Issue 14

Girls
Also Featuring: Melvins, Xiu Xiu, High Places, Real Estate and more.

Reviews of the likes of Can, David Lynch, Youth Lagoon, Kurt Vile, The Fall. We also have a bumper crop of live reviews such as: Magazine, St. Vincent, Constellations Festival, Stephen Malkmus, Battles, Why?, Wilco, Ryan Adams, Jens Lekman and Adam Buxton. As well as our usual delve into the world of film and music documentaries.

Features

Some bands have a work ethic and a love for what they do bigger than the changing ...
The dance-pop of Rob Barber and Mary Pearson is tinged with an esoteric eclecticis...
As part of our new feature ‘Album by Album’ we ask a recor...
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“We’re cursed!” says lead singer/guitarist Martin Courtney of Real Estate’s tour s...

Album Reviews

the Fall
The Fall’s new album can be seen as part of the arsenal of noteworthy albums that ...
Kurt Vile
I find it incredibly difficult to concentrate on writing whilst other stimuli are ...
Lou Reed & Metallica
This album has gained a strange status....
Opposite Sex
There are not many albums that are recorded in only eight hours, and even fewer wh...
Laura Veirs
One of the joys of music is the thrill of discovery....
Cass McCombs
In the past few years there's been a growing trend of the sorta-double album, one ...
David Lynch
There are a lot of reasons for anticipating a solo debut album from David Lynch....
Eleanor Friedberger
As a member of the grossly under-appreciated Fiery Furnaces, Eleanor Friedberger h...
Youth Lagoon
Youth Lagoon is the moniker of Idaho's Trevor Powers, who holed up last year to wr...
CAN
Amidst the seemingly unending procession of more-or-less desultorily reissued mast...

Live Reviews

Ryan Adams
As you take your seat in York’s Grand Opera House it’s difficult not to become eng...
Why?
In the hushed tones of Islington's gorgeous Union Chapel, Why?...
St Vincent
On more than one occasion this evening, Annie Clark (St....
Battles
Your second rate gig reviewer, your small-time hack, will, in his lack of imaginat...
Magazine
Tonight is one giant sausage-fest....
Wilco
In the opener, ‘Art of Almost’, the whole band are immediately utilised, and as th...
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Girls
Following a fairly brief closure for renovation, the new Manchester Ritz is back i...
Adam Buxton
If, like many understimulated and over privileged people in the computer literate ...
Jens Lekman
There are certain genres of music where the odds are just stacked against you when...
Various
Constellations Festival returned to Leeds for its second year with a line-up that ...

Film Reviews

Andrea Arnold
At first glance, Andrea Arnold seems a thoroughly odd choice of director to tackle...
Göran Hugo Olsson
Throughout the late '60s and '70s, Swedish television and documentary crews flew t...

Music Documentaries

Sean Dunne
Juggalos have been featured all over the news recently after the FBI took the some...
Jim Fields & Michael Gramaglia
With the opportunity for shoppers to pick up a Ramones t-shirt alongside their gro...

Mike TV

As I’m sure you’ll know the month of Movember is upon us once again, and there’s a...
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