Sgt. Andy (Is Going to Help Me) – An appreciation of XTC in five notes
1. It’s becoming harder and harder to take seriously announcements that bands are breaking up. The new economics of the music business call for most artists to be consistently ‘active’, [...]
Review: Lower Dens at Hoxton Bar & Grill
Illuminated by a moving projection of something akin to a fuzzy 80s tv screen, Lower Dens opened up last Thursday’s show with hypnotic aplomb, blasting the intimate Hoxton venue with [...]
Review: Still Corners at Dalston Roof Park
On Monday night, against a vertiginous and rain-soaked city-scape, London-based Still Corners played a show in support of their 2011 album, Creatures of the Hour. Signed to Subpop, their music [...]
Bear in Heaven – Hoxton
Bear in Heaven’s third album, I Love You, It’s Cool, released in April 2012 proved to be on first listen as non-committal and aloof as its title suggested. During their [...]
Blackbird Blackbird – at London’s Lexington
Blackbird Blackbird (formerly known as Bye Bye Blackbird) is the stage moniker of San Francisco’s Mikey Maramag. Right now, he is arguably one of the leading figureheads amongst a scene [...]
The Year Ahead: The National
Fresh from the close of their hugely successful 2011 High Violet tour, the National are embarking on projects of such great variety and multitude that they look set to be [...]
‘Winter’ – from Adam Donen and Roger O’Donnell’s ‘Requiem’
Footage from the premier of Adam Donen and Roger O’Donnell’s collaborative Requiem, performed by the Contrarian Ensemble in Shoreditch Church, 2 April 2012. Photo courtesy of Mikael Jaeger Jensen.
Burial – Kindred EP
Reclusive South London producer Burial has gained an almost legendary status via a series of top quality releases on Kode 9’s Hyperdub Records, but little new material has been heard [...]
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