joe rivers
Features
Keeping up with - and listening to - large amounts of new music can sometimes be a...
Album Reviews
Britney Spears
There’s a danger of sounding pretentious when describing music as “post-Gaga,” but...
Little Roy
Musician Earl “Little Roy” Lowe has been making records since the 1960s....
The Stepkids
So much music has been made over the past half-century or so that it’s impossible ...
Summer Camp
The phrase, “summer camp,” means different things to different people....
Laura Veirs
One of the joys of music is the thrill of discovery....
Grimes
On ‘Zoal, Face Dancer’, the third track on this record, Claire Boucher (who ostens...
Amanda Palmer
After a protracted and well-documented battle, Amanda Palmer is free from her reco...
The Phantom Band
Employing a cornucopia of instruments on your record can be a dangerous game....
Let’s Wrestle
From The Butthole Surfers’ ‘Hairway to Steven’ to Nick Lowe’s ‘Bowi’, album title ...
British Sea Power
British Sea Power have always been a better band in theory than in practice....
Pulp
The third of Pulp’s reissued trio of early albums is the most accomplished, but al...
Music Documentaries
Julien Temple
Whilst watching Julien Temple’s biopic of pub-rocktorchbearers Dr....
Live Reviews
The Hold Steady
If you know a Hold Steady fan (which you surely do), the...
Film Reviews
PIAS Comedy
At the time of writing, there have been no articles in the right-wing press condem...
