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Alt-Fest Organiser Dominic Void [Interview]

02/07/2014

Promising edgy art, truly creative sideshows, and oddball theatre, Alt-Fest is more than just an alternative music festival. Dominic Void explains all....

Can Analytics Drive Creativity?

25/06/2014

For some this questions appears to be the unholy marketing spawn of a top floor baking table. For others, knowledge and data have always facilitated the creative market. ...

Hearts Aren’t for Drowning (Nicole Atkins)

18/06/2014

My old label had some suggestions that I sing like Alanis Morisette! I said, 'F*ck that!' ...

Nicole Atkions, Slow Phaser, album cover

Nicole Atkins : Slow Phaser

12/06/2014

an album of vignettes that, while emotional, exhibits a diversity beyond the singer's own and thereby transcends the pitfalls of contemporary pop...

Burning Toward the Light (Lloyd Yates)

03/06/2014

Our music comes from what we like. We create our sound from what we like. Lloyd Yates...

Sleepy Sun : Corsica Studios [Live]

25/04/2014

With each album Sleepy Sun are moving further away from their garage-folk roots and further into straight ahead psych-pop. Moreover, they’re just getting better at being musicians. ...

Parcelforce : Payments, Fines, Duties and Pain

03/04/2014

It seems the issue is that some post offices, especially at busy times, aren’t careful to mention every eventually that might concern you....

Slammed : Phone Companies Stealing Your Number

28/03/2014

Telephone companies can take, replace, steal or remove your number, leaving you with few options, little recourse to complain, and in the dark as to how this can happen...

Gallon Drunk : The Soul of the Hour

25/03/2014

Gallon Drunk have never sounded so together nor so accomplished. The result of such symbiosis is seven tracks of intense mood and impressive groove. ...

A picture of Les Claypool's Duo De Twang album

Les Claypool’s Duo de Twang : Four Foot Shack

17/03/2014

There will be someone out there, bored by the usual, willing to listen to a bluegrass barn-dance inspired acoustic record that contains covers of the Bee Gees and Alice in Chains....

Tribazik : Data Warfare

26/02/2014

Pulsing bass, heavy insistent drums, chugging guitars. Despite having a lot of distorted rock trappings, Tribazik are a force of groove and emphasise the ‘one’ with the sort of dedication you...

Malcolm Leyland : Interview

14/02/2014

Taking multiple views of a scene I am attempting to recreate something more real than an isolated image, which is not how we experience things. ...

Max Richter : Memoryhouse [Live]

05/02/2014

An ambitious beautiful record that deserves a rediscovery outside of its historical parameters...

Lettuce : Ronnie Scott’s

02/02/2014

Replacing the jazz paunch with the funk punch their heavy grooves are less about flow than tight stacked combinations of counterpoint, attack and accent, all leading to a 16th bar finishing move...

A picture of Leonid Tishkov, Private Moon

Arts Catalyst : Republic of the Moon

17/01/2014

An exhibition about the moon that proposes a Manifesto should by rights fall apart in great steaming chunks of hubris, but it doesn’t, it has value and holds interest by raising lasting questions. ...

Pitch black, brutal, noisy, cinematic, psychedelic (OvO)

11/12/2013

I have to say Ronin is a big effort, but Abisso was one of biggest efforts I've ever made. There's a lot of work behind this loose sound. Ovo...

Jon Stevens & Richard Fortus [Dead Daisies]

04/12/2013

Interview with INXS and GNR Alumni Jon Stevens and Richard Fortus on their REAL band The Dead Daisies...

OvO : Abisso

29/11/2013

Abisso is not a happy place, it’s an amoral rather than immoral landscape of survival and death. It also sounds a bit like glam rock and Goblin. ...

Pelican : Forever Becoming

19/11/2013

Huge yetis pound and penis dragons as Vikings traverse heavy seas towards dimension holes guarded by bong-sucking Freudian anachronisms. Pelican deliver the music, you add the narrative....

Mutation : Error 500

15/11/2013

Containing personnel from The Wildhearts, Napalm Death and The Cardiacs, this brings together the various elements in a way that borders on magical. ...

Weekend Nachos : Still

11/11/2013

Weekend Nachos are pretty sick people, perhaps even dangerous...

Palms [Album]

06/11/2013

The emphasis on tight contrapuntal instrumentation elevates Palms as one of THE records of 2013....

A picture of The Presence LDN by Kailas Elmer

Loitered Lens : The Presence LDN

03/11/2013

Do it out in the street and they’d lock you up. Do it up on a stage and everybody gets into it. I guess that’s the weird magic of the thing – going nuts in a public place. The Presence LDN,...

A picture of the Jesu Album Every Day I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came

Jesu : Every Day I Get Closer to the Light from Which I Came

30/10/2013

Is the success of 'The Great Leveller' enough to elevate this release? More of an EP with filler than an album, so arguably not....

A picture of Imperial Teen by Kailas Elmer

We’re masochists (Imperial Teen)

22/10/2013

'We're not in a gay band, we're just in a band. On the other hand we're not NOT in a gay band, I just think 'who cares?'' Imperial Teen interview....

Anna Calvi : One Breath

07/10/2013

As with all material on this sublime record, Calvi thrashes her inspirations into unique statements....

Lydia Lunch Part 2: Allies, Enemies and Joe Rogan.

23/09/2013

If you ever stick around after one of my shows the amount of hugging that goes on is insane. I’m Mother fucking India! ...

The Meat Puppets [Live]

22/09/2013

Trippy and meandering as the hastily recorded studio version of themselves, live, the Meat Puppets just about delivered the goods musically. ...

Con-artist. I have respect for that (Lydia Lunch)

16/09/2013

I do feel that it is a calling, to be a mouthpiece for some individuals that just feel they’re screaming and no sound is coming out....

A picture of a tent at Occupy London. Protest, activism, arms, corporate, military

Occupy London at the DSEI Arms Fair

11/09/2013

Inside: a variety of meetings and conferences by delegates, discussing the proliferation of weapons, the issues surrounding a discourse of deadly peace, and the spread of gunpowder dialogue. Quicker,...

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