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Features
Ex-WOD member Kurt Vile could have easily taken the role of success story of the y...
Sub Pop has just released yet another pop tainted infectious summer record in the ...
Live Reviews
Les Savy Fav
Tim Harrington is like a toddler who has recently learned to walk - you can’t take...
Best Coast - Spectrals - Mazes
Mazes’ debut album (reviewed in this issue) is a delightful summer romp that embod...
Stewart Lee
Last years ‘If You Would Prefer A Milder Comedian’ ranked as some of Stewart Lee’s...
Veronica Falls - Cloud Nothings - Nerves
The opening band Nerves are young kids....
Henry Rollins
Henry Rollins bounds onto the stage, he grabs the microphone, he wraps the cord ar...
Ryan Adams
As you take your seat in York’s Grand Opera House it’s difficult not to become eng...
Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard
Seeing Jeffrey Lewis & The Junkyard for the second night in a row, I expected ...
Soundtracks
Being a big time for Radiohead and Radiohead fans alike, we thought it somewhat fi...
Film Reviews
Pawel Pawlikowski
Ethan Hawke may not instantly spring to mind as the man for a lead in a quiet, sub...
Nick Whitfield
You may read about Nick Whitfield as being the “British Charlie Kauffman”, which i...
Tom Hooper
I approached this expecting a bombastic, sprawling period drama - after all, big i...
Polly Nash & Andy Worthington
It’s not often that after watching a film you get to encounter the protagonist in ...
Richard Ayoade
I approached this with a sense of restraint and a reserved nature; a staring role ...
Jerzy Skolimowski
What starts as feeling like a pretty conventional western-world film soon transfor...
Music Documentaries
John Rubin
Some artists have managed to forge an entire career from their supposed ‘manic’ or...
Jem Cohen
Never having seen Fugazi live has always been a great source of frustration for me...
Penelope Spheeris
The Decline of Western Civilisation III is the third and final instalment...
Stephen. C. Mitchell
The Kings of Leon have risen astronomically over recent years; since their explosi...
Jeff Feurzeig
There are few artists who embody the tragic and the beautiful quite like Daniel Jo...
Gorman Bechard
"Kinda Brilliant. Kinda Dumb. Kinda The Replacements." Reads the tag line for this...
James Bluemel
There are a lot of terms you could use to describe AJ Weberman: activist, critic, ...
Tony Palmer
A film literally lost for thirty years, ‘Bird on a Wire’ was originally (and begru...
BBC4 documentary
This could have been a riveting plunge into an era and label boasting a diverse an...
Gary Menotti
R.E.M.’s last live album worked so well for two reasons: firstly, it delved deep i...
Doug Pray
‘Hype!’ (1996) delves deep into the underground world of the Seattle grunge scene,...
Todd Phillips
In a cinematic sense, you expect as much as you can get from a music documentary, ...
Album Reviews
Cloud Nothings
Lo-fi: “the production or reproduction of audio characterised by an unpolished or ...
The Thermals
There is something undeniably charming about The Thermals, and I’ve never quite ma...
Thomas Truax
Sonic dreamer; what a fitting title - as while Thomas Truax has been reinventing t...
Fat Worm Of Error
In an ever-increasing world of cynicism and regurgitated ideas, it often makes cre...
thomas Tantrum
From the opener Tick Tock', there is a slick sense of groove on the album, tha fee...
Chad Van Gaalen
Multi-instrumentalist and multimedia artist Chad Van Gaalen’s latest release is a ...
The Strokes
This album was always going to go one of two ways: either the seething tension bet...
The Dodos
When attending last year’s Pavement-curated ATP, I was expecting to revel in the d...
Bob Dylan
In 2009 a collector named Jeff Gold found a tape box with the faint pencil scribbl...
Grinderman
When ‘No Pussy Blues’ was fist aired as a new Cave side project, it didn’t so much...
The Megaphonic Thrift
The Megaphonic Thrift may sound like a range of vibrators that could be found in ...
Tall Firs
Out Of It and In To It sees Tall Firs back to the grass-roots nature of t...
Archers of Loaf
It’s not difficult to see why Les Savy Fav personally asked Archers Of Loaf to pla...
deardarkhead
Another reissue as part of the Captured Tracks Shoegaze Archives here....
The Lemonheads
There was a discernable difference in tone to The Lemonheads' output once Ben Deil...
Girls
There seems to be a mammoth increase in bands returning to classic, or certainly s...
Crystal Stilts
From the get go there is a malevolent, sinister undertone to this record that cree...
