Issue 9
Crystal Stilts
Also featuring: Vivian Girls, Wire & more...
Our first fortnightly issue is here. A little smaller than our monthly but more relevant, we feel. This issue we consider mainstream vs. independent cinema, the album-by-album evolution of Wire, and chat to Vivian Girls and Crystal Stilts. Reviewed we have Field Day, Indietracks, Stephen Malkmus, Big Deal, and loads more. As well as this, we take a look at film and documentary, including Tree of Life to Kurt and Courntey.
Features
Some context: Quite common in the late 1980s and early '90s - especially within wo...
Since the first Electric Picnic festival was held in 2004, the phrase “I’ve always...
Live Reviews
Fool’s Gold - Ebo Taylor
If watching Ebo Taylor doesn’t put a big stupid grin on your face then there must ...
Various
Since news broke last week of the demise of Oxford’s Truck festival, the question ...
Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard
Seeing Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard for the second night in a row, I expected ...
Various
We couldn’t quite do the whole Friday-Monday outing for this festival, so we have ...
Various
Tramlines is a fledgling festival a mere three years of age, where Sheffield’s div...
Film Reviews
Alex Gibney
In the UK many may quip "who is Elliot Spitzer?", and perhaps rightly so, as for a...
Terrence Malick
I was cautious about raising my hopes too high for Terrence Malick’s latest offeri...
Music Documentaries
James Bluemel
There are a lot of terms you could use to describe AJ Weberman: activist, critic, ...
Nick Broomfield
Here, Broomfield takes his direct and confrontational filmmaking style to one of t...
Album Reviews
Beirut
This is the fourth album from the precocious Zach Condon, a man who spent his boyh...
Big Deal
The boy/girl duo has been a popular format of recent years: Slow Club, Sleigh Bell...
Laura Stevenson & The Cans
Following their 2008 debut, A Record, New York quintet Laura Stevenson &a...
Stephen Malkmus and The Jicks
Another album from the Jicks that comes with Stephen Malkmus’s calculated verbosit...
Icarus Line
Overblown albums by formerly creative and potent punk bands are disappointing....
Grimes
On ‘Zoal, Face Dancer’, the third track on this record, Claire Boucher (who ostens...
