Category: Sound

Without music, life would be a mistake. – Friedrich Nietzsche

Loitered Lens: Présence Autochtone 2016

Visuals from Canada's festival of First Nation culture...

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Bringing in the New: Cambridge Rock Festival

Blues, classic and progressive rock at another of Cambridge's fine festivals...

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Live at Wacken 2015, 26 Years, Louder Than Hell

Stiff necks and bleeding ears at a small village in Schleswig-Holstein. ...

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Loitered Lens: Cambridge Folk Festival 2016 (Part Two)

Photographs of folk in the fens at Cambridge Folk Festival 2016...

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Soundtracking a Mulholland Ave. SolarDrive : Balthazar Getty (Interview)

SolarDrive's Balthazar Getty talks Angelino car culture, film and music...

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Valley of the Windmill (Circa)

Clean and powerful, perhaps a touch long-winded? Circa's windmill pumps out the green wattage....

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Loitered Lens: Cambridge Folk Festival 2016

Colours and curios from the UK's premier folk event - Cambridge Folk Festival, photos....

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Summer Dies Slowly: August Metal Meltdown

A summer of death, filth, junkie Olympians and the Zika virus needs an appropriate soundtrack. Metal meltdown ahoy....

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Progressive and Unifying Power: Cambridge Folk Festival 2016

Music for partying, reflection, loss, love and protest, CFF wins again....

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Loitered Lens: Deerhoof

Uncompromising in sound, eclectic in vision. Deerhoof at NOS Primavera Sound...

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Loitered Lens: Dinosaur Jnr

Preaching the raw energy and full dynamics of 90s alt-rock to a Portuguese congregation, Dinosaur Jnr, photos...

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Loitered Lens: The SoapGirls

Pink, glitter, punk, gritty. Photographs of The SoapGirls at The Dublin Castle, London. ...

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Loitered Lens: Kyary Pamyu Pamyu

Photos from the visual extravaganza that was Kyary Pamyu Pamyu at Camden's Koko in July 2016...

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SHXCXCHCXSH SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs (Yes, really)

Genuinely memorable music, if a difficult name to remember - Swedish duo SHXCXCHCXSH release SsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSsSs...

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(Clean) Flesh and Feminism. The SoapGirls (Interview)

Squeaky clean or down and dirty? You decide. The Soap Girls bare (almost) all....

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Preaching to the Choir (The Rubens, Tufnell Park Dome)

Aussie rockers The Rubens bring some antipodean glamour to the Tufnell Park Dome...

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Sludge in the Sparkplugs? (The Company Corvette)

Is Doom, Groove and Stoner metal too rich a mix for this Corvette's carburettor? Review...

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Mature, Complex, with a Lasting Finish. NOS Primavera Sound, Porto

NOS Primavera Sound leaves a lasting impression on Trebuchet's man in Portugal...

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Relentless Euphoria on Halocline Trance? (Limit EP)

An oddly sequenced release, but one that definitely has intriguing and powerful elements. Review...

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Loitered Lens: Dirty Thrills

Photos of Dirty Thrills at Islington Academy, breaking the ice for Crobot...

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Shark Cars and Metal Guitars (Interview)

Steve 'Snips' Parsons interviews Chris Spedding...

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Loitered Lens: Fields of the Nephilim (Solstice Celebration)

Bookending the first of two solstice celebrations, FIelds of the Nephilim mark the shortest night at the Forum...

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Crystal Dwarf (KOMORA A)

Mysterious, focussed, disciplined. Komora A put some backbone into ambient....

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Loitered Lens: PJ Harvey

Photos of PJ Harvey live at NOS Primavera Sound, Porto...

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Music Legal Opportunism (or Why I Own All Your Music)

Short of a buck? Why not dabble in the lucrative growth business of Music Legal Opportunism...

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Loitered Lens: Crobot

Euro-exuberant on Brexit night, Crobot light up a dim O2 Academy stage. Photos...

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Getting Under the Bonnet of Dot (Karmakanic)

Tweaking your prog rock pistons, Karnakanic release Dot. Review...

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Loitered Lens: Battles

Battles score a Warp-speed groove through the NOS Primavera faithful. Photos...

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Loitered Lens: Brian Wilson

Photos of Brian Wilson performing live at Primavera Porto...

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Riffing the Hinterlands (Tilt)

Slow burning ballads to propulsive groove rock, Hinterland is worth the long wait...

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