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#15 Johnny Lloyd, Tribes
Paying through the nose for lager? Got some poo on your head? Then you’re not following Johnny Lloyd’s festival advice… Read More »
Maps & Atlases
Forget huge billowing sails and a hardy rudder – all opening act Tall Ships really need to thunder ahead is a chuffing great big sound system that can cope with singer Ric’s obsession … Read More »
Holy-Esque
Vice and American Apparel sponsored excitement swills around Nation Of Shopkeepers tonight. Rather than grabbing a goodie bag, though, the crowd seem more excited to see exactly how frontman Pat … Read More »
Bear In Heaven
Have we not had enough of these serene synths, chill wave vocals and anonymous looking men stood rigidly behind keyboards? No, apparently, we have not, as BIH’s icily reinvigorating pop … Read More »
Graham Coxon ‘A+E’
Coxon returns with his eighth solo venture. We gave it a first spin to see how it fared… Read More »
Future Islands
This, Future Island’s twentieth gig in as many days, is the biggest headline show the enigmatic US band have ever played. But judging by tonight’s performance they’ll look back on it as one … Read More »
Track Of The Day #69
O. Children – ‘PT Cruiser’ Read More »
This Many Boyfriends
Towards the end of Michael Azerrad’s alt. rock retrospective ‘Our Band Could Be Your Life’, the author describes the arrival of Pavement, Cat Power and their ilk as “indie about indie”. … Read More »
Snow Patrol
Things people hate: soulless enormo-domes filled with the kinds of people who look like they were abducted from Boots while queuing up for their daily meal deal fix; gigs that comes with … Read More »
Kanye West And Jay-Z
Kanye West and Jay-Z arrive unannounced in London to play a last-minute guerrilla show to launch their new video. A crowd gather before a grey wall, backed by a sullen grey sky. Journalists … Read More »
What A Week With JJ Dunning & John Kerrison #10
Hello and welcome to ever-semi-popular hebdomadal news-up, What A Week. This week’s column is brought to you for the first time ever by the conjoined minds of John Kerrison and JJ Dunning, who … Read More »
The Phenomenal Handclap Band
‘Form And Control’ makes a promising enough start, leading with the Knife-esque electronica of ‘Following’’s warm synths and whispered vocals. ‘The Right One’ follows suit, before … Read More »
War of Words/ Speech Debelle
Lucy Duffield and Abi Browning are a pair of ladies you are probably going to hear an awful lot about in 2012. With La Roux’s Ben Langmaid on production duties, War Of Words’ first two … Read More »
Gary Numan
“Some of the songs were written when I was 19… to sing them at 53 is a tad embarrassing.” Gary Numan talks to Dan Stubbs… Read More »
Foster The People
Foster The People are barely one album into a career that only launched on British shores as recently as May this year, which makes it all the more impressive that Shepherd’s Bush Empire is … Read More »
The Top 50 Albums Of 2011: #10-#2
#10 Battles ‘Gloss Drop’ (Warp) Its gestation may have been troubled, but ‘Gloss Drop’ ended up being a difficult second album in the best possible sense. Battles always promised … Read More »
Battles
You can’t imagine Battles playing a bad gig – not like other bands might – because Battles are three of alternative music’s finest musicians. They quite simply don’t … Read More »
The Year Sensationally Experimental Rock Struck Back
This year, a host of albums emerged high on flowers and trees and birds and stuff. Fleet Foxes, Kurt Vile, Woods, Real Estate, Bon Iver, Atlas Sound, The War On Drugs, Beach Fossils… … Read More »
SWN Festival
Various venues, Cardiff 20-23/10/2011 Read More »
Queen Of Hoxton Launches Fresh Meat
London venue hosts battle of the bands… Read More »
Berlin Festival
Various Venues, Berlin
09-10/09/2011
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The Lines
Rhythm Factory, London
10/08/2011
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Mercury Prize Nominations Revealed
Anna Calvi and Metronomy among nominees… Read More »
Lonelady
Pavillion Theatre, Manchester
06/07/2011
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Viva Brother Reveal New Single
Slough band plot August release… Read More »
Battles Plan New UK Dates
Act for November shows… Read More »
