glitchy folktronica and esoteric sonic constructions. Though crafting tunes that...

Bending Frames: The Sculpture of Henry Moore at Hatfield

12/08/2011

Anthropomorphic forms and reclining figures appear as you gaze over mazes and walk down leafy ceiling-ed pathways, wandering through different garden worlds; this weekend I went back to my...

Gunfire in the studio: Shooting film, photons & 12-bores

06/08/2011

I’m often asked, ‘What are the best bits about being an artist?’ A glance in the mirror after my day in the studio typically reveals a tired face peering out from beneath a...

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...

Purity and Purpose: Dillinger Escape Plan interview.

30/07/2011

Dillinger Escape Plan get set to rock UK audiences. For a significant number of heavy music fans there are only two bands that really mattered over the last ten years; Meshuggah and Dillinger Escape...

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...

Into the Unknown: Youth Lagoon – July

27/07/2011

Usually when I come to write this piece I put the featured song on the stereo and engross my mind in it, trying to glean every nuance and groove from the song, no need this time. I believe I’ve...

Sonar 2011: Triumph of the Hype.

25/07/2011

It's a sad if not tragic irony that a“Festival of Advanced Music and Multimedia Art” should (also) be the site of mass cultural and social regression, but the longer you spend at...

Flower fluffers: Hampton Court Flower Show

21/07/2011

Tumescent Blossoms and Dripping Petals. Photographer Rob Mann discovers the seedy side of the Hampton Court Flower Show. I am thoroughly enjoying Hampton Court Flower show, from gratuitous marketing...

Cults – Cults

29/06/2011

Christ on a bike, this takes me back a bit. The inexplicable thing is, though, it takes me back to something I’ve never experienced. Weird, no? I’m not trying to instigate a protracted...

Godflesh, D.R.I., and Goatsnake – HMV Forum

27/06/2011

Three bands, over 100 years of combined musical history, one night. Godflesh, D.R.I. and Goatsnake deliver. "Who the fuck are Goatsnake?" Screams a pot bellied Swiss chemist at the...

Morta Skuld – Through the Eyes of Death – The Early Demos

26/06/2011

Morta Skuld's demos are a time capsule to a musical history which never happened. Difficult though it is for filesharing apologists to countenance, the pre-Napster period of the 1990s was a...

Into the Unknown: Jamie XX – Far Nearer

23/06/2011

I tried to avoid it again this month, the semi big name, the rising star that everyone’s watching, but sometimes the masses are right. There’s been rumblings that he’s ripping off...

On “The Issue Of Character” And Empire

20/06/2011

Late last month, poet, musician, and self-termed "bluesologist," Gil Scott-Heron exited the hologram and returned to the source…to begin chanting, eternity will not be televised. In...

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...

Wolf People – Steeple

18/06/2011

Is originality everything? I only ask because, throughout contemporary music history, there is very little that has been created without some sort of precedent. This is not to say that the quality of...

Ducktails – live photos 31st May

17/06/2011

It's weird that photographers spend years or even a whole lifetime, trying to capture moments that added together, don't even amount to a couple of hours. – James Lalropui Keivom...

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,...

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