Amusing titles like “You Kill Bugs Good, Man” left in the past. Groove orientated, summery feel good songs gone. Even,...
Sonic shipmates on the cosmic cruising Battleship Ethel, Carl Didur and Michael McLean’s equally freeform Kosmiche enterprise, Zacht Automaat,...
If the waves of popular music move in trends and cycles, one man resolutely panning the bandwagons and fads for...
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There are many bands who try to emanate the sound of Bruce Springsteen and his own inclusion in this...
Back in 2006, when indie was having one of its commercial ups (and bands were scoring no.1 singles and albums),...
There are two types of sunrise. There are those you see during the winter, the ones that skulk in while...
The signs before I got this album were very strong indeed. Not only were the two tracks that did the...
I spend my life chasing down new bands, it’s what I do, like some sort of dog’s bollock licking compulsion....
A party on top of a party, Hyde park provided all the spectacle of the Olympics opening ceremony, with a...
For a band who dress like locusts onstage, whose average song length is under a minute and have song titles...
Lou Reed took to the stage last Friday night looking entirely frail, but it was soon clear that he had...
There were suspicions from the start. One excellent album, one a croc of shit. I should have known, I...
Relationships are tempestuous. In the space of days, (sometimes hours) the exuberance of a love you thought would last a...
Lammo’s latest young boys The Crookes return with the excellent Hold Fast, specialising in a 60s-streaked dedication to swooning and...
Saturday dawned and it was flag cracking weather, so much so that I later had to go and buy a...