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

‘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...

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

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

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

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...

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Shambolic youth and vigour (LTNT)

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

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Does the Devil Have the Best Tunes?

Passion at every level, from personal trauma, hit and run thrill and love, to the way the world is moving: its cruelty, its pains and pleasures....

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Sleepers awake as Camden Rocks.

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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Looking good and rocking hard [LTNT]

Diverse personalities they may be, but musically they have honed what they do to a level of classical precision....

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Something of a mixed bag: Food Chain [London Afrobeat Collective]

I can hear this on an sunny afternoon whilst the crowd are still working out the kinks from the night before, but headlining material it ain’t....

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Obama Fills His Suit Only Too Well

While it is tempting to label Barack Obama, as many have, an "empty suit." Fact is, the term is not only facile but inaccurate....

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Jam in the middle of Wasp Season. Live Metal [Skyforger]

Meanwhile, the other venue in the side street had a light tank parked outside it. This was the metaller equivalent of a large open jar of jam in the middle of Wasp Season....

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Mystical Moves, Dance and Freedom : Interview [Salah El Brogy]

There’s a thriving dance community in the UK that really helps you keep that fire in your belly...

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Fasten your fascinators, Swingamajig is landing

An eclectic line up boasting not only the Electric Swing Circus, but a whole host of seriously crowd rousing beats...

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Officer?! There’s mashed potato on the Pentonville Road! [The Lovely Eggs]

dropcap style=”font-size:100px; color:#992211;”T/dropcaphere are six people who probably tune in to my witterings, four of whom have probably already abandoned ship half way through this...

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Blues purists must die [JJ Grey]

JJ Grey will no doubt continue his slow ascent in the blues world, playing to rapt (but quietened) audiences throughout the world...

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Integration and interrelation between the orchestral and the electronic [Michael Price]

As an exercise in demonstrating the possibilities of digital/orchestral enmeshment, Entanglement is at the top table. ...

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At Circa Tabac

I couldn’t say much for the bar but the bathroom was very accommodating....

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The Marigold : Kanaval

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

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Every myth is a memory, formed through complex layers of tellings through time.

OE: Orpheus and Euridice: For the next half an hour music and poetry weaved in and out of each other in a richly discursive mesh of words and sounds, sometimes obscuring and at other times refining...

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Don’t Slap Her, She’s Pretty!

Girls who want to avoid being clobbered should aim to be tall, blonde and pretty. Does the 'Slap Her!' video send out the wrong message? ...

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Dexter Dalwood : ‘London Paintings’

Whereas his previous work featured imagined interiors and locations acting as memorials to real people, here it is the narratives which are imagined...

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Muses, monsters and mannequins : Base Gallery

Muses, monsters and mannequins, an exhibition that explores what it means to be human....

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About Political Correctness

Political correctness is not actually about quelling ‘freedom of speech’ for the sake of defending others from offense....

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The Last Honky Tonk in Nashville

You’ll get a solid handshake, by men who believe a firm handshake can tell a lot...

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Scott Laudati : Hawaiian Shirts in the Electric Chair [Poetry]

Between the suburbs and the city, and all that they stand for in Laudati's oeuvre, there is the ever-present fear not of age itself, but of fading away rather than burning out...

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On Killer Cops and Reverse Racism

Does one identify with and/or benefit from hyper-authoritarian power or does one empathize with the plight of the powerless?...

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Berlin, Techno and the Fall of the Wall

A rich document of a remarkable period in the life of the city....

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Tom de Freston : Orpheus and the Minotaur

De Freston' s work has little to do with the emphatic and aggrandising tradition of history painting....

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Reeves Gabrels [Interview]

Reeves Gabrels, currently guitarist in The Cure and formerly David Bowie’s collaborator in Tin Machine, interviewed...

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Primus & the Chocolate Factory with the Fungi Ensemble

This album marks the release of the band’s darkest material since Pork Soda...

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Assassinated Beauty : Proud Camden

The exhibition is a retrospective of photos of Manic Street Preachers taken from Cummins' first NME shoot with the band in 1992...

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