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Easy on the whiskey now! Cockadoodledon’t (Vinyl re-release)

06/08/2015

Listening to Th' Legendary Shack Shakers feels like swillin' liquor in a Kentucky barn which, if you're very lucky, you aren't sharing with the hogs....

Nordic Techno goes IKEA. Laiva T#16

04/08/2015

A moment of head-down eyes-closed dancefloor reverie is captured perfectly....

Loitered Lens : Reverend Horton Heat

01/08/2015

Preaching to the converted, as ever the Reverend gave the assembled beer holders a most satisfying selection showing that, unlike other clergy, he hasn’t lost his power to touch his congregation...

The Homely Path through Chaotic Woods (Nostos)

31/07/2015

A collection of musical pieces which disturb, wrongfoot, disorient and occasionally attack the listener, whilst still being peppered with the ghost of expected song structures ...

Thundering Underdogs and Bubblegum Cool (Skyforger Interview)

28/07/2015

When we write our songs, we don’t really care if the riff is heavy metal, thrash or death or black metal or whatever, we just care if it sounds good. Skyforger interview...

Loitered Lens: Misterwives

26/07/2015

Pinned between the pre pubescent girls, horny dads and the PA system, Carl Byron Batson frames Misterwives at Islington O2...

Monthly Metal and Melancholy Menace : Cradle of Filth, Orchid….

23/07/2015

This is probably Cradle of Filth 's best album in a while, being neither immediately accessible (and so disposable) or opaquely impenetrable (and so rubbish)....

The Black Guy in the Middle: Skindred’s Benji Webbe

21/07/2015

‘Look, humour me, just try it. Do some dancehall stuff on top of the punk we do’. Next thing you know we’re called Dub War and we've got a record deal. - Benji Webb...

Loitered Lens : Primus live at Brixton Academy

19/07/2015

Primus wanted to remind you that they’ve always been a band looking forward, reminding us that the old stuff was just that....

Crank Thy Humbuckers – Ratatat Release Magnifique

17/07/2015

Mahoosive dynamics, the customary duelling guitar chops, and surf drums pulling everything together. Air guitar and dancefloor screwface, in one handy pack. Cribbens!...

Reverend Horton Heat, Islington Academy.

16/07/2015

During a dusty warm front in old London town, Reverend Horton Heat and his punkabilly ensemble took to the stage at Islington Academy...

Coma Ecliptic : a Progressive Metal Monster

15/07/2015

There is more than one number that feels as though it contains a whole concept album's worth of music in seven or eight minutes....

Bass, Beats, Bumps and Bees. (Peru Boom)

14/07/2015

Bass, bleeps, beats and bumps from Peru's underground dance scene. What's that doing here, and can it revive a flagging bee found comotose in the reviewer's garden? Peru Boom 2015...

Loitered Lens : Magenta

12/07/2015

Magenta play dense and complex music with a heavy and unapologetic influence of 70s Yes. ...

Sweet dreams: Primus ’ Wonka ends on a winsome note.

11/07/2015

Backed by mesmerising animations of an elephant bouncing on a trampoline, no one can deny that Primus put on a great show...

Boys on parade (Beasts)

09/07/2015

It’s an unspoken thing really, whether we play to five people or a thousand, it just comes out naturally. As soon as we start playing it just happens for us....

No Ruinporn Here. Altstadt Echo Modern Cathedrals pt. 1 & 2

07/07/2015

Modern Cathedrals label founder Altstadt Echo steers between these two seductive poles, resisting the temptation to sonically contribute to the proliferation of Detroitian ruinporn ...

Loitered Lens : The Movielife

06/07/2015

Proving time hasn’t dampened the punk rock spirit or the sheer energy of The Movielife....

Rills, fills and dirty drum machines. Unravel (Bendejo)

05/07/2015

Owes as much to the mechanics of dub as to the sequencing of techno, with dub's technique of using a looped passage to overwrite the 4/4 time structure driving the low-end beats....

Let’s carry on from where we left off (The Movielife)

03/07/2015

For a band who most thought would never reunite (including the band themselves) this return to the stage was grasped with relish....

Loitered Lens: LTNT in the Studio

29/06/2015

Where formerly fantastic musicians suddenly clam up when faced with the prospect of ‘being recorded’, not so with LTNT...

Sex, fireflies and audiotape: ‘Anima’ purrs (Francesca Belmonte)

25/06/2015

The moon is apparently moving away from us by four centimetres every year, Francesca Belmonte may just have thrown a lasso and dragged it back towards us a fraction...

The Blues Needs a National Presence

24/06/2015

The UK blues world has some stupendous talent that should be playing both nationally and internationally...

Shambolic youth and vigour (LTNT)

23/06/2015

We’re recording. Carefree and silly, it's going be hard to get a serious question past them. LTNT Camden Rocks interview...

Make Better Music 74 : Collaboration

22/06/2015

The ability to listen, appreciate, evaluate and contribute towards a fellow-musician’s creativity is a high order skill and the rewards often completely justify the effort....

Loitered Lens : Tav Falco at Oslo, Hackney

21/06/2015

Lithe and lean, Tav Falco plays up to the calls, draws the crowd in deeper and deeper....

Foot-stomping hip-swivelling rockabilly country-blues (Tav Falco)

18/06/2015

This crowd love Falco and Falco loves them back. He poses and postures, treats the audience to some fancy tango moves, and writhes on his back as if possessed. Tav Falco live. ...

Cleaning ladies also experience the sublime (Aine O’Dwyer)

16/06/2015

Where Scarlatti or Bach strove to elevate the consciousness with uplifting symmetrical counterpoint, O'Dwyer reaches into a slightly different church music tradition...

Loitered Lens : Sleaford Mods

14/06/2015

Jason Williamson and Andrew Fearn bring it on....

Sleepers awake as Camden Rocks.

13/06/2015

Skindred, LTNT, Red House Glory, Outside the Coma, Beasts, The Dirty Youth - for each band there is a different tributary toward whatever end they see coming....

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