Music
Live: The Stranglers, O2 Academy, Leeds, 17.3.15
It’s been a particularly full on build up to this year’s Stranglers tour, and I don’t think I’ve missed one since the 1980s. I achieved a lifetime ambition to interview bassist JJ Burnel, and also read a newly published book on the band, by long-time fan Phil Knight. The book, Strangled: Identity, Status, Structure and the …
Win Tickets to See Congo Natty / Sherwood & Pinch and more at Koko
Jungle music legend Congo Natty heads to KOKO in London on June 13th. Its a unique opportunity to catch one of the real game changers of the underground UK scene in action, and he’s bringing a stellar line up with him. We’ve featured Sherwood & Pinch, aka Dub Legend Adrian Sherwood and the golden boy …
See: PVRIS Release Video For ‘White Noise’
Boston-based alternative rock trio PVRIS have teamed up with Nylon for the premiere of their new haunting video for White Noise. Directed by Raul Gonzo, the concept behind the video paid homage to Steven Spielberg’s 1982 classic Poltergeist. “I originally wrote the song with a bit of inspiration from the movie,” says PVRIS lead vocalist …
Say Psych: Album Review – Wicked Sun by Narco States
Narco States are one of those bands who, on the surface, sound like many others who you could safely file under ‘garage’. There are the MC5/ Stooges wails and lo-fi drums, and thrumming bass. There is the sort of wailing organ swirling in and out of the mix which is redolent of any number of …
Live Review: Johnny Marr – Leadmill, Sheffield 20-03-15
Just in case you were wondering about tonight’s headline act, as soon as the lights went down, the crowd left you in no doubt that a legend was about to take centre stage… “Johnny. Johnny. Johnny fucking Marr! – Johnny. Johnny. Johnny fucking Marr! ” The protagonist takes the stage and ploughs straight into …
Meet: ‘Walks With Motorists’: A Talk With White Hills
If you’re a fan of New York City’s White Hills, then you know they’re not a band to rest on their laurels. With each album they seem to take their fuzzed-out space rock to another, much higher plateau. Whether it be creating ambient drone tracks to sit in-between their gothic Sabbath crunch rockers, or taking a …
Live Review: Bang Bang Romeo at The Plug, 21 March 2015
It’s been almost a year since I last saw Bang Bang Romeo live. That’s not to say they haven’t been playing the gigs, indeed their multiple appearances at the Tramlines last year made them one of the most talked about acts of the festival, it’s just that the vagaries of my day job and life …
Live review: The Lovely Eggs at the Trades Club, Hebden Bridge.
When a singer is hammered on stage it is usually incredibly irritating but tonight it actually adds to the anarchy this talented duo seem to thrive on. When Holly Ross lurches up to the mic and says with utter conviction this what we believe, then launches into an energised Fuck It , you know they …
Not Forgotten: David Byrne – Feelings
In retrospect Feelings is probably the last time that David Byrne made a conscious effort to make an album that might sell to an audience beyond his most obsessed fans. Where his previous self titled album had been a mature mix of material with a very definite adult feel about it, Feelings was partly a …
Features: Tournee De Satanists – Dirty White Fever / Eye of the Liger – Tour diary (part 3)
Welcome to part 3 of Tournee De Satanists.[Parts 1 and 2 can be found by clicking HERE] Last week we left the bands flailing around in a dark windowless room with a cricket bat come broard sword – like you do – here’s what happened next… Day 6: Metz – Le troubadour –22/01/15 The next …