Issue 1
Micah P. Hinson
Also Featuring: Twin Peaks, Thomas Truax, Power Pop, Happy Birthday, Here We Go Magic & more...
Welcome to the first ever Kicking Against The Pricks. You will find an exploration of music, film and TV in the form of features on Texas vs Sheffield and Power Pop and via interviews with Micah P. Hinson to Thomas Truax on his love for Twin Peaks. Plus, lots more Twin Peaks related articles as we celebrate twenty years of weird wonder. Plenty of album, film and live reviews too...Enjoy!
Features
I left Sheffield late last summer - so correct me if things have changed in the mo...
The phone rings and a voice answers “Hello?” in a slow accentuated Texas drawl....
Sub Pop has just released yet another pop tainted infectious summer record in the ...
Album Reviews
Crystal Castles
Any band that got their name from She-Ra's fortress in the sky can’t be all bad....
Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
Would it be fair to discount Ariel Pink’s past in favor of his present incarnation...
Happy Birthday
There’s certainly a tightrope to be walked between insanely joyous hook-infested s...
Villagers
“I was a dreamer staring out of windows, out onto the main street ‘cos that’s wher...
Lou Reed
16.01 x 4: Still raw provoking girders of disturbed noise from a crucible built on...
Micah P. Hinson
“Take the barrel, take the breath and the aim....
Pulled Apart By Horses
Pulled Apart By Horses is a band that about two years ag...
Roky Erickson & Okkervil River
Devotional Number One begins: a roughly textured and crude recording of R...
Sam Amidon
Celebrating the ways the past provides the musical blueprint of the present is som...
Th National
Like all recent art forms, popular music like cinema and television before it (and...
Thomas Truax
Sonic dreamer; what a fitting title - as while Thomas Truax has been reinventing t...
Film Reviews
Pascal Chaumeil
There's nothing more brazenly annoying to me than when new singer songwriter types...
Live Reviews
Animal Colective & Danny Perez
Human walks slowly but surely across the dried bed of a wide river in the drizzle....
Broken Social Scene
After the two leading members releasing “solo” albums (under the Broken Social Sce...
Various
A few Saturdays back I went to DIY Day. Well, I went to a part of it....
Ganglians - Eagulls -Slowcoaches
First up tonight are a brand new addition to the current stable of Leeds bands....
Hot Water Music
Just three songs into the set, Hot Water Music have perf...
Olafur Arnlds
Four pieces are performed tonight: Johnny Greenwood’s ‘P...
The Hold Steady
If you know a Hold Steady fan (which you surely do), the...
Mike TV
In case you didn't know, this year marks 20 years since the original airing of ...
Soundtracks
