Since their excellent 2013 debut Oishin, DIIV have seemed to be constantly on the verge of collapse, their story disintegrating...
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Musician Sean O’Hagan has built his post-Microdisney music career on one dogmatic, unswerving belief – that music began and ended with...
Does the world really need a Northern Irish version of Real Estate? (Does it even need the original Real Estate?)...
Twenty-two years after their wondrous debut album made them my go-to band for long dark nights of the soul (which,...
Warning: this review contains spoilers. I figured that anyone likely to be concerned about spoilers has seen The Force Awakens...
“I used to live in a world/Of rock and roll and tons of girls,” is the opening line of Royal...
My first encounter with Wire was hearing ‘Kidney Bingos’ on the John Peel show back in 1987, and subsequently getting...
Be careful what you wish for. Last time Mogwai played in Bangkok, at this very same venue in 2011, the...
I believe I can say with some confidence that, tonight, I have taken more drugs than anyone else in the...
I love it when bands build their own equipment. Imagine being so bloody amazing that no existing instruments or technology...
Just as I did last year (with Blank Realm’s loveably shambolic Grassed In), I begin 2015 with a cracking album...
Many years ago my mum came down to London for a few days to stay with me in my flat....
Ah, I love it when this happens. There I was, sharpening my hatchet, ready to bring another media darling crashing...
Ever since Hunter S Thompson got his arse handed to him by the Hell’s Angels and built a career on...
What the fuck, Britain? It may be because I emigrated in 2003, but I just don’t understand you any more....