Author: Kailas

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Loitered Lens : Gogol Bordello

Gogol Bordello opened a night of heady revelry as a mariachi-ready Camden stomped and writhed...

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Loitered Lens : Mariachi El Bronx

Christmas, Mariachi-style. Mariachi El Bronx, Photos...

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Suicide Girls : Interview

Beauty comes in all shapes and sizes, certainly more than three cookie-cutter formulas, and there is nothing wrong with feeling sexy and confident about your body. - Interview...

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Taylor Momsen, Acoustic [Live]

When she chooses, Momsen has the ability to convey emotion, forgivably narcissistic emotion, but emotion nonetheless....

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Stuart Semple : Anxiety Generation

The emotive focus within Semple’s work then is desire and its role in creating anxiety, largely within the intersections of sex, power, or violence. ...

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Mariachi El Bronx III

Here they’ve taken the vernacular and made something contemporary and lasting...

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Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble

This album marks the release of the band’s darkest material since Pork Soda...

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Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers [Live at the 100 Club]

Some 20 plus years into their careers Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers are STILL one of the greatest live acts on the planet...

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Cowbell : The 100 Club [Live]

Both Cowbell and their amazing music have yet to be revealed....

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Loitered Lens : Th’ Legendary Shack Shakers

The greatest showman alive is once again exorcising the demons of rock and roll from their rictus poise and commercial grave. Shack Shakers Photos...

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Dave Lombardo (Slayer, PHILM) : Interview [Part 2]

My maximum beats per minute is between 200 and 210bpm, anything past that I feel doesn’t carry any feeling....

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Raging Speedhorn : Interview

Just the fact that so many people are so into us being back is awesome! Considering we're a shitty underground band from Corby, it's pretty amazing that so many people still care....

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Max Richter : Royal Albert Hall [Live]

The final word is this was a truly historic evening for music, and Vivaldi’s reputation to wow audiences shines undimmed. ...

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Dave Lombardo (Slayer, PHILM) : Interview

There is a time in the song where the drummer should let loose a little bit but then there are times when he should let the other members shine...

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The stone cold truth (The Graveltones)

'not that our music is really ‘saying anything’, but lyrics have to have something in there that connects with people'. The Graveltones talk to Trebuchet...

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Dieter Meier [Yello] Interview

'Conceptual art is pure rationalism. If there is an opposite to that, it’s music.' ...

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The Bug : Angels and Devils

An atmospheric dub record that easily ranks amongst Kevin Martin’s best....

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Brother and Bones at the 100 Club [Live]

With a mixture of rock rebellion, huge choruses, percussion and pounding beat, there’s a lot to recommend Brother and Bones from the start....

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Mono/Poly : Golden Skies

We’re left with a sense of power and fragmented images of wonder, yet we can’t quite grasp why the component symbols were so important....

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Rich Robinson [Black Crowes] : Interview

'it’s the imperfection that makes you stand out. Neil Young can sing like Bruno Mars but no one can sing like Neil Young, and a million people can sing like Bruno Mars.' ...

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Buzz Osbourne : This Machine Kills Artists

Buzz Osbourne once again unearths past music clichés in a way that makes them feel undead and hungry....

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Brompton World Championship

The Brompton World Championship is a serious endeavour. Fun and colourful yes, but also earnest and limit pushing....

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Loitered Lens : Umphreys McGee

Photos of Umphreys McGee live at the Brooklyn Bowl...

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Umphreys McGee : Interview

I think this is when we let it all out. Don’t leave an ounce of anything that we haven’t already used. ...

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Return to the Source 21st Anniversary

Everyone swore that this was, if not the greatest rave ever, probably the best event they been to since 2001...

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Cambridge Folk Festival

Cambridge Folk Festival has a fete-like atmosphere that swells and sweats music from every pore...

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Automatic Art : Human & Machine Processes Make Art

A historical overview of computation systems, the symbolic basis of process thought....

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Wolves in the Throne Room : Celestite

One gets the sense that Wolves in the Throne Room are soundtracking the Joseph Campbell monomyth of their own lives, but rather than a Disneyesque prog version, they’re going deeper. ...

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3 Teeth [Album Review]

3 Teeth give their audiences a place to shake it out and survive. A sort of spiritual one night stand. And what is that if not the highest apex of rock and roll?...

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The Festival Burner

Now with bank apps, emails, incriminating pictures, your phone is an invitation to be blackmailed, divorced or arrested. A lost phone infinitely more so....

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