Issue 13

Aidan Moffat
Also Featuring: Yann Tiersen, The Strange Boys, Connan Mockasin, Butthole Surfers & more...

This month's album reviews include: Tom Waits, Atlas Sound, Spectrals, M83, Prince Rama, Radiohead, Steve Hauschildt, Sonic Youth & more. We also go from the world of 60's garage punks the monks through to George Harrison in our music doc sections. Live, we have Gold Panda to Mazes and festivals covered from Leeds to Memphis. 

Aidan Moffat - picture by Sarah Bowden

Features

“Hopefully we’re a little smarter....
The concept: I give myself two weeks to find out as much as I can about a band....
When thinking about the musings of Aidan Moffat, I always feel t...
Yann Tiersen possesses that kind of charisma, talent and nonchalant demeanour that...
You wouldn’t expect one of the year’s most exciting, forward-thinking and rewardin...

Live Reviews

Various
Gonerfest operates a bit like this: opening concert, evening club show, afterparty...
Gold Panda
It’s Light Night in Leeds tonight, and, presumably unbeknownst to Gold Panda or hi...
Various
At festivals it’s almost a given that you convince yourself of an insectoid abilit...
Mazes - Milk Maid - Brown Brogues
 ...

Film Reviews

Lynne Ramsay
Based on the hugely popular book by Lionel Shriver, we finally have here a film ad...
Woody Allen
Perhaps more than any other city in the world, cinema has been exceptionally kind ...

Mike TV

For those of you who have been wondering where this column has been for the last f...

Music Documentaries

Martin Scorsese
The Fab Four haven’t so much been studied or scrutinised over the years, but they ...
Dietmar Post and Lucia Palacios
“You're a monk, I'm a monk, we're all monks!...

Album Reviews

Summer Camp
The phrase, “summer camp,” means different things to different people....
Tom Waits
After seventeen albums and sixty-one years, you’d think there’d be nothing left to...
Steve Hauschildt
Steve Hauschildt will be familiar to any Emeralds fans as one of the trio behind t...
Atlas Sound
The narcoleptic malady that inflicts Bradford Cox’s latest Atlas Sound album revol...
The Strange Boys
The Strange Boys' music has always seemed to be drenched in something extensively ...
Radiohead
First listens of The King of Limbs presented a cohesive and concise recor...
Veronica Falls
After releasing a string of four fantastic singles over the past twelve months, Ve...
Prince Rama
Prince Rama have released one of the most striking albums of the year....
Oneohtrix Point Never
Replica is not a comfortable listen....
Oneohtrix Point Never
Replica is not a comfortable listen....
Sonic Youth
Sonic Youth released by Starbucks?...
Spectrals
Louis Jones of Spectrals seems almost unable to stop his creative outpour, releasi...
M83
As far as double albums go, all I have is negative connotations....
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