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
Live Reviews
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 ...
Stephen Malkmus & The Jicks - Girls
Following a fairly brief closure for renovation, the new Manchester Ritz is back i...
Wilco
In the opener, ‘Art of Almost’, the whole band are immediately utilised, and as th...
Ryan Adams
As you take your seat in York’s Grand Opera House it’s difficult not to become eng...
Battles
Your second rate gig reviewer, your small-time hack, will, in his lack of imaginat...
Adam Buxton
If, like many understimulated and over privileged people in the computer literate ...
Mike TV
Music Documentaries
Jim Fields & Michael Gramaglia
With the opportunity for shoppers to pick up a Ramones t-shirt alongside their gro...
Sean Dunne
Juggalos have been featured all over the news recently after the FBI took the some...
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...
Album Reviews
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...
Kurt Vile
I find it incredibly difficult to concentrate on writing whilst other stimuli are ...
Opposite Sex
There are not many albums that are recorded in only eight hours, and even fewer wh...
the Fall
The Fall’s new album can be seen as part of the arsenal of noteworthy albums that ...
