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Review by Andy Nisbet “The Creation Records story is about the death of the independent” laments Bobby Gillespie, frontman of Primal Scream and former drummer of The Jesus and Mary Chain. It’s an observation that not only draws a conclusion to [...]
Photo by Todd Cooper / www.jasontoddcooper.com Review by Matthew Mowatt – Nouveau Casino, Paris – Aug 24th, 2011 There’s that age-old argument between music snobs and critics alike: Are you more of a live music person or a studio produced [...]
Boris – Heavy Rocks / Attention Please Sargent House Review by Jesse Pruneda If you haven’t been keeping up with the Japanese experimental noise-rock trio Boris, no one can blame you. They, like most of the tracks on Heavy Rocks [...]
The Black Ships – Kurofune EP Self-release (free online download) Review by Jasmine Martin The ebb and swell of guitar riffs and the screeching intonations of electric violins which open The Black Ships’ debut EP signals a declaration by its makers – [...]
Thurston Moore – Demolished Thoughts Matador Review by Will Donelson Throughout Thurston Moore’s latest solo effort, the Beck-produced Demolished Thoughts, a sombre atmosphere emerges which if anything is an ode to unrealised ideas, and dreams that were pushed aside. The [...]
Neil Young - A Treasure Reprise Review by Rod Kitson THE 1980s are a dirty great stain on many a recording artist’s copy book, a time most would rather forget. It was a period when crimes against art were rife. Music, [...]
Kicking off the summer with a debut show (June 2nd), The Black Ships, founded by guitarist Nick McCabe and bassist Si Jones (The Verve), string arranger and violinist Davide Rossi (Goldfrapp) and drummer Mig Schillace (Portishead), stormed the King’s College [...]
Sun Araw – Houston Abros Monofonus Press Review by Will Gore The heavy weighted yet ethereal pulse of Cameron Stallone’s solo project (conceived in Long Beach, California) continues in this release to provoke an acid trip aesthetic of lucid and [...]
Panda Bear – Tomboy Pawtracks Review by Echo Magazine The appropriately named Noah Lennox, who goes under the guise Panda Bear, has finally released his latest dose of hypnoidal anthems on LP. If Tomboy is his ark then Lennox has [...]
The Oscillation – Veils / Label [All Time Low Productions] –Within three years of the release of their debut album Out of Phase,The Oscillation have constructed a new LP of extraterrestrial material which reaches out into the murky depths of [...]
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