Category: Sound

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

Hank Ray : Interview [Pt. 2]

Berlin sightseeing? Guess I would take you on a “Dining ‘n’ Drinking with the Dead” roundtrip. John Heartfield, Bertholt Brecht, Nico. Something like that! I don’t dig tourists’ hotspots....

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Apples & Eve [Live]

Apples & Eve :close your eyes and they could be opening for Edith Piaf framed by a velvet curtain while the audience drink pink champagne and blow smoke rings...

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Kid Congo Powers and the Pink Monkey Birds [Live]

Kid Congo Powers, once guitarist for The Cramps, (and Nick Cave), unleashes his six-string on Brighton's Green Door Store...

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Lost Elvis Duets

'the presumably bouffant Miss Springfield replies tartly: ‘I think we are ready to work now Mr. Presley.’ SWP reviews the legendary lost Elvis duets....

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Loitered Lens : OHO

Aha! The evocatively-named OHO play Hoxton Bar and Kitchen, Loitered Lens captures the photos....

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Aidan Baker : Already Drowning

seven portraits of acoustic melancholy, distorted love and gothic eroticism...

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San Cisco : Interview

'I think the boys have become more 'feminine', I catch them painting their nails and have to stop them from trying on my clothes' San Cisco's Scarlett asserts tour dominance...

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Hank Ray : Interview [Part 1]

In advance of the release of Sinister Funtime, Hank Ray talks (at length) about music, The Cramps, labels and lyrics...

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King of Drone : Aidan Baker Interview

More than a feeling : Trebuchet interviews eclectic drone maestro Aidan Baker about a bunch of random stuff that we wanted to know. ...

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Kid Koala : [Live] The Scala

Kid Koala treats his audiences to all manner of quirky entertainment alongside his turntable trickery. ...

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Sun Explodes Release Video for Seven Three one

The Sun Explodes are a heavy rock/metal band from Carlisle, UK and have just released their first single from upcoming second album "We Build Mountains" to an overwhelmingly positive response! The...

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Benoit Pioulard : Hymnal

Mechanisms for the reordering of memory and forward living. Benoit Pioulard : Hymnal. Released 4th March on Kranky ...

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Pombagira : Maleficia Lamiah

It goes nowhere despite having more effort in its two long tracks than most metal releases in the last month....

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Cattle : Cattle [EP]

And so the EP balances perfectly between the extremes of order and screechscreechscreech, and it's oh so very dazzlingly wonderful....

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Drenge : Live, Dingwalls

Drenge have it and they revel in it. A review of Drenge live at Dingwalls 26th Feb 2013 ...

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The Jar Family : Interview

'it's only really folk inasmuch as The Jar Family is music for the common man by the common man - and we are quite common'...

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Earnest Endeavours | Mono/Poly

Secret Video Invite : MONO/POLY + FREE THE ROBOTS EUROPE TOUR MARCH 2013. Thurs 14-Mar-13 @ Village Underground...

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Hank Ray and The Raymen : Sinister Funtime.

Sinister Funtime is twisted and wretched. The whole album is a crazed booze-fuelled sex-beat for delinquents everywhere. ...

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UFO : Live, Oxford

Never a swaggering frontman in the first place, UFO's Phil Mogg reaps the benefits in his latter years, still delivering classic rock in 2013 to Oxford's O2...

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Nhoah : Tangowerk

Nhoah's reappraisal of Tango is painted in bold strokes, dappling the Argentianian rhythms and Iberian histrionics with electronica and sequenced beats, rather than vice versa....

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Free Song : Anna Lena

Anna Lena & the Orchids will release her self-titled, debut EP on March 21st 2013....

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London Afrobeat Collective : Floradita [Gig]

All of the musicians are superb, they’re tight as hell, and they write and play great songs. And with the number of baritone sax solos on offer, I leave a very happy man. ...

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Mono/Poly European Tour 2013

London is treated to a rare UK performance by Psych-Soul visionary Mono/Poly 2013...

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Vulgaari : Vulgaari

Vulgaari by Vulgaari is such a mind numbing record that it should be the centrepiece in a church to mental restraint. - An Everyman Review of Good Ole Metal...

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Black Music: What’s Going On?

To make a masterpiece you need raw talent, terrific songs, musicians who can create soulful grooves and producers who experiment . SWP asks of Black Music : Where are they?...

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Loitered Lens : Neurotic Mass Movement

Photographer Carl Batson captures Neurotic Mass Movement onstage....

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Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds : Her Majesty’s Theatre

Review: Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Performing Push the Sky Away. Her Majesty’s Theatre, London. Feb 10th 2013...

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Blue Coupe : Live

The new material stands up well alongside the old, and marked them out as something far more than a mere nostalgia act, rather a band who still have something to say....

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Dubstep Allstars Vol. 10 – Plastician

Trying to unite the disparate tendencies into a compilation is already ambitious but trying to unite them into a continuous mix could seem like asking for trouble. Plastician produces some...

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Patrick Wolf : Live, Teatro Lara, Madrid

'Sometimes I'm a fuckup', he explains, 'but I kinda think that's what you like about me'....

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