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Mick Harvey Interview: Part 2

06/06/2013

In part 2 of his interview, Mick Harvey talks about Nick Cave, murder and PJ Harvey....

Mick Harvey Interview: Part 1

30/05/2013

In part 1 of his interview, Mick Harvey talks about Australia, love songs, religion, songwriting and the new album...

Mick Harvey + Duke Garwood + Brous – The Lexington

10/05/2013

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...

Kid Congo Powers : Interview [Part 2]

26/04/2013

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

Charlie Boyer and the Voyeurs [Live Review]

09/04/2013

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...

Feeding People : Island Universe

06/04/2013

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

Apples & Eve [Live]

03/04/2013

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...

San Cisco : Interview

26/03/2013

'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...

Drenge : Live, Dingwalls

08/03/2013

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

Free Song : Anna Lena

27/02/2013

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

Loitered Lens : Neurotic Mass Movement

17/02/2013

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

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

13/02/2013

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

Meshuggah and Devin Townsend headline Brixton show.

30/01/2013

Meshuggah and The Devin Townsend Project co - headline show at O2 Academy Brixton 3rd May 2013...

Interview: Reptile Youth

25/01/2013

'if you have a country where the same old guys have been in power for a long time then it’s going to be a shit country'...

Loitered Lens: Macy Gray

13/01/2013

A throatful of gravel and a bag of class, Macy Gray rules the pink feather boa onstage at Koko, London...

Ultraista: Cable Club [live]

13/12/2012

Trouble is, I’d rather see RADIOHEAD instead. And I don’t even like Radiohead....

Splashh, Wolf Alice, Big Deal: 100 Club [Live]

12/12/2012

With the tight jeans and pointed boots bands stagnating and the now middle-aged grebo bands reforming, East London hairdressers may hit hard times as the kids start growing out those crew cuts into...

Loitered Lens: Splashh

09/12/2012

Carl Byron Batson photographs Splashh at the 100 Club, London...

Childhood Break Through

04/12/2012

Last month’s inclusion in the popular music press and a very favourable review in The Guardian have finally put these guys on the radar and are all good indications that Childhood may now be...

Tomahawk! Patton and Co release new Video: Stone Letter

03/12/2012

Tomahawk's video for "Stone Letter" the first single from their forthcoming album Oddfellows, is here! ...

Loitered Lens: The Hickey Underworld

02/12/2012

The Hickey Underworld performed a well-articulated set with some solid beats, great guitar work and a certainty in the vocal that was no doubt helped by the newly trimmed beard....

Creeping Ivies: Stay Wild

30/11/2012

Becca has a strong, more booming voice than the punk singers, at times reminiscent of PJ Harvey or Empress of Fur. Perhaps a bit of gravel or drawl would have added to the tone, but generally it was...

The Zolas: Ancient Mars

29/11/2012

Piano/organ builds, picked guitar melodies, crunching riffs, and a lyrical approach that constructs vivid narratives using thematic language. It's funny, and fun, as well as being an almost perfect...

Loitered Lens: Two Gallants

25/11/2012

Two Gallants, who hail from sunny San Francisco but take their name from a short story in Dubliners by James Joyce, lack the laid-back attitude of the former but have an abundance of the intensity of...

Apples & Eve: Dionysus

23/11/2012

Genre-adjectives for the four-track will congregate around the word 'folk', mostly because there's a violin in there. Or a fiddle. Call it what you will. ...

Into the Appalachians [Tour Diary]

20/11/2012

'A single lane road etched through this land that’s not the north, or south, that's forgotten by the east but far from the west. If you pointed a rifle at the vast nothing that encompasses the...

Loitered Lens: Nightwish

18/11/2012

‘this gig was really about the new vocalist. Nightwish are the sort of band where the songs are bigger than the singer, but their material can be challenging regardless of who is singing it....

The Raymen: Death’s Black Train EP

16/11/2012

If you don’t buy it you will die, if you do buy it you will die. You may as well buy it and die happy....

Panic Room: On Business

16/11/2012

'exceedingly long songs, with largely instrumental content, too many time signatures, a subject matter focusing on the obscure and the middle-earth, and far too many widdly neo-classical solos. We...