Issue 8

Dean Wareham - Galaxie 500
Also featuring: Mazes, Dirty Beaches, S.C.U.M & more...

Issue 8 of KATP launches are brand new look site, which hopefully should be much easier and smoother for you to navigate your way through. We also have album reviews from the likes of The Horrors, The Antlers, The Coathangers, Crystal Antlers, Washed Out and we cover several films and music documentaries from this year's Doc/Fest. We also dip into Seinfeld and Jonny Greenwood's soundtrack work again.

Features

1)    Tell us a little about the making of this record pl...
Galaxie 500: Dean Wareham (vocals/guitar) Naomi Yang (bass/vocals) Damon Krukowski...
Field Day 2011 Preview...
I think there is very little dispute over the fact that Primavera is now the great...
Mazes are in many senses 2011’s answer to their buddies Male Bonding - they have t...
After trying to track down S.C.U.M to talk about their explansive new record, we j...

Live Reviews

Arcade Fire
Arcade Fire’s rise to becoming one of the biggest bands in the world can be viewed...
Flaming Lips - Dinosaur Jr - Deerhoof
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Ariel Pink's Haunted Graffiti
Academy 3 is a pretty pokey venue, but there is still only a scattering of attende...
Chain & The Gang
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Clinic
Following the release of Bubblegum - Clinic’s unpredictably delightful fo...
Various
If you’ve ever read anything about Latitude Festival before, chances are you will ...
Warpaint
Fresh off the back of last night’s performance on Later with Jools Holland, Califo...
The Mountain Goats
Chief Mountain Goat, John Darnielle, is apparently quite ill....
Various
Note to the festival organisers - running a festival on Thursday, Friday and Satur...
Buzzcocks - Black Lips - Toro Y Moi
Friends of Mine festival recently debuted at Cheshire’s Capesthorne Hall, finally ...
Lou Reed - Mozza - Patti - Iggy & co.
Hop Farm’s line up this year read like a pop-punk fantasy football team....

Film Reviews

Michel Wenzer
I’ve always been strangely fascinated by documentaries about American prison life ...
Anthony Baxter
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Steve James
Between 2000-2010 there were 5,748 homicides, in Chicago alone....
Morgan Spurlock
 Morgan Spurlock’s latest self-proclaimed “docbuster” sees him exploring the incre...
Andrew Rossi
Andrew Rossi’s portrait of professionals working in uncertain times could hardly h...
James Bluemel
Watching this film on a Thursday afternoon was a brutal awakening of the senses....

Soundtracks

Bodysong (Best British Documentary at British Independent Film Awards, 20...

Music Documentaries

Lance Bangs
For a band that placed little importance on promoting themselves or subscribing to...
P. David Ebersole
Making a documentary about Hole that diverts attention away from Courtney Love mus...
Jeanie Finlay
Record stores are dying - it’s not a new fact....
Keirda Bahruth
The Bob in question?...

Mike TV

Something bad has happened… MIKE TV GOT ROBBED!...

Album Reviews

The Antlers
“Dreamy” isn’t necessarily supposed to mean “sleepy”, and after having read some o...
Battles
So here it is then. Battles’ massively anticipated second album....
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
This is the Bad Seeds’ tenth album and it plays like a weary boxer hanging on the ...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
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Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Imagine this if you will: you hear a nice Kylie Minogue duet on the radio, or see ...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Be it the emotional drain of making The Boatman’s Call, or successfully k...
Milk Maid
Following a couple of singles over the last year or so, Milk Maid have returned wi...
Crystal Antlers
Crystal Antlers’ final album for Touch & Go Records, 2009’s Tentacles...
Chad Van Gaalen
Multi-instrumentalist and multimedia artist Chad Van Gaalen’s latest release is a ...
thomas Tantrum
From the opener Tick Tock', there is a slick sense of groove on the album, tha fee...
Psychedelic Horsehit
Psychedelic Horseshit’s self-proclaimed genre, ‘shitgaze’, comprises of extremely ...
Dan Sartain
I know he specialises in the moody blues, but after a few listens to Mr....
The Coathangers
The Coathangers album is crushingly formulaic....
Washed Out
After the peak of “chillwave” over the last couple of years, it is no surprise aud...
Thurston Moore
As hard as Moore could try, it’s difficult to imagine that the Beck-produced D...
Thee Oh Sees
Around the Bay Area, centred upon the colder-than-you-realise San Francisco, there...
Kitty - Daisy & Lewis
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Let's Wrestle
Let’s Wrestle form part of the blossoming London DIY scene and have been a staple ...
Cults
To say this album has been hotly anticipated is an understatement....
The Horrors
The ‘80s have been very good for The Horrors....
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