Issue 16

Peaking Lights
Also Featuring: Richard Skelton, Damon Locks & more...

Reviews: Pulled Apart By Horses, Cloud Nothings, Django Django, M83, Field Music, Errors, Carindal, Henry Rollins, Guided By Voices, Minny Pops plus films and music docs as well as Mike TV's take on the Killing.

Features

A collection of both A and B-sides released during 1981 (what the band term "year ...
It's a measure of just how elastic the term "post-rock" is that it gets applied to...
It must have been with a considerable degree of melancholy that Richard Skelton an...
Peaking Lights’ 936 was undeniably one of the highlights and arguably one...

Live Reviews

Minny Pops
Opening proceedings are locals Jack & The Beanstalks, who are tonight playing ...
Cymbals Eat Guitars
The oddly named New York quartet Cymbals Eat Guitars returned in 2011 with their s...
M83
In sharp contrast with the last tour I caught them on three years ago, in support ...
Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins bounds onto the stage, he grabs the microphone, he wraps the cord ar...

Film Reviews

Jason Reitman
Oscar winner Diablo Cody and Oscar nominee Jason Reitman team up...
Michel Hazanavicius
While disappointing, it’s probably safe to say that, for the majority of film-goer...
Steve McQueen
Sex addiction still remains something of a cloudy term to some, ...

Mike TV

We British bloody love a good police drama....

Music Documentaries

Stephen. C. Mitchell
The Kings of Leon have risen astronomically over recent years; since their explosi...
Penelope Spheeris
The Decline of Western Civilisation III is the third and final instalment...

Album Reviews

Field Music
For a group on the fringes of the mainstream that only flirt with wider popularity...
Pulled Apart By Horses
Backed by Radio 1 and endlessly adored by their mountain of loyal fans, Leeds' hom...
Cloud Nothings
When 'No Future/No Past' began doing the rounds a couple of months ago, I could ha...
Guided By Voices
When Bob Pollard announced he was reforming the “classic”-era Guided By Voices lin...
Islet
The flickering electric pulse that ushers in Islet’s first full-length manages to ...
Django Django
Django Django have been ‘ones to watch’ for quite a while now; 2010 saw them catch...
Errors
Errors’ new album, Have Some Faith in Magic, has moments where it could s...
Cardinal
For the benefit of those who don’t know who Cardinal are (most of the world), here...
Robert George Saull
Robert George Saull takes a break from fronting the Purgatory Players and offers h...
Leonard Cohen
Back in 1988, Leonard Cohen, whilst promoting his album I’m Your Man, sai...
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