Issue 19
Mount Eerie
Also Featuring: Mark Stewart, Jacuzzi Boys & more...
Reviewed: Lotus Plaza, Willis Earl Beal, Warm Digits, Grinderman, Johnny Greenwood, Futureheads, Graham Coxon, Bills Wells & Aidan Moffat, Cymbals, Strange Boys, Nite Jewel & more...
Features
Live Reviews
The Mountain Goats
Deep within the programme notes for tonight’s show, The Mountain Goats’ John Darni...
Robyn Hitchcock
I Often Dream of Trains is not Robyn Hitchcock’s best album....
The Strange Boys
It is The Strange Boys’ first show of their 2012 tour and their first visit to Man...
Bill Wells & Aidan Moffat
For one night only, the Brudenell Social Club has turned into a jazz bar; the tabl...
Summer Camp
The first time I saw Summer Camp was last year, supporting Wild Beasts at The Gran...
Earth
When Dylan Carlson’s pioneering drone collective last visited the city of Leeds th...
Krzysztof Penderecki & Jonny Greenwood
It was with some relief that I read Jonny Greenwood describe himself as an “old fa...
Music Documentaries
John Rubin
Some artists have managed to forge an entire career from their supposed ‘manic’ or...
Film Reviews
Nuri Bilge Ceylan
A convoy of three police vehicles winds through the moonlit hills of the Anatolian...
Werner Herzog
With wrongful execution of Troy Davis still fresh in the mind of many, along with ...
Album Reviews
The Futureheads
Long-standing four-piece post-punk legends The Futureheads have been making music,...
Lee Ranaldo
Lee Ranaldo seems to be in a wistful, if mostly content, mood....
The Shins
It is with great relief that Portland’s indie veterans The Shins are back in busin...
Willis Earl Beal
Willis Earl Beal’s press release contains a textbook post-Bon Iver backstory: home...
Graham Coxon
“In a manner of speaking, I am sentimental about my childhood - not my own particu...
Nite Jewel
Having already made one obligatory jaunt into the hissing lo-fi murk for her debut...
Cymbals
In 1976, Wild Cherry famously demanded that white boys across the world "played th...
Grinderman
In the wake of the now defunct Grinderman, which was essentially a condensed psych...
Mirroring
Mirroring is a collaborative project between Liz Harris (Grouper) and Jesy Fortino...
Lotus Plaza
This is the second release from Lockett Pundt, the Deerhunter guitarist....
Magic Castles
Magic Castles are a psychedelic Minneapolis outfit signed to Anton Newcombe’s (of ...
