Category: Sound

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

Napalm Death : Apex Predator – Easy Meat

The visceral fury of punk with the dexterity and precision of metal...

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Loitered Lens : Diagrams

Diagrams live at the Lexington...

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The Marigold : Kanaval

An intersection between prog, drone, cinematic noise and the cathartic gospel...

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Chris Spedding : Joyland

Featuring partial reunions of King Mob, with cameos from Johnny Marr and Ian McShane, Joyland is greasy, elemental rock par excellence....

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Solefald : World Metal. Kosmopolis Sud

To say that they're referencing Dadaism or Situationism wouldn't be a cop out, but it wouldn't tell you anything either, and that is the danger of this record....

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Loitered Lens : Kreator

No frills full-on hardcore metal. Photos of Kreator at the HMV Forum, London...

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Ari Up on The Slits and Chris Spedding [Interview]

The Clash and the Pistols all became extended family to me. They were all like my brothers....

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Loitered Lens : Arch Enemy

Photos of Arch Enemy at the HMV Forum, London...

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Music : Did We Even Like it Anyway?

Why is the music industry failing? Perhaps it’s just that most folk never really liked it much anyway....

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Four-track orange vinyl-only (Grey Branches)

I think most of my output has an Industrial feel to it. It’s the first genre of music I really fell in love with as a teenager, and it’s seems I can’t undo that love. ...

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Loitered Lens : Aynsley Lister

Following the fine tradition of the post-Christmas photo issue, photographs of rock guitarist Aynsley Lister live at Farnham Maltings...

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Kreator, HMV Forum [Live]

No frills full-on hardcore metal is what long-established Kreator delivered to the baying HMV Forum audience...

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Loitered Lens : Hazel O’Connor, Hugh Cornwell, John Cooper Clarke

Hazel O'Connor, Hugh Cornwell, John Cooper Clarke live at Brixton Academy. Photos...

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Donor : Against All

Schappert takes material from the present-day and brings out the dystopian aspects of a much closer and less-glamourous dystopian future....

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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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Zeitkratzer : WHITEHOUSE

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”W/dropcapithin the institutionalised avant-garde, overt but actually often inert rule-breaking is the norm. There are numerous hidden codes...

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Loitered Lens : Chantel McGregor

Photos of Chantel McGregor at the Bilston Robin 2, December 2014...

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Loitered Lens : Mariachi El Bronx

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

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Blockheads and Wilko Johnson

The Blockheads played a great mix of old and new. The crowd bounced, Hussey snarled, Watt-Roy dripped and Wilko Johnson strutted a new lease of life...

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Fish : Sub89, Reading [Live]

With Fish giving indications that this may well be his final tour of club venues on this sort of scale, it's a case of "see him while you can"...

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Loitered Lens: Dedwardians

Photos of Dedwardians at the Finsbury on December 18th...

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Loitered Lens : Hacktivist

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”B/dropcap-Boy posturing and errant guitars, tech-metal-grime-rock hybrid Hactivist performed a bruising show at London’s 02 Academy on...

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Bl=ndfolds, The Waiting Room [Live]

Bl=ndfolds' music is quite far removed from both VVV and The Valves, in that it is a darker, scuzzier electronica with growling vocals from singer Paraic....

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Aynsley Lister, Farnham Maltings [Live]

His brand of melodic rock-infused blues might not be particularly edgy or on-trend, but is unlikely to go out of fashion anytime soon ...

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(No) Token Gestures

The circumstances of its birth have made Token determined to follow its own agenda and pay no attention to passing trends, focussing on what it sees as the most important elements of what it calls...

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Loitered Lens : Portico

The sublunary tones of an album featuring vocal performances from Jamie Woon, Jonno McCleery and Alt-J's Joe Newman found their complement in the atmospheric setting...

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Loitered Lens : Robbie Boyd

Big hook folk-pop, Robbie Boyd at Hoxton Bar and Kitchen, December 10th. Photos....

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Love Buzzard, Shacklewell Arms

Launching their single 'Give it Some Range', Love Buzzard brought the blues to The Shacklewell Arms (and faces)...

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Loitered Lens : Toyah

Photos of Toyah at the O2, Islington....

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Luna Rossa : Secrets and Lies

Luna Rossa increasingly feels not so much "Panic Room unplugged" as a separate parallel band in its own right. ...

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