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Releasing one album in 1989 ‘Dum-Dum’ before disbanding, the Scottish outfit could...
The phone rings and a voice answers “Hello?” in a slow accentuated Texas drawl....
The Megaphonic Thrift is a new band of Norwegians making a rather delightul racket...
Galaxie 500: Dean Wareham (vocals/guitar) Naomi Yang (bass/vocals) Damon Krukowski...
One of the states' greatest musical exports of the '90s are now back playing again...
John Darnielle, if you aren’t familiar by now, is the founding and fundamental mem...
Music Documentaries
Martin Scorsese
The Fab Four haven’t so much been studied or scrutinised over the years, but they ...
Joel Gilbert
Never heard of this music documentary covering one of the most surprising and fasc...
Nick Broomfield
Here, Broomfield takes his direct and confrontational filmmaking style to one of t...
Leszek Gnoinski & Wojciech Slota
Ahh, that ever familiar sound of Polish punk-rock....
Dietmar Post and Lucia Palacios
“You're a monk, I'm a monk, we're all monks!...
John Dower
Live Forever takes the viewer on a journey back to Britain in the mid-90s...
Vincent Moon
Vincent Moon has fast become one of the most authoritative music filmmakers in rec...
Film Reviews
Yonny Leyser
For all the mythologizing and romanticizing that has gone on around the beat write...
Joel & Ethan Coen
There are not many directors working at the pace that the Coen brothers are curren...
Antony Butts
For a forty-year period from 1949, the Soviet Union carried out an aggressive nucl...
Adam Low
A film within a film about a play within a play, in many respects....
Rickie Stern & Anne Sundberg
Show me a picture of Joan Rivers and I would know who she is, ask me what she did ...
Lynne Ramsay
Based on the hugely popular book by Lionel Shriver, we finally have here a film ad...
Paddy Considine
Paddy Considine’s directorial debut is one that holds a strong link to Gary Oldman...
Tomas Alfredson
The genre of "spy thriller" is not normally one that would send me running to the ...
Alex Gibney
In the UK many may quip "who is Elliot Spitzer?", and perhaps rightly so, as for a...
Dennis Dugan
Go for a walk, take a shit, run a bath, have a really good long hard think, read ...
Werner Herzog
With wrongful execution of Troy Davis still fresh in the mind of many, along with ...
Dominic Allan
Redemption is a prominent topic in many a film - both fiction and documentary - ho...
Darren Aronofsky
The hype surrounding this film has been of such magnitude it’s amazing the film it...
Sofia Coppola
In recent years there has been an abundance of films in which nothing really happe...
James Bluemel
Watching this film on a Thursday afternoon was a brutal awakening of the senses....
Live Reviews
Minny Pops
Opening proceedings are locals Jack & The Beanstalks, who are tonight playing ...
The Lemonheads
The Lemonheads were one of the first artists to take on the ‘Don’t Look Back’ seri...
Wilco
In the opener, ‘Art of Almost’, the whole band are immediately utilised, and as th...
Deerhunter
Deerhunter have crafted a career path so varied and dense that live shows now allo...
The Pogues
I have friends who still vehemently attend the The Pogues’ Christmas tours and ran...
Olafur Arnlds
Four pieces are performed tonight: Johnny Greenwood’s ‘P...
Various
We couldn’t quite do the whole Friday-Monday outing for this festival, so we have ...
PJ Harvey
When your ticket stub reads clearly in bold ‘No Support’ you know it’s for a reaso...
Soundtracks
In my humble and arguably warped view, this remains one of the greatest films ever...
Album Reviews
Wilco
I’ve always found the "American Radiohead" tag Wilco are often given to be a littl...
WATERS
WATERS is Van Pierszalowsk, previously of folk-rock outfit Port O’Brien. ...
Big Deal
The boy/girl duo has been a popular format of recent years: Slow Club, Sleigh Bell...
Lower Dens
I hate the whole “if so and so had a lovechild with x y and z and then dropped aci...
Arcade Fire
A lot of people have spent a lot of time writing a lot of words about Arcade Fire’...
Deerhunter
In my humble opinion, Bradford Cox is one of the most interesting people working i...
Elliot Smith
As soon as I saw the track listing for this, my instant thoughts were “what, no......
Bob Dylan
Writing about Bob Dylan feels like a fruitless task in many ways....
Labasheeda
Labasheeda stem from Amsterdam, but a listen to their record could easily fool you...
The Lovely Eggs
Oddly enough, for a band so seemingly unhinged, The Lovely Eggs are all about bala...
Radiohead
This is perhaps the least cohesive and structural set of songs that Radiohead have...
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
Imagine this if you will: you hear a nice Kylie Minogue duet on the radio, or see ...
Birdengine
Birdengine is Lawry Joseph Tilbury and The Crooked Mile, his debut album,...
Bill Hicks
If you don’t know who Bill Hicks is, I don’t really know where to start, just look...
Magic Castles
Magic Castles are a psychedelic Minneapolis outfit signed to Anton Newcombe’s (of ...
Lotus Plaza
This is the second release from Lockett Pundt, the Deerhunter guitarist....
Mirroring
Mirroring is a collaborative project between Liz Harris (Grouper) and Jesy Fortino...
Carter Tutti Void
A live performance taken from the Short Circuits Presents Mute festival at the Lon...
Rusty Bear
The opening ‘Source To Sea’ rattles into life with a shuffling drumbeat and bounci...
Electricity In Our Homes
Considering that Electricity in Our Homes have in the past been accused of being s...
Bitch Magnet
Bitch Magnet’s opening statement to the world is the first Star Booty tra...
Windy & Carl
‘For Rosa’ opens in a swirling fuzz of ambient crackle, as though someone on a dis...
Opposite Sex
There are not many albums that are recorded in only eight hours, and even fewer wh...
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Be it the emotional drain of making The Boatman’s Call, or successfully k...
