Issue 12
Ian MacKaye
Also Featuring: Big Deal, AJ Weberman, The Warehouse Project & more...
Reviewed: Real Estate, Prince Rama, Wilco, Zola Jesus, Dum Dum Girls, The Field. Plus, in the world of film we look at Tyrannosaur, Drive, Melancholia, The Skin I Live in and we check out Bob Dylan's Jesus years and Daniel Johnston's demons in our music docs section.
Features
Held at Store Street, in a disused space beneath Piccadilly Station – a car park t...
Brainwash Festival is the definitive antidote to autumn greys and winter blues, an...
Album Reviews
Shield Your Eyes
Read the band’s own account of the writing and recording process for their latest ...
Real Estate
Generating significant critical acclaim upon its release in 2009, Real Estate's de...
Birdengine
Birdengine is Lawry Joseph Tilbury and The Crooked Mile, his debut album,...
The Field
As with many musical methodologies grounded in repetition, what at first is tediou...
Wilco
I’ve always found the "American Radiohead" tag Wilco are often given to be a littl...
The Drums
With a supporting slot for Kings of Leon, national television appearances and an e...
Zola Jesus
Armed with a voice that sounds suspiciously like a certain Florence Welch, we have...
The Stepkids
So much music has been made over the past half-century or so that it’s impossible ...
Dum Dum Girls
It may be a pretentious and pretty unintelligible word but “shoegaze” is the best ...
Film Reviews
Paddy Considine
Paddy Considine’s directorial debut is one that holds a strong link to Gary Oldman...
Pedro Almodóvar
The newest film from impresario Pedro Almodavar takes a scalpel to the horror film...
Lars Von Trier
Even at the best of times, weddings can sometimes be unintentionally tense affairs...
Live Reviews
Zola Jesus
Having caught Zola Jesus at Field Day earlier in the year in a set that suffered f...
Marnie Stern
The following was an email exchange on Wednesday, September 28th:
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Death Grips
I don’t know if anyone else has noticed, but alongside the ultra-cool pictures and...
Screaming Females
As anyone will most likely testify, traditional Victorian nursery rhymes can shove...
Music Documentaries
Jeff Feurzeig
There are few artists who embody the tragic and the beautiful quite like Daniel Jo...
Joel Gilbert
Never heard of this music documentary covering one of the most surprising and fasc...
