Category: Sound

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

Riot:Noise [Live at the Borderline]

Playing at 8pm to a room of first pinters shouldn't make a difference to these seasoned road dogs, and true enough by the end of the show there were new fans aplenty....

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Steve Hackett : Hammersmith Apollo

It wasn't a reverential note-for-note reproduction of the original recordings, but neither was it a ground-up re-imagining that didn't respect the original versions....

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Reverend Elvis : Interview

'For getting drunk and angry: Psychobilly and Punk is still the best music in the world!'...

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Loitered Lens: James

James at the Brixton Academy...

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Tubular Bells for Two

Their idea, conceived round a fire with a few glasses of wine, was to reproduce Tubular Bells on two guitars...

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Loitered Lens : Mick Harvey

His apology for the newer songs being under rehearsed was unnecessary - their rawness captured the essence of the songs in a more stripped down and tenderly passionate manner than the album versions....

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Mick Harvey + Duke Garwood + Brous – The Lexington

His apology for the newer songs being under-rehearsed was unnecessary - their rawness captured the essence of the songs in a more stripped down and tenderly passionate manner than the album versions...

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Make Better Music 70 : Time

There is no aural analog of the photograph or still frame from a film. Sound is, at its core, inherently a time-dependent phenomenon. ...

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Helloween : HMV Forum

Hi-jinks and Helloween metal energy = Win....

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Loitered Lens: Link Wray

I said, “Let me give you a hand” and proceeded to walk arm in arm with Link Wray, dodging the traffic, across Camden High Street...

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Loitered Lens : Ruen Brothers

Ruen Brothers light up the stage at XOYO...

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Volbeat : Outlaw Gentlemen and Shady Ladies

Outlaw Gentlemen and Shady Ladies is definitely a triumph for Volbeat and exhibits an underlying confidence and joy in writing good songs. ...

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Rebekah : Reconnected 03

If you can get past the lifestyle techno corporate packaging, CLR releases some very good work...

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Marillion Convention Weekend [Review]

Weekend-long fan conventions have been a regular feature of the Marillion calendar since the first one at an out-of-season Pontins back in 2002...

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Mark Latham, Photographer [Interview]

Aggression is probably the biggest emotion because a lot of the stuff I shoot is aggressive music and it comes across in the shots....

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Ebony Tower : The Magic Box Pt 1

Despite the bands occasional use of the term "prog" in promotion, they don't go in for grandiose epics. ...

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Simian Mobile Disco : Delicacies

Maybe you had to be there' Dave Rush reviews Simian Mobile Disco's live album...

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Kid Congo Powers : Interview [Part 2]

'I was in and out of the closet. I was a very flamboyant gay teenager and became a rock ‘n’ roller'...

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The Shaking Sensations : Start Stop Worrying

This is an album to induce a trancelike post-rock euphoria, rather than one to focus on. ...

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Jaga Jazzist : Live with the Britten Sinfonia

A crazy band who make crazy music, then. And their latest album is suitably mental....

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Reverend Elvis : Desperation

Think Death/Psycho/Gospel/Blues/Country Billy and then some. Everything Psychobilly should be, but isn’t. ...

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The Icarus Line on Giant Drag

Joe Cardamone of the Icarus Line talks about producing the 2013 release by Giant Drag - Waking Up is Hard to Do....

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Loitered Lens: Mala Rodriguez

Mala Rodriguez brings some Latin smoulder to the Village Underground....

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Swans Review : Mouth to Mouth

Review of Mouth to Mouth Festival. Curated by Swans leader Michael Gira news of Mouth to Mouth bolstered expectations of an loud night of outsider noise and insider musical elitism. ...

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Kid Congo Powers : Interview [Pt.1]

When The Cramps asked me to be in The Cramps, I quit everything, threw my shoes in their air and my books out the window and said, I’m going with you!...

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Counterfeit i : Mindfulness and Music

'Dark' music can be empowering because in listening to it, your mind is brought through some places that you may not go on your own....

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Ian McCulloch : Holy Ghosts

Mac's voice has aged with the same sweet languid complexity as an oak-barelled Sauternes....

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Troller : [Album Review]

Troller seem undecided which direction to go in – sepulchral or affirmative and this seems to be the sound of a group still in transit....

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Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs [Live Review]

Essentially, they need to be detained Clockwork Orange-style with their eyelids clamped open and forced to watch the New York Dolls until their guyliner runs...

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Feeding People : Island Universe

Youth shouldn't be safe, it should be more exploratory, it should shock and offend, and demand a better world....

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