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News: Smiths legend Mike Joyce pledges signed vinyl to record fair to help flooded record store
The Smiths drummer Mike Joyce has donated some very rare signed vinyl to a special record fair that will help save Muse Music who lost their stock after floodwater ripped through Hebden Bridge on Boxing Day. Mike’s signed records form a unique retrospective of Britain’s greatest indie band that is just one of the star …
Not Forgotten – DEVO ‘Duty Now For The Future’
Devo’s first album ‘Q – Are We Not Men? A – We Are Devo’ was by all accounts a messy, protracted birth, brought about in no small way by casting Brian Eno as the midwife. Despite many moments of genius, Eno’s forté of making pedestrian bands interesting had never been more surplus to requirements, his …
The Provincial Archive: Bad Connection
“But Craig, isn’t rock ‘n’ roll dead ?” No. Turns out that our Edmonton heroes, The Provincial Archive, are reincarnated proof. Back as a three-piece, having said good bye to Ryan Podlubny and Nathan Burge, new single ‘Bad Connection’ finds them in fine, punching form. Singer and guitarist Craig Schram, and drummer Bramwell Park, have been …
News: Alex G Live announces UK tour dates
Coming to the end of her Share Your Story tour, Alex G is playing live in the UK. After the release of several EPs and an album (which made it into my top ten of 2014), Alex is a musician whose music brings with it a great honesty wrapped in a beautiful voice. For three dates …
Film Review: The Wave (Bølgen; Norway)
What is a stereotypical Norwegian landscape if not a mountain above a fjord? And if a mountain fell into a fjord, would that not signify the end of a Norwegian world as we know it? This is exactly the premise for the first ever Norwegian disaster film that has taken domestic audiences by tsunami and …
New Music: Altadore – Clearer
Dropping immediately after the melodic battering ram of ‘Bar Lights’, Altadore’s new single was always going to sound slight by comparison. But once you’ve settled into its loping rhythm, the gentle message of ‘Clearer; and Gabe Mouer’s trilling, roaming guitar will leave you happy that Spring has sprung and noting that there’s a freshness burgeoning …
New Music: Altadore – Bar Lights
It feels like a long time since Winter 2012’s ‘Golden Hills’, but it has been worth the wait: ‘Bar Lights’ is one hell of a start to 2015 for Altadore. You all know EXACTLY what it’s like. You’ve found a band that you love to pieces, you’ve metaphorically worn away the grooves on the vinyl listening …
From an old record box: The Mission – Hands Across The Ocean
It’s another product of the ‘Jive Alive’ era. I can’t think how else I would have ended up listening to this goth-indie-classic rock-folk mash-up of a band. Only a few years earlier I can remember filling out Smash Hits Polls uniformly trashing anything with a hint of gloom or rock. Worst bands and songs dominated by …
From an old record box: Belly – Seal My Fate
It has become a consistent starting point for the old ‘old record box’ articles. I wonder how the disc in question has come to gather dust – physically and virtually, absent until now from my electronic jukebox. For this particular vinyl I think it’s a case of hard luck and bad timing. I’d loved 1993’s ‘Feed …
Premiere: Fighting Caravans release video for “Bootmakers to the King”
We’ve been able to keep a close eye on Leeds quintet, The Fighting Caravans. Preferring to stay out of the live setting while they hone both their sounds and their songwriting, their growing number of fans have fed off scraps, the odd gig here and there, Middlesbrough and Sheffield seemingly the furthest they’ve been so …