rock
CD: Jack White - LazarettoSaturday, 07 June 2014
If they ever wanted somebody to make a sequel to Marty Robbins's Gunfighter Ballads and usher in a rockabilly revival for good measure, Jack White is the man. The 11 tracks on this new album - the follow-up to 2012's Blunderbuss - reek of rage, lust... Read more... |
Bo Ningen, Hare and Hounds, BirminghamSaturday, 10 May 2014
Tonight Birmingham was treated to a guitar fest of epic proportions, as the Japanese, Hawkwind-esque experience that is Bo Ningen hit town. Prior to the main event, we were treated to the boisterous thrash of The Scenes, who finished their set with... Read more... |
CD: The Horrors - LuminousThursday, 01 May 2014
Anyone who remembers the critical mauling that The Horrors received on the release of their first album, 2007’s Strange House, might be surprised to learn that seven years later, they have just put out a fourth set of new songs. Not only that, but... Read more... |
Celebrating Jon Lord, Royal Albert HallSaturday, 05 April 2014
Jon Lord may have tickled his last ivory in 2012, but last night his spirit lived defiantly on. The great and the good from both heavy and contemporary music gathered in his memory. It was for a serious purpose - to raise funds for pancreatic cancer... Read more... |
CD: Kaiser Chiefs - Education, Education, Education & WarSunday, 30 March 2014
By the time I reached “Coming Home” - the second track on Kaiser Chiefs’ fifth album, and the band’s "comeback" single - I was predicting not a riot exactly, but certainly a few snide comments below re: my knowledge of the Leeds lads’ back catalogue... Read more... |
CD: Band of Skulls - HimalayanFriday, 28 March 2014
Anyone who came across Band of Skulls' sophomore album, Sweet Sour, in 2012 would have heard the sound of a band that was more than conversant with the Led Zeppelin songbook but who had no intention of staying put in the early Seventies. The... Read more... |
CD: The Hold Steady - Teeth DreamsSunday, 23 March 2014
Thinking back, it was with 2010’s Heaven is Whenever that I stopped recommending my favourite band to the people who didn’t already get it. It wasn’t that it was a bad album – in capturing the world-weariness of the party band once the world moves... Read more... |
Reissue CDs Weekly: Tyrannosaurus Rex, T. RexSunday, 09 March 2014
Tyrannosaurus Rex: A Beard of Stars/T.Rex: T.Rex, Tanx/Marc Bolan & T. Rex: Zinc Alloy and the Hidden Riders of TomorrowReactions to these reissues are going be determined by what level of fandom the band's acolytes subscribe to. These are not... Read more... |
CD: Drive-By Truckers - English OceansSaturday, 01 March 2014
If English Oceans is the Drive-By Truckers finest album since 2004’s The Dirty South - and I’d argue that it is - I doubt it was intentional. A little time away; more of a partnership of equals between founder members and songwriters Patterson Hood... Read more... |
10 Questions for Drive-By Truckers' Mike CooleyMonday, 24 February 2014
For almost 20 years, Drive-By Truckers have been one of Americana's most consistent and enduring voices – and, since 2001’s breakthrough double album Southern Rock Opera, probably the quintessential southern roots rockers too. Formed in Athens... Read more... |
Prince, Shepherds Bush EmpireMonday, 10 February 2014
If you're looking for good vibes, you could do worse than watch people who've queued up for a surprise show by a megastar finally getting through the doors, having paid only a tenner. The buzz on the way into the Shepherds Bush Empire last night, in... Read more... |
Lloyd Cole and the Leopards, Shepherd's Bush EmpireSaturday, 01 February 2014
Last night Lloyd Cole arrived on stage with a similar suede-and-corduroy air to that of his Eighties college-rock hits. Yet something was different. Over the last few years he has developed a real gravitas. It showed in the lines on his face and... Read more... |
