Author: Kailas

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Dawn Drums and Acid Light

Creating experience from post-consumptive detritus, Bonnacons of Doom make ritualistic music for a new wasteland. ...

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John Dee and the Empire of Angels

Recommended to those wishing for an in-depth summation of a fascinating figure and general readers who want their hair blown back by a rollicking historical tale. ...

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Kerouac Beat Painting

Kerouac Beat Painting brings us closer to the Beat legend, showing us the gifted amateur, unscripted and untutored in his search, striving against himself to find authenticity....

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Loitered Lens: Camden Rocks 2018

A selection of our favourite snaps from Camden Rocks' 2018 instalment....

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Album launched, future credit assured. The Professionals

Loud and proud, regardless of era, history, politics or provenance...

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Psychological Cravings and Heavy Beasts: Igorrr Live London.

French breakcore rocks the capital and we fall in love with Laure...

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Shamanic Falterings Amongst the Valleys of Tone

Musician Ben Frost meanders at the ICA 2017...

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Electronic Rock a Red Wedding? Bloody Beetroots (Interview)

Interview with Sir Bob of the Bloody Beetroots on the Electronic Con...

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Geometry, Dreams and Light: Stuart Forbes [Interview]

Stuart Forbes on Richard Rogers, Architecture and the Grand Process...

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Loitered Lens: The Professionals

Photos of The Professionals, unveiling new material live at Shepherd's Bush...

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‘If I was on a desert island I woudn’t make art’: Gavin Turk [Interview]

Narcissicism or Self-Portraiture: A Problem Solved?...

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The Flamin’ Groovies at Under the Bridge

1960s protopunk godfathers The Flamin’ Groovies shine through gloom in London. ...

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Dying Swans? Gira Calls Time at the Roundhouse

The raging soul beneath the dust and disaster. Swans sing their swansong....

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Slavoj Zizek and Will Self In Conversation

Two of the West's most dangerous thinkers go head to pointy head...

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Reactive, Risky, Red: Lolitics Brings Back Lefty Laughs

Left turn raw topical comedy road tested for comfort...

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Music shouldn’t be easy to listen to: Lisbon Kid (Interview)

Lisbon Kid talk sounds, scenery and saudades...

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(Other People’s) Hooks in the Millions (Olsson)

Destined to be discarded, Olsson pushes the right buttons with Millions. Just not hard enough....

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Loitered Lens: Staticland (Part Two)

Photos of Staticland at London's Camden Underworld, January 2017...

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Loitered Lens: Staticland

Photos of Staticland at London's Camden Underworld, January 2017...

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Loitered Lens: Last Great Dreamers

Viddy those droogs! Last Great Dreamers put on a horrorshow sloochattening at the Hope and Anchor. Photos...

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Winter’s Purity: New Model Army, Kentish Town Forum

Protest, Politics, Purity. New Model Army at the Kentish Town Forum...

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Loitered Lens: New Model Army

A welcome return to protest politics and riot rock at Kentish Town Forum. Photos...

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Dispatches from The Great Gathering (Killing Joke)

More a private party than a gig. At Killing Joke's Great Gathering, everyone knew the words....

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Between Noise and Silence: A Retrospective (Steven M. Miller)

A master of creating sonic tableaux as resonant as a painter's colours and forms ...

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Loitered Lens: The Lounge Kittens

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

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

Delightful subtlety and sumptuous variance - Nouvelle Vague...

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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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Fires Within Fires (Neurosis)

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

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

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

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