I wonder if anyone actually knows the exact number of gigs that Mark E Smith and The Fall have performed...
The Mercury Music Prize nominations are announced tomorrow and we are asking you who should be nominated this year...
Beacons, the jewel in the North of England’s music and arts festival crown, has just unveiled its first acts for...
Just as the last vestiges of Hurricane Bertha whips through Heslaker Farm on Sunday and threatens to blow Beacons right...
Nick Drake inspired Lunar festival returns to Umberslade estate for its third edition.
This week: Liam Gallagher lets himself down. Badly. I talk more about The Fall‘s recent gig in Bristol and check...
This week: the brilliant second album from Yuck, The Orb‘s new 3CD boxset, the new Parquet Courts EP and a...
Given Crippled Black Phoenix’s levels of productivity – a total of nine albums in an eight year recording history (that...
Come the first weekend in June, the Lunar Festival will return to the scene of last year’s triumph at the...
With its huge raft of unexpected entertainments, Glastonbury is still very capable of surprising and exhilarating the most jaded and cynical of observers. But as it moves forward into it is sadly no longer that wholly unique, utopian paradise of magic, mystery, joy and a shared collective vision of wanting to change the world.
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What does soul mean to you? I’m writing primarily in a musical sense, regarding production and integrity to material and...
The Fall‘s 30th studio album ‘Re-Mit’ provided 2013 with one of its highlights and proved to be one of Mark...
“The ghosts of my life,” sang Japan frontman David Sylvian sometime back in the 80s, “blow wilder than before.” Witnessing...
To herald the arrival of their third long player, Israel’s Tiny Fingers have just unveiled a new video to accompany...
A pictorial account of the Glastonbury Festival which was held at Worthy Farm, near Pilton in Somerset, England from Wednesday...